The missing secret ingredient

While shopping for wine for Myke & Pam for Christmas (I went with a chardonnay and merlot from Lindeman’s and … some other South Australian winery… anyway), I happened to find myself in the confectionary aisle – I know, truly bizarre ;) – and figured what the hell, I’d indulge myself slightly and go some… Read more

National Treasure 2

I went and saw National Treasure 2 last… Saturday? I dunno. It was pretty good; much what I expected, and very much in the theme of the first. The way Wilkinson magically turned into the martyrous good guy at the end irked me a bit; I didn’t buy it; I don’t think they conveyed his… Read more

Ants

For a few months now, there’s been a lot of little ants invading my bathroom. Mostly I realised this because they’ve been accumulating, dead, all over the floor. More recently, I also noticed live ones wandering around the basin. Even more recently, in the last week or two, they’ve invade my bedroom as well –… Read more

I Am Legend redux

Also, F1 had already read the book(s) upon which ‘I Am Legend’ is based (called, creatively, ‘I Am Legend’, I believe), so he knew more or less what the deal was. He noted though that in the book(s) the zombie critters were far less zombie and more just like evil, cannibalistic people. And the reason… Read more

Winter holiday

My plans for the brief Christmas break are still very much… intangible. As I think I’ve bemoaned previously, most people I know here are buggering off to all over the place to visit family and all that, which makes the prospect of a ski trip to Tahoe or similar – alone – rather unpalatable. On… Read more

Harold & Kumar go to Dunkin Donuts

Last night Ross, F1 & I sketched out the next Harold & Kumar movie. It starts out when two of our three protagonists come to believe there is a Dunkin Donuts franchise somewhere in the valley, towards which they set off, and many mad escapades are had. As it turns out, however, the nearest Dunkin… Read more

Back in the valley

I arrived back in SFO on Sunday. The flight back was pretty poor… I’ve had worse.. but then I’m pretty used to it by now. Anyway, that’s a story for another time; I just wanted to note that I’m back, and am going through my handful of photos. It’s a surprisingly large amount of work;… Read more