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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure - Michel De Montaigne Mrs.Chaos has always been excited about Korean food.  After we went to Korea she knew what it was like in it's original form for delicious Bulgogi and Kalbi.  We headed over to the Korean market in Sacramento and she was in heaven!  So we got all sorts of delicious marinades... mmm... Also we got beats like ribs and "pork butts" for delicious Korean BBQ.

After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many. - Glenn Turner I've been on a multi-year kick to watch all of the old Doctor Who episodes that my Doctor Who friends have told us we need to watch.  I have a lot of friends and there is a lot of classic Doctor Who so the list is long and many of the episodes are not yet available on DVD.  Yet I have this one very special friend, "huh?  Oh, yeah, I can give you all of the 80's Doctor Who not available on DVD.  I have old CDRs of them from VHS transfers." Modern Apple computers have very picky SuperDrives inside of them.  If you take a CDR that was burned over ten years ago and stick into a modern Apple there is about a 50/50 chance the computer will actually be able to read the disc.  Instead the computer will swallow it whole and hold onto it refusing to eject it.  Eject button?  No.  Disk Utility eject?  No.  Command line eject?  No.  In fact the only way to get a...

Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope. - Philippe Petit Book club finished up reading "Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann and had our nearly-monthly meeting last Friday.  The book?  Pretty good.  I really enjoyed reading (and by reading, I mean listening on Audible) it as it spanned a bunch of different stories in NYC that intertwine with one another.  One of the central stories that bound things together was that of Philippe Petit doing a tight rope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in NYC.  When I first started reading the book I assumed that the story of the high wire routine was fictional, like all the other stories in the book.  Later I learned that it was a historical even...

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. - Fridtjof Nansen Every year my company makes a pilgrimage from the office on the peninsula to Tahoe for a ski trip.  I've gone nearly every year, though not skied all of them.  This year was looking to be interesting and different.  The last few years that I've gone skiing there has been a beginner in my group, either a friend, or a coworker or Mrs.Chaos.  This year Mrs.Chaos' school schedule got in the way of making the trip and most of the coworkers I am good friends with have moved on to other places.  I had coworkers going, but many are from India and its their first time in the snow or they are on the exec team and so have do nothing but play in the snow all winter of the double black diamond runs.  It was going to end up being me going solo. This year we've gotten the long summer and there wasn't a winter.  There hasn't been snow in Tahoe the entire season and the...

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge. - John Sutter I really love Sacramento and like most people, I spend less time indulging in the city as I wish that I did.  It's the standard thought that people have who move to cities as and adult, "you know, I never go and see the local sites."  I was somewhat lucky to be a kid in this town and be able to go see Sutter's Fort, the Crocker Art Gallery, the Zoo, Safety Town, and dozens of other places on various field trips growing up. As and adult, I don't indulge that much in the history of this place and all the nooks and crannies around town.  Sacramento has an annual museum day where it opens up all state city and state museums for free entry to encourage us to get out and enjoy the town. Mrs.Chaos and I went downtown to see Sutter's Fort.  We part in front of the fort almost every weekend when we go swing dancing, but she had never been inside and I hadn't been there since I was in a grade sc...