nastily painted blue loo

Great long standing centertown restaurant, but couldn't you have spent
five minutes more painting the can? These lines are awful, and are
nothing of a reflection of the food... All I ask is some degree of
care in painting!!! Is that too much!!!

easy sunday comfort food

My cuurent lazy staple:
- reheated short grain brown rice
- thawed hot frozen peas
- good chunk of kimchi
- ground coriander
- glug of sesame oil

Mmm... am I weird, or just lazy.,.?

new table

With placemat overlap, and a mish mash of chairs, we are now ready to
seat 10, and have dine party affairs!!!

Cooking class @ LCBO

So much butter!!! I didn't think you could put so much butter in one
dish!!! The risotto by initial uncooked volume definitely had more
butter than rice. Tasty, but when you see so much butter go in it's
kinda gross.

Good class though, good chef, decent Ontario wines, and a good eve all
around.

before the Y fell, this was the best superliminal msg ever

As seen on Kent St., at the whalesbone's sustainability laboratory.

About #300 in line, apple store Ottawa, grand opening

This is why I've been too busy to blog - too busy waiting in line for free tshirt.

Fantsty loo

Apparently I'm high class now... No more nasty. To the gnocchi!!!

bite-sized

Me having an iphone has now lead me to believe everything is pretty much bite-sized in my internet appetite. I don't really spend the time to understand whats out there, or spend the time to look for and/or investigate ideas thoroughly.

I need to spend more time on the details i think. I'm lazy, and this needs to change. Bite-sized is better than nothing, but doesn't replace spending some QT with the old WWW.

don't let summer end so soon!

It feels like the first few weekends of the middle of spring, and soon summer, have just flown by. I have plans marked on my calendar for about half of the remaining weekends until september. I'm pretty sure i'm going to wake up one day, and it will be getting colder. Must hold on to the summer!! I know it hasn't/barely started, but i feel like its rushing away before my eyes... i have booked some time off end of july/early august which will be nice, but i think its going to be a constant challenge/goal to appreciate every moment of what is shaping up to be a beautiful summer of 09.

What has been keeping me busy?

• electrical work - i turned a "ya, we can put an overhead light in the bedroom" into a complete re-wiring of the second story of my house... i found knob n tube, its gotta go, attic induced back pain ensues and will likely become a summer theme


• work work - work has been VERY tumultuous lately, and likely not going to slow down for 18 months. I predict overtime, stress, highs n lows, precipitation is expected


• running - i've been running like a mofo lately, i'm running in the half marathon next weekend and have been training for about 11 weeks, avg'ing about 4 runs a week, about 40km a week total. I'm f'in tired!!!


• fambly times - i was outside of edmonton recently visiting fambly. Hit up some rural areas, hit the mall, hung out, it was really great, got to meet some family i've never met. I'd never want to live in edmonton, but its an interesting place to visit.


• tweeting - because of lack of time i rarely hit up google reader anymore, and get most of my info from twitter. I follow @techcrunch, @ottawacitizen, @pitchforkmedia and misc ottawa folks. I post more musings there under @mobob than here thats for sure, its just way quicker and more convenient from my iphone that carving what feels like a stone tablet (ie this blog)


• thinking about my prize - i won a prize over at the esi blog and i'm not sure which option i will go for. I don't want to be the cause of delightful banter and potentially unwanted attention so i don't think i'll pick the metablogging option, a recipe would make sense but doesn't seem exciting enough, so it'll likely be the topical one... just need an idea that would make sense and will get past their ethics committee and puddle of red tape - in fact, i think the esi's ethics committee of today would've poopooed the very raison d'etre of the esi's early days (ie metablogging the 5th muse)... or perhaps i'm being overly harsh

Go outside and breath its beautiful out there damn it!! Hang your clothes outside!!!

nasty loo - half assed hvac

I love this restaurant, so it's hard for me to show this. But they've
always (3+ years) had a hole in the mens bath ceiling, and there's
always been a towel stuffed in the vent. The rest of the room is
nice, but the ceiling needs a makeover.

One new ceiling tile would turn this nasty shitter into a 4 star pisser!

the rule of the half baguette

If it's only demi, it is acceptable to eat the whole thing for
breakfast.

Especially when it's a rye walnut baguettite from true loaf. So silky
and good, this awful pic does it no justice!!!

nasty loo - plastic baseboards

At least put some more glue on em!!!

This picture doesn't really do justice to how nasty this loo is. And
the bar it's in is pretty similar... It is beloved by those that
frequent tho, and that's precious.

No highs below zero

Now THIS is a forecast I support!!!

nasty loo - patchy tile

I'm feeling a little conflicted as I'd eat in this restaurant if I had
to wrestle tigers for a chance at whizzin into a bear cave, but the
plight goes on.

Why use the same tiles, when different tiles create an atmosphere of
diversity!

Stella avec

Lemon potato mash with prosciutto, and spicy sesame bean and pepper
salad. Yay impromptu!

nasty loo - exposed plumbing

This way if there's a leak, it's easily accesible. This is actually
just precautionary design.

This loo isn't ubernasty, but it's worth drawing attention to.

hockey time in Canada

I had the pleasure of attending the gold medal world junior game
tonight. I'm not a huge hockey fan by any means, but it was a blast.
If there's one thing Canada know, it's hockey. Transit strikes, and
hockey.

Happy F'in Holidays!!!

And a happy new year to all!!!

nasty loos

This is the first in what will hopefully be a long and intriguing
series that focuses on some interesting restaurant and bar bathroom
designers. This is one of the great luxuries my newfound connected
mobility affords!!

What we have here is creative lighting placement, and a bold decision
to not apply finish to the ceiling. Remarkable design!!

my iphone, 2 weeks later

Yes, it still totally kicks ass. Its amazing to have this ubiquitous device that i can use to extend my brain everywhere i go. Perhaps it will wear off yes, but i have to hand it to apple, i'm discovering something new everyday.

From my brother for xmas i got a ipod/phone -> rgb cable so i can stream the videos from it directly to my tv. Hopefully they make the api's available to developers soon to be able to do this. Then you'll actually be able to use the device as a controller, with the big screen being your game. THAT will be cool (its been done already, but not in an apple/eula friendly way).

Very, VERY happy. Best XMAS EVER!!!!!