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Best Alfredo Ever

January 14, 2007 03:40 +0000  |  Miscellaneous 1

I love my food, this is not news to those who know me. However, given the degree to which I love my food, I'm quite surprised that I don't blog about it more often. I suppose then that it is a testament to the fabulousness of this particular dish that I should mention it here.

I had what was quite possibly the best Fettucini Alfredo ever on Friday at a little place on Yonge called Lokshen Alfredo. Let me explain: Most people think of Alfredo sauce as creamy and boring, even tasteless, and for most cases you'd be right. A lot of restaurants don't know what they're doing and will often put a little milk and parmesean in a bowl and pour it over pasta thinking they've done it right. Nothing could be further from the truth. An alfredo should be aromatic, it should hug your tastebuds on the way down. Alfredo should be thick and creamy: not too thin and not too thick either and its flavour should sing.

Lokshen Alfredo is open 7days/week and is more or less deserted during the lunch hour. Dinners are usually ok, but on Friday you might need a reservation. I can't recommend them enough. Go to Lokshen. Go. Love their pasta.

Gmail Is Dumb

January 12, 2007 15:56 +0000  |  Geek Stuff Miscellaneous 1

Gmail has made my life painful today and I thought that I would share.

Gmail is kinda cool, in that they allow you to use their SMTP servers to send outgoing mail and it even supports encryption so I don't have to worry about the office admins reading my mail or anything. However, what they fail to mention (or if they did, I missed it) is that it re-writes all of your mail headers so that it's no longer using the original FROM: address.

So in other words, instead of getting mail from my usual @danielquinn.org address, people were receiving mail from my @gmail.com address and replying to that... so I've been getting mail for months and not knowing it 'cause I don't check gmail. I've since fixed the problem (there's a setting buried deep in their options pages.) so it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

So for those of you who were wondering why I didn't respond to a letter or two, that's why. Sorry about that, but I blame Google.

Spread The Bunny

January 05, 2007 06:22 +0000  |  Miscellaneous 8

Because I'm not feeling very creative right now...

(\__/) This is Bunny.
(=’.'=) Copy and paste Bunny onto your LJ/blog.
(”)_(”) Help Bunny gain world domination.
Spread the love.
But mostly, spread The Bunny.

You can blame Ted for this one.

Bow Down

December 23, 2006 02:01 +0000  |  Miscellaneous 3

Bow Down
Bow Down
Before the power of Santa
Or be crushed
Be crushed
By
His jolly boots of doom!

The Veggie Burger

December 20, 2006 15:43 +0000  |  Miscellaneous 7

As per my Meat Is Killing Us post, I ventured out into the vegetarian world yesterday on my lunch break. I decided that Milestones was a good place to start and spent about 10minutes looking over my options until I decided to order.

"I'm going to order something I've never had before", I told the waitress, "so if it turns out that I've left it all on my plate, I want you to know that it's not a reflection on the chef."

The waitress smiled, "alright, what is it then?"

"The veggie burger" I sighed.

"It's really good" she beamed, "I'm sure you'll love it."

The verdict on my first veggie burger ever:

  • Looks like cow
  • Smells like cow
  • Tastes like cow
  • Feels like soybean

Since I'm all about texture when it comes to food, I had a tough time forcing it down, but I finished it all... I just hope my choice for next week is better than this one.

Because Post-less Blogs Are Just Not Sexy

December 18, 2006 20:33 +0000  |  Miscellaneous 2

From Anna's Blog:

  1. Two names you go by:
    1. Dan
    2. Daniel
  2. Two things you are wearing right now:
    1. Jeans
    2. Napster Tshirt (bought pre-sellout thankyouverymuch)
  3. Two things you would want in a relationship:
    1. Faith
    2. Support
  4. Two of your favorite things to do:
    1. Write code at 3am
    2. Play video games at 3am
  5. Two things you want very badly at the moment:
    1. A few more days off
    2. A PS3
  6. Two pets you had/have:
    1. Syntax
    2. Stupid
  7. Two people who will fill this out:
    1. Noreen (if she hasn't already)
    2. Lara (maybe)
  8. Two things you did last night:
    1. Dinner
    2. Movie (The Pursuit of Happyness: meh)
  9. Two people that live in your house:
    1. Me
    2. My stuffed pig
  10. Two things you ate today:
    1. Eggs
    2. Starbucks Hot Chocolate
  11. Two people you last talked to:
    1. Aileen
    2. Julie
  12. Two things you're doing tomorrow:
    1. Anime Night
    2. Cooking dinner
  13. Two longest car rides:
    1. Vancouver to Ottawa
    2. Vancouver To Los Angeles
  14. Two favorite holidays:
    1. Montreal way back when I went to visit Annie
    2. Acapulco cruise
  15. Two favorite alcoholic beverages:
    1. Crispy Crunch
    2. Tootsie Roll

The IT Crowd

December 07, 2006 06:27 +0000  |  Miscellaneous 4

Jen Maybe it's all this stuff that you both eat... Ok Moss, what did you have for breakfast this morning?
Moss Smartie cereal
Jen Oh my god, I didn't even know Smarties made a cereal
Moss They don't, it's just Smarties in a bowl with milk

Quinn sent me a copy of the IT crowed, a British show about the isolated IT department in a dysfunctional company. ...it's frickin' hilarious. I should have gone to bed hours ago, but instead I watched all six shows he sent me in one shot...

Thanks Quinn, I do hope you'll send more :-)

Defy Gravity

November 30, 2006 14:06 +0000  |  Miscellaneous 1

I took Melanie to see Wicked last night and was very impressed. What a wonderful story! The music composition, the incredible talent and just plain beautiful harmony... It was amazing.

The tickets aren't cheap, but so worth it. You will never see anything quite like it.

The Gods Are About 4349.9 Kilometres Off

November 26, 2006 02:16 +0000  |  Miscellaneous 4

I hear that it's snowing in Vancouver today, while it's been nearly tshirt weather all week on this end of the country... tee hee.

Heroes

November 21, 2006 02:01 +0000  |  Miscellaneous 6

Save the cheerleader, save the world.

That is all.