I've recently discovered Sirlin's blog on game design and one line in a recent post jumped out at me:
"We were cautioned that we all suck too much to do this and it's mostly an issue for high level play."
Ah yes, I'm quite familiar with this, especially when the game is StarCraft. For an interesting read, check out his discussion on flux.
Now that we're more settled in and spring has arrived, we're starting to decide what to do with the yard. One thing that C's been clamoring for is a vegetable garden, so I spent a couple weekends building a planter box out of a couple wooden pallets. We got some free compost from Sunnyvale, some plants from a nursery, and we're now in the gardening business. We're starting with rosemary, thyme, mint, basil, tomatoes, and a couple Chinese vegetables I can't identify.
The box is 3'x3' and is based on the ideas behind square foot gardening. We'll see how well it works...
I was in NYC over a month ago and I'm still dreaming of a meal I had there! What I wouldn't give to have another pastrami sandwich from Katz's Deli. The juiciest, most delicious pastrami I've ever had. Mmmm...
Tried my hand at making ice-cream over the weekend. For my first solo attempt, I thought I'd try something a little different so I took a basic vanilla ice-cream recipe and added a twist: after heating up the cream, milk and vanilla bean, I steeped a couple bags of Mighty Tea's Marrakesh mint green tea before continuing on as prescribed.
I'm pretty surprised with the results, because the flavor of the tea really came through. So much so that the mint overpowered the vanilla, which was a bit of a disappointment. I like the idea of using tea to flavor food and will have to try it again.
We were driving home on Alma when I saw a guy with a baseball bat breaking a car's tail light. After a bit of indecision I called 911 and reported the incident. It was in broad daylight with lots of other cars on the road, so this guy clearly did not care about witnesses.
Twenty minutes later I get a call back asking me to confirm my description of the guy. Apparently they'd found him, and the car was his! The cops said that he'd been "unhappy with his car".
I guess that's one way to work out your frustrations with your car...
