Lots of Monkeys

Friday: Atomic and groovin with Nisa, Terrapin-Gardens and Yuriko Kinje
Saturday: “Work” (Hey–it’s in quotation marks.)
Sunday: Dim Sum and xXx

Uh, xXx is an enjoyable movie in the way that The Scorpion King is an enjoyable movie. Except I’d rank Scorpion King above xXx.

PraxisLoki: Well, there’s two hours of my life I’ll never get back again.
julietz80: Right, you’d have been wasting that time anyway.
PraxisLoki: I could have been playing WarCraft.
julietz80: Shit, you’re right.

Dim Sum at China Garden was a really good experience, however. I highly recommend the group experience. An engaging assortment of really good food for not a lot of money. I didn’t see a lot of veggie options, except for the turnip cake and the taro cake. So, for your carnivorous friends, it’s quite good. For your vegetarian friends, I’d have to go with the Vegetable Garden out near the White Flint Metro station.

Which is probably the next pie stop, if Nisa has anything to do with it.

Okay, just a strange sequence of words that more than likely have never occurred before.

Praxis Loki: your wife really has to stop sprinting from imaginary bovine predators.
Exploding Cat: well, it doesn’t happen every night. but if starts to become a habit, i’ll do something about it.
Praxis Loki: “NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH COLONOSCOPY!!”
Exploding Cat: goddamn! i certainly didn’t expect that.

I love the art of the segue. Subtle. Under appreciated.

Having studied the Japanese language and Japan itself, I’m not really surprised when I see, “wacky” objects, trinkets, characters, etc. from Japan. Hell, I own a Maracas Simulation Game. So it’s difficult to surprise me with something from Japan. Except in this case. I was totally amused. So amused in fact, that I’m going to devote my first Guinness on Friday to this character, in the hopes that he will come to the United States, and bless us.

By the way, this is the same company that is responsible for the droopy Panda.

Thanks to Rose for pointing the beer fairy out to me.

Did some volunteer work today, talking to some kids about the IT field. Of course, they’re interested in hacking things, so I talked about Social Engineering. I gave more than a few examples. jungfroid was there too. Telling the kids how it is in the cruel harsh world of IT.

jungfroid: “You have to know what’s wrong before you know what’s right.”
PraxisLoki: “Don’t you have that backwards?”

I can only hope that these kids are using that knowledge for good, and not evil. Just as long as they’re sitting in front of a computer tonight and getting more familiar with it, I’m happy.

I just want to sit here and listen. Maybe breathe.

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