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Mar 4 / 7:39pm

Chaat Challenge begins! (#1. Dahi Papdi Chaat)

Ok, not really a food challenge per se, but I wanted to try every item on the menu at Vik's Chaat Corner, located about 1/2 mile from work (no, not all at once).  I went with the #1 lunch special, which was Dahi Papdi Chaat.  Basically garbanzo beans + potatoes + spices, with yogurt + tamarind chutney + mint chutney from what I can tell.  I didn't particularly like it, but it wasn't bad either, especially for $5.xx.  I thought it was a little dry, only to realize that I was supposed to mix in the yogurt in the bowl.  Hoping tomorrow's dish is a little better.

P.S. Bonus points if someone can guess what book is under my keyboard.

   
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Filed under  //  chaat   food   indian  

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Feb 25 / 1:07am

Sandy needs a reconstructive surgery

Sad.

I was rear-ended on my way home last Friday - like the statistics say, it happened less than 5 miles away from home.  I was hoping to get the geolocation of the accident via my tweet, but it looks like Twidroid decided not to do it.  It was what I would describe as a garden-variety rear-end collision, and with the other driver admitting fault, things went fairly smoothly.  The only thing I have to pay out of pocket right now is about $6/day for a rental car, which I was told will be reimbursed by the other driver.  Even with everything going smoothly, it's still a pain in the ass to figure everything out, from calling both insurance companies several times, picking a body shop, and getting a rental car that sucks.  The whole thing was also complicated by the fact that the accident happened on a Friday, and none of these people work over the weekend.

They haven't told me what the estimate is, but I'm told it's under 15 grand (good thing I'm not paying for it)... and currently the estimate is 2-3 weeks of work.  Working from home was kinda nice these last 3 days, but it'

Fuck, just realized I left my BART parking permit in the car.  Good thing parkingcarma.com allows me to change the car and print a new permit easily.  Probably a bad practice in terms of security, but whatever.

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Feb 24 / 11:37pm

New jerrrb (meant to write this entry like 3 wks ago)

Started a new job at mog.com this week^H^H^H^Hmonth.  so far pretty good.  it's a bit of a change of pace, in that a lot of what I will be working on will focus on front-end ruby/html and not as much javascript any more.  The location is also kinda iffy - driving there sucks (~40 minutes), and it's 2 miles from the closest BART station (Ashby, and I have to take two trains to get there).  There are buses but that's $4/day - I found out they have shuttles, but the latest one leaves at 9am in the morning and 6pm in the afternoon.  At least this forces me to go to work early and come home early.

Filed under  //  bart   job   macbook   mog  

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Feb 8 / 9:14am

iPad beta SDK cannot compile iPhone apps for distribution

Learned this the hard way... if you upgrade your Xcode to the iPad beta (iphone_sdk_3.2_beta_with_xcode_3.2.2.dmg), you cannot compile iPhone projects in distribution mode, even if you set the target device to 3.0/3.1.  I'm not 100% certain what build configuration flag is causing this to fail, but it compiles just fine in my other configurations.  I just downgraded my Xcode to the latest non iPad version (iphone_sdk_3.1.3_with_xcode_3.2.1__snow_leopard__10m2003a) to confirm this. And to think I blamed this on OSX migration (which caused other equally brain-melting experiences, but I digress)...
Filed under  //  ipad   iphone   wtf   xcode  

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Feb 8 / 2:34am

Die Xcode Die

I swear Xcode has wasted tens of hours of my productivity... I will probably need to allocate 5 hours or so tomorrow night to reinstall OSX on this computer.  I hate you Apple user migration tools.  Fool me once, shame on you, fool me three times, fuck you.
Filed under  //  dev   iphone   rant   wtf   xcode  

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Jan 31 / 11:07am

Energy surcharge is bullshit

I get water delivery through water.com, and each month they tack on $2 for "energy surcharge."  I don't mean to single them out, but every time I see this it pisses me off, not just because of the $24/yr more I'm paying than their advertised price, but because this is scammy business practice that simply must stop.

Ever since the gas price spiked in the early-00s, companies with delivery fees have been adding this charge - which is fine, if you honestly believe adding this "surcharge" is necessary to cope with a temporary situation.  However, by now you should know exactly how much you need to charge to stay in business.  That means my water delivery bill should not show up as $25.99 and $2 surcharge, you should go ahead and fucking charge me $27.99 - and advertise this as your price.  The only reason companies would still have an adjustment/surcharge for an event from several years ago is either you are 1) incompetently slow to react to changes, or 2) unethically gouging me.  Which is it, water.com and a lot of other companies?

Filed under  //  energy surcharge   gas   rant   scam   water   wtf  

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Jan 30 / 9:54pm

Blast from the Past

Looking through old pictures, I found this from 2002-03-09

At Swivel I used to pass by this place a few times a month, on the way to the Ferry building for lunch.  I don't have that sweatshirt anymore, but I'm thinking about buying a new one and taking a 8-years-apart picture sometime in March.  That should be fun.

Also, I miss fishing.

Filed under  //  duke   flickr   muni   sf  

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Jan 27 / 1:59am

note to self: languages to learn

delayed new year's resolution learn these languages/platforms this year:
  • python
  • haskell
  • erlang
  • xna, ps3 platforms
  • lua

Filed under  //  language   note to self  

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Jan 16 / 10:55pm

postfix set up!

Trying to set up an email account at grizzlypanda.com so I can add it to LinkedIn... I was finally able to set up postfix on choibean.com (same apache instance), hopefully adding grizzlypanda should be easy.  I mostly followed the directions on linode.com while making some minor adjustments.  I also had to make changes to my MX record but I'm not 100% sure if that was necessary.  If this was a real full time job I think it may have been worth just paying $10/yr GoDaddy email account, but at least I learned something (kinda).

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Dec 31 / 2:25pm

done with the pre-teens in 10 hours

i wanted to coin the term pre-teens but i guess that's not happening :-p

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