Old Rocks

(This picture is only marginally related, but I love it. Everything is awesome about it. A creationist triceratops...obviously.)


Bucking the trend, something good came out of Alaska today: rocks.

in the air

Today was the first day when there was no heat in the sun. Winter is coming. The wind was blowing steadily all day and although the day was beautiful it also had that sense of something heavy in the air.

CERN

The collider is running.

Life is good.

Things are busy and exciting at work.  Today I worked from home.  I walked to Starbucks for breakfast and Phuket (Thai) for dinner.  The weather is perfect.  I have been working on music at home for the past couple of nights and it is wonderful.  I have found a new Pinot Noir I like for under $10.  My orchid is blooming on my desk at work (and a couple of my orchids at home look like they are getting ready to produce spikes).  I am going to Crescent Bar this weekend.  I paid the deposit on the house on Oahu I am renting for two weeks in March and April next year.  I discovered the band Architecture in Helsinki this week

Stereoscopy.

These are cool.

Japanese Street Food is Cool

Kushibar is a new "Japanese street food" restaurant on 2nd between Blanchard and Bell. Until now I thought "Japanese street food" was just something your girlfriend lets you do on Valentine's day and your birthday.

We had dinner there last night. It features a very large selection of grilled meats, fried foods and noodles in a great simple setting. We had fried oysters, fish cakes, spicy udon noodles with fish and grilled stuffed squid. All were awesome. They serve complimentary popcorn to you before your meal - with Japanese spices - and offer Sapporo in pitchers.

Seating offerings include communal-style tables in the dining room, two separate eating bars and a semi-covered outdoor section where you can sit at picnic tables and enjoy the people watching on 2nd Avenue. It was not crowded at any time on a Friday night from 6:00 to 7:30, but I suspect this is because it has only been open about a week. I picture Black-Bottle-style crowds in no time. Happy hour runs from 4:00 to 6:30 and includes a generous food menu and $11 Sapporo pitchers.

Kushibar is really the Japanese answer to the new gastro-pub trend and it is as good as any of the American offerings.

Awesome

I really do not get much involved in political matters (I do not vote), but this pro-life abstinence-only former-beauty-pageant broad with a pregnant daughter that McCain picked for VP is just too good to be true. The fact that her daughter's baby daddy is named Levi, attended an alternative high school and lists "shoot some s- - - and just f - - -in' chillin' I guess" as his pastimes is just too good to be true. I am just gleeful at the prospect of this guy being a guest in the White House.

Articles here and here.

Man...too funny.

selectron

I updated my music Web site with some old tracks. I am looking forward to adding new music in the near future.

Speaking of music, Bumbershoot was going on just down the street all weekend. Despite my best effort to find any acts I was excited to see, I only found Beck and he was playing at a time that did not work with the rest of my schedule.

Jaime and I went to my friend Jesse Hollowell's wedding this weekend, which was at The Canal in Ballard. It was a nice small venue for a wedding and the evening featured an open bar that turned out a sufficient number of Manhattans to get me dancing and a kitchen that turned out a sufficient amount of prime rib to keep me full. Jesse made us all laugh a couple of times during the ceremony and the recessional was "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey - it was a fitting marriage for my old friend. My good friend Nels was in town for the event, which made the weekend a little more intrinsically entertaining than average.