Hiz Biz Jonah!

Happy Birthday Jonah!. A shout out and all that!

Phat Lyrix from Jonah

Jonah had me download this and watch it. It's pretty funny. Keith Schofield / DJ Format reminds me of Monzy and his sick C++ lyrix.

Dec 25, 2005 Christmas Around the World at Epcot

This year, our families tried something new. We went to experience Christmas Around the World at Epcot. The best part was staying together and eating a bite in every country. We had German Bratwurst, French Pastries, Japanese Wasabi Peas, English Fish & Chips. All a good time. :) I drove for approximately 460 miles. It was fun and the best part is enjoying the holidays! So festive, so exciting!

VH1.com : Shows : Web Junk 20 : Main Page

Its cold up here in boston. I am looking forward to seeing VH1's Web Junk 20. Yay bad TV.

Congratulations James!

Congratulations to James on an awesome phD Thesis Defense. He just raised the bar just a little bit higher...

A Sparkly '06 for you

Wonderful Happy New Year, everyone! I was on South Beach, a little too close to the fireworks with my cuz Joyce, Dan, and it was fun and crowded. Thanks for all the Happy New year's wishes, everyone. Kudos to CRC and Binka. Binka sent me this link to her sparkling up the 06: smugmug - robertybinka : Sparkly '06

Happy Birthday Mako!

Nice Wikipedia entry. Thanks for all the Oden and Key Lime! That was cool!

goodbye, elwin! see you in dc.

here's a shout out to my man Elwin You had the funniest stories, and the best sense of humor! I will never forget your speech about the Gilmore girls, nor the passion of that last parting with your umbrella. you should really submit that story somewhere, it will have romantics, like me, swooning! So long, my friend, EZ E, and see you again sometime soon! At least we have your beautiful blog to stay in touch. We'll miss you and your hop-skip bounce sashay sashay Daily Dancer!

C'est la barbe!

Happy Birthday Ian!
c'est la barbe! Jim's friend Sailor Bob expresses himself beautifully. Arrrgggh!

Virginia's birthday Bash

Happy Birthday Virginia! We had a terrific time dining at Sauce, with Virginia. In attendance was her sister, Carol, who was visiting from Florida. The next day we went to celebrate with a yummy dim sum trip and also saw Harry Potter.

Dinner with Nick

Nick now has a nice car and lives in NY. Nick happened to be around Cambridge Cambridge Cambridge, so we ended up going to Gandhi to celebrate. Gandhi's in central square is one of the best places to go for an Indian dinner. I like their "complete dinner" because I always love the coconut soup, popadum, and galub jamun. Big thumbs up on the dinner. The leftovers didn't last!

Urban Oasis... soak it up

Take me to the Urban oasis! :)
Urban Oasis offers both Massage Therapy and HotTubs in a Feng Shui designed wellness center that provides the ultimate in relaxation. It seems that Boston finally has a real HotTub spa.

And Sometimes, the Island Is Marooned on You

It seems that there are nice floating islands out there, and a few folks like to keep them that way. Marvel at how surprising mother nature is, and how wild and large changes can occur through simple phenomena, such as plants dying. Floating islands in Massachusetts sure make you want to visit one, no?

Wollemia - the pinosaur

Wollemi from Michael Quinion's World Wide Words newsletter "MOST ANCIENT OF TREES Last Sunday, examples of that extraordinary
tree the Wollemi pine were auctioned in Sydney. The Wollemi is an
incredible rarity, a survivor of ancient times, the coelacanth of
the botanical world. It was found in 1994 in the Wollemi National
Park outside Sydney. Newspapers call it the "pinosaur" because it
has survived from the time of the dinosaurs 250 million years ago."
Awesome!

Happy Birthday Jim!

My most special person in the world! Happy Birthday!

Text-to-Speech

Text-to-Speech

Speech Recognition/Synthesis

Speech Recognition/Synthesis:great video of fluent speech. you can see what the tongue and palate do. kewl!

I feel great!

Thanks to all of you who made me feel special! :)
I feel great! xoxxo! I hope you all feel great too!

Yangtze River Restaurant

Because of the rainy weather, we decided to settle for a trip to the Yangtze River Restaurant in Lexington. I got up too late to go bowling, but it was nice to join everyone for lunch.
This is the second time I've visited, and I still think the food is only okay. Their lunch buffett was not good, and I am pretty happy they had a dimsum option. The had a dim-sum cart, but the dim sum was between good and mediocre. The experience was weird in that they had all the different dimsum food on ONE cart, instead of different carts. The taro cake was nice and soft, and the stuffed pepper was tasty. However, the cha-shiu-bao was a little hard on the outside (so I had to peel the skin), and the rice noodle was also hard (maybe it was too late in the day).
It was also nice because of the traditional foods (congee and fried dough), and Liwei, Mandy, Etty, and Dennis were great company. The desserts were really good, and I had my fill of coconut sticky rice, taro-coconut soup, tofu flower, tofu milk. The decor was nice, and the waitstaff spoke correct cantonese (which was NOT the case the first time I went there during the lunch crowd). I was suitably relaxed to because the waitstaff was very attentive, polite, and they seemed very professional. My preferred Dim Sum place is still Emperor's Garden in Boston Chinatown.

5K from Central T Running Maps A Google Pedometer

Walk, Jog and Run at Walk Jog and Run