rum, champagne, tequila, champagne, whiskey, whiskey, champagne, water, water, water...

good party, by all measures....except for vv's car getting broken into. :-(

aww man, anders loves maria has a really sad ending.

had a great night of drinking, dinner, and dancing to some sweet electro breaks. what more is there to want from a friday night?

in the past week i've gotten two random emails from strangers asking for details about code i wrote ages ago. one found my old college portfolio online and wanted to talk about image filtering, and the other found a post i made to the opencv mailing list four years ago and wanted a newer version of it. out of the blue, but kind of a fun little ( Read more... )

for some reason, i haven't been able to make myself go to bed before like 3am yet this week. i am not getting enough sleep. coffee is helping me along, but...there's gonna be some crashing this weekend i think ( Read more... )

i love being out of the loop, because then when i find stuff i like there's already like three albums out. the theme this time is chicks who rock. is it okay to say chicks there? i kind of feel like it goes best with rock. girls who rock doesn't have the same ring. hrm.

regardless, here are some tracks you should listen to. la roux - ( Read more... )

i finished watching season 7 of 24. it was better than my recollection of season 6, but still...oof. the upshot is that the sneaky bits are like watching games of metal gear solid, which is pretty dang cool. the downside is all the jingoist propaganda. every time they emphasize dead _americans_ it makes me cringe. i think you should have to do ( Read more... )

i've mentioned before, but my mom is getting close to the point that she won't be able to teach anymore because of her declining mental faculties. i'm trying to help her figure things out like early retirement and whatnot. the biggest question in my mind is health insurance, but i'm pretty out of my element. i have figured out that i can't get ( Read more... )

started today out going to the walt disney family museum in the presidio for a work morale boosting event. it wasn't all that exciting...i guess i'm just not all enamored with the magic of disney or whatever. oh well ( Read more... )

my first win with japanese food tonight. made miso soup and nikujaga nimono, and it was fantastic! the dashi is huge, i appreciate that now. the whole process took maybe an hour, but i can see a lot of ways to overlap stuff next time. also, kombu is really neat - i'm looking forward to trying the stews with knots of it ( Read more... )

sake and 24. aww yeah.

update: out of sake. time for cognac.