August 28, 2008 at 3:08 pm (Uncategorized)
What were you doing 10 years ago?
End of August 1998…I think I was in Canada, heading back to London, and Pieter was stranded in Canada with my parents due to an Air Canada strike.
What were you doing 1 year ago?
End of August 2007…Exactly what I am doing now, though my office was upstairs and I wasn’t so jaded.
Five snacks you enjoy?
1. Red Licorice
2. Pistachios
3. Top Kek Pöti
4. Gummi anything
5. .Grapes
Five songs that you know all the lyrics to?
1. Madame George- Van Morrison
2. We’re on the Road to Nowhere- Talking Heads
3. Don’t Go- Hothouse Flowers
4. Unbreak My Heart- Toni Braxton (D’s fault entirely)
5. Bongo Bong- Manu Chao
Five things you would do if you were a millionaire?
1. Eat at all sorts of amazing places all over the world
2. Travel, travel, travel
3. Quit my job
4. Build a house
5. Give a lot away to family and friends
Five bad habits?
1. I spend way too much time online.
2. I chew pens
3. I procrastinate like mad
4. Inappropriate temper
5. Swearing like a sailor at inopportune times
Five things you like doing?
1. Cooking
2. Reading
3. Listening to music
4. Dining out at nice places
5. Traveling
Five things you would never wear again?
1. Jelly Shoes
2. ?
3. ?
4. Those poorly fitting enormous things I used to wear when I thought I was really fat (but I wasn’t)
5. Acid wash jeans
Five favorite toys?
1. My mp3 player.
2. My Macbook
3. My camera
4. Larry’s duck clock (now gone back to St Louis)
5. Bit Torrent
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August 28, 2008 at 12:28 pm (Uncategorized)
Food Meme stolen from http://www.leftoverqueen.com/
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (does alligator count?)
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (Steve Usher’s banana and rhubarb and blueberry wines…)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn or Head Cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam Chowder in Soudough Bowl
33. Salted Lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a Fat Cigar
37. Clotted Cream Tea
38. Vodka Jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang Souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom Yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. 3 Michelin Star Tasting Menu
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose Harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole Poblano
96. Bagel and Lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake (sounds icky, but I’d try it)
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August 28, 2008 at 10:19 am (Uncategorized)
Tomorrow morning at 7am I must embark on a nifty little road trip to Ankara for my Last Ever DOS Meeting. I generally hate DoS meetings, as they tend to involve verbal abuse, tedious presentations about projects that never materialize, and a lot of condescention from various parties (who are all now oddly enough being quite kind since I announced my leaving). Even the tea and cakes served at breaktime don’t really make up for the loss of irreplaceable hours on my generally hectic timetabling Fridays. This one, however, will be my last foray into the wilds of Anatolia, so I plan to make it a super-fine road trip, with camera, mp3 player, and a sense of Road Trip Freedom coursing through my almost-there veins. Ankara isn’t exactly thrills personified but damn, at least it is Out Of Istanbul- something I don’t get to see much these days. Claire and Man-Joe will be there so with luck we can make it semi anarchic. Though I suppose attempting a bout of post meeting/pre-minibus anarchy during the first week of Ramazan in the wilds of Anatolia isn’t really the easiest thing to pull off. I’m not even sure any cafés will be open before iftar, or if they are, like the odd open one in Kayseri, we may have to make merry in the back room, curtained off from passers by.
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