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Here is a pic of the progress on rebuilding commons at USC.

Trip to Houston, TX (Part 1)

This past weekend I went to visit Jessica in Houston. I had a lot of fun and we ate a lot of good food. The first night I got there, Jessica took me to Sonic where I had my first Sonic burger. The burger tasted healthy but delicious. It reminded me of Fatburger, where the burger was not overly salty and had lots of veggies like lettuce, tomatoes, and pickles. We ordered classic drive-in style and ate in the car.

The Sonic Drive-In Menu and Credit Card Swiper

After Sonic, we went to a bar downtown called The Flying Saucer which, similar to Yard House, where they had over what seemed like 100 beers on tap. I tried the Texas sampler and the Colorado sampler. According to them, Colorado is "the Napa Valley of the beer world". One thing really cool about Houston I wish Los Angeles had was found on the freeway. In different lanes, they paint icons of what freeway the lane will lead to:

At a donut shop I got a kolache (or apparently the correct term is klobasnek), which is a delicious fresh baked bread bun with cheese and meat inside.

My Sausage Kolache

Hainan Chicken From Scratch

Back in January 2008, I made some Hainanese Chicken from scratch, and it came out delicious. The chicken is uniquely cooked by boiling chicken broth, turning off the heat, and dunking the chicken in the hot broth for 8 minutes, repeat 2 more times.
I wasn't sure what kind of dark sauce they use, so I used the Indonesian kecap manis, which is a sweet, thick sauce.
The rice was cooked with chicken broth instead of water, and mixed with half a stick of butter. Surprisingly, half a stick was the minimum to get the rice to taste how it should.

Gaja: Okonomiyaki in Torrance

This is from back in August of 2007, but Tony, Mike, Luis, Mary, and I decided to try a Japanese okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake) restaurant, and the closest one to Los Angeles was in Torrance, called Gaja. After a long drive, we spent about 2 hours eating here. Everyone but me got the okonomiyaki. I got the monjayaki, which is kind of like a watery version of the okonomiyaki. Their menu was enormous. I think there were around 20 pages. The food was was pretty good and it was fun to cook your own okonomiyaki at the table. Of course, to make this at home the ingredients wouldn't cost more than about $5, but the experience was fun.

Cooking Meat and Okonomiyaki

Front of Gaja

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Ebay is Old School

I just listed a few of my old games on Ebay, and I was using their WYSIWYG editor box, and then switched to HTML view so that I could attach an image. What I found out then was that Ebay still uses the deprecated font tag. This is what was there:

<font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial;">

Okay, if they are going to create a span and attach a style to it anyway, why don't they just add a font-size declaration instead of using a font tag?

Post from my N800

This is a test post from my Nokia Internet Tablet. Included is a screenshot I took from my NES emulator.

Healthy Choice Honey Balsamic Chicken

Mmm, the cold air outside in the morning reminds me of..... SKI SEASON! YAYAYEE!

I know I'm a huge Stouffer's Lean Cuisine fan, but yesterday I had the Healthy Choice Honey Balsamic Chicken because it was cheaper. And oh my. The Honey Balsamic sauce was so delicious. It was of restaurant quality. If you haven't had it yet, I highly recommend it. I need to see if I can get a similar Honey Balsamic sauce by itself in a bottle.