Any closet Starcraft 2 players reading this? Looking for folk to game with before opening. Potentially on monday nights post opening too...

I need to buy a new cell phone, because my current one is a total POS.

Has to be available for t-mobile. I don't care about or want to pay for any features beyond the ability to pick it up, make a call, and hear the other person with crystal clarity, but I understand that I may not be able to avoid the gewgaws.

Suggestions?

Would be incredibly, incredibly helpful to have the loan of a light meter, measuring lux or fc, for about an hour in the next couple of days. Union Square area, preferably, but could come to Davis etc.

Anyone?

Writing reviews calms me down. I hope.

This might be a good time to comment that I think the general tenor of my life affects how receptive I am to fiction - less how I perceive certain books, and more how ready I am to read and enjoy fiction in general.

[Rats and] the Ruling Sea seemed to me to drift a little in comparison to its superb ( Read more... )

Posto in Davis is absolutely not overhyped. The food is very, very good, and the wine list is pretty awesome. Tripe and calamari in particular were fantastic. Long wait, no reservations, so go either early or late. The neighborhood should be happy to have them ( Read more... )

uh... holyfuckwejustgotapacojet.

Thanks, ebay!

There's a famous Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong, called Yung Kee. We're talking first hit on Google famous, in a city where, due to the preponderance of homophones in mandarin, you can reasonably expect any given restaurant name to be used in at least a hundred locations. In the most expensive real estate market in the world, they have their own ( Read more... )

At 7 on a Saturday morning, the city is tolerable. People who are awake need to be, and you can walk, instead of threading your way through people like a snake between rocks. We're staying in one of the older parts of Hong Kong island - one that's not been rebuilt as recently as the radiant towers in the main business district. The hodgepodge of ( Read more... )

( As you might expect, this is somewhat lengthy. But there are pictures! Or at least links to google streetview! )

So we just realized that we need approximately 2 cubic yards of wine/beer corks for the restaurant project. In spite of our best efforts, we just don't drink enough that we'll have that by May. If you have nothing better to do with your corks, we'd greatly appreciate it if you would set aside a jar in your home, and just start chucking corks from ( Read more... )