A Casino Odyssey
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Which Olsen twin are you?
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I’ll be back later with the juicy details of this weekend.
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Sorry, I’ve been a terrible blogger lately. If my lj were a kid, I’d be arrested for neglect.
On Thursday, I leave for Florida for my second cousin’s wedding! I’ll get to golf and see family. Yay!
So, here’s a run-down on the Matt visit:
1.) I saw Ben Stein at the Watergate. I wanted to say “hi” or something, but I’m too much of a wuss 
2.) I got to play some more Ferrari F355 Challenge at Dave & Buster’s. It’s the coolest racing game ever! It has a clutch and manual shifter!
3.) It was an excuse to finally try some new restaurants.
4.) I finally saw Kill Bill vols. 1 & 2. I bought the first one on DVD the night it opened, and then we saw the midnight showing of vol. 2. Very good movies! (and oh yeah, Uma is hot!)
That’s about it.
So anyway, it’s been a relatively relaxing week. Got to catch up with my local friends (finally saw Matchstick Men - was OK) and ate at a cool place with my parents. It is called the Flat Top Grill and is just across the street. If you’re in Minneapolis, you should eat at Khan’s Mongolian Barbeque - Flat Top is similar, only it tries to be trendy and upscale, whereas Khan’s is good old stir fry (with more buffet options).
I finally have my own internet connection, but I can only use one computer at a time on it, as I have no router set up. I could go home and resurrect The Beast (a crappy old computer from 1995) or I could buy a fancy new Airport Extreme base station. Hmmmm… Actually, I bet a first-generation Airport would be just as good configuration-wise. Hmmmmmmmmm….
Some ‘fads’ around here are Thai food or Pho. A bunch of Thai restaurants have sprung up. You’re not cool unless you’ve had Thai food! I’ll have to try it some time.
Pho (pronounced, “fu”) is, as far as I can tell, some kind of Vietnamese soup with a bunch of stuff in it. I suppose I could look it up….OK, it looks like Pho is basically a step above Ramen.
I have been to The Queen Bee - a Vietnamese restaurant. They had some wicked pork that tasted like beef jerky, yet very tender; amazing orange chicken; and fish that had a sesame chicken-like sauce that was also incredible.
There is a Kirspy Kreme factory not too far away. I’m awfully tempted to go one morning. From what I hear, if you go in the morning while they’re still making the donuts, they will serve you donuts straight off of the donut-making machine’s conveyor belt. They are allegedly very warm, gooey, and delicious.
All this talk about food. You’d think I’m starving, but I guess I really have nothing else to talk about. I guess that happens when all I eat is pita and hummus and soup and the occasional Stouffer’s french bread pizza.
OK Quiz
1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
“these common properties: the pathnames used for identification, the flags specified”
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?:
My monitor (hooked up as a second monitor to my laptop).
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?:
NCAA Tourney
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is:
8:30
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
8:21 too early!
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
Nothing….I’m one of two people here.
7: When did you last step outside? what were you doing?:
Wen I went to work this morning.
8: before you came to this website, what did you look at?:
Chad’s page via Net Newswire Lite (it browses all my websites for me).
9: what are you wearing?:
Pervert! Jeans and my green plaid shirt, tan Vans.
10: Did you dream last night?
Not that I remember.
11: When did you last laugh?
Last night when Schenschure(sp) clobbered a guy from UConn.
12: what is on the walls of the room you are in?:
A bulletin board holding CDs, a dilbert strip in reference to how freakin cold it is in this room, and a post card from Des Moines; a ColdFusion poster. My office mate has a white board, a bulletin board with stuff on it, and pictures of Venice.
13: Seen anything weird lately?:
I saw a commercial for a Pontiac GTO that featured a song from the two CDs I bought that were the same (”The Hut on Fowl’s Legs” - from Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussourgski.
14: What do you think of this quiz?:
Yet another quiz.
15: What is the last film you saw?:
The Ladykillers - very good!
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:
I would raise a small army and take over a third world country and call it “Sam Hill.” Then I can run a tourism ad campaign and my slogan will be “What in Sam Hill is going on?!” and then I can list all of the neat attractions available.
17: Tell me something about you that I don’t know:
Who are you? Well, you probably don’t know that I am drinking a Coke right now.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
I would level L.A., just because they think they’re so cool. 
19: Do you like to dance?:
No.
20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?:
Which Bush? W. has his plusses and minuses, but he’s definitely better than Clinton. We really did need to deal with Hussein, Ghaddafi, the Taliban, etc. Invading Iraq was the right show of force at the right time. Now, instead of blowing up the Sears Tower, the islamic militants are too busy fighting our troops half way around the world (which is what are troops are supposed to do, protect us, right?). Too bad a few European countries were too worried about getting rich to help us out.
21: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?:
My daughter.
22: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?:
My son.
23: Would you ever consider living abroad?:
When do we leave?
24: Will you pass on this survey?
Not actively.
Heeeere Piggy Piggy!
Brick Top: You’re always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.
Sol: Would someone mind telling me, who are you?
Brick Top: And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it’s no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig.”
