I need to do some serious interior decorating…
perilous pier
On Christmas day Beverly invited me to hang out with her and her father. Despite winds as fast as 50mph on the street and 100mph in the hills our only option was to go to the beach. So, after eating leftovers from the party the night before we headed to Venice beach. We braved the […]
andrew and eve
On Christmas Eve I was one of the (must be) 1% of Americans with an office job that actually had to show up for work. Afterwards I went to Beverly and George’s Christmas party. Nick (her coworker), Justin and Shirley (George’s girlfriend) also came. We played rock band and Scene It, interrupted by a feast […]
one day soon…one day
Last night I had some of the best chinese food (not home cooked) ever at Hop Li’s in West Los Angeles. The orange peel chicken is most excellent as is the curry “soup” (thick enough to eat as a regular dish) and even the seafood soup was well done with finely fried fish filet. A […]
Mi Cash
Sunday I met up with Beverly and her father at Mi Piace (warning – their website tries to hijack your screen… twice!) in Pasadena. We were joined by three of her friends from high school. The food was good, but in small quantities. The restaurant tries to sell itself as a high class Italian restaurant/lounge/bar. […]
Music Market
Saturday (the daylight) was mostly spent dealing with one bad customer service experience that I’m not at liberty to mention just yet. In the midst of waiting for returned phone calls I decided to do a Dell chat to fix my issue with Vista Aero. For whatever reason – Aero had not worked when I […]
Who donut?
Thursday night I attended the United Kingdom Trade and Investment division holiday party at the Punch Grill. It was a themed party where everyone had to solve a murder and played a character the whole night. What I knew ahead of time and nobody else did was that my character (a high class attorney about […]
Mackle Jordan
“Mack” Xu played amateur basketball for 19 years in China while following the exploits of American NBA players on television. He even borrowed part of Michael Jordan’s name when deciding on an English name when all Chinese businessman started to need them. For half his life (which means about thirty years) he had a dream […]
Gettin’ there
Saturday I joined Beverly and her father for a trip to the Getty Center. I’d been there many times before – but never in the winter. The changing exhibits were all video installations (which we all agreed were a waste of time). In one of the buildings there was a “classroom” setting where “students” could […]
technologic
Those of you that have ever talked to me about technology know my opinion on where computing is going. What my position is is that from a software/OS point of view we will no longer be bound to a “computer” but simply log in to “virtual” machines from any machine connected to the internet. This […]