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Lulu is already for tomorrow's hike!
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Lulu is already for tomorrow's hike!
16 years ago
Who are you, Jeremy?
Over a year ago I started receiving a steady stream of e-mails offering me products to enlarge a certain bodily appendage that I don't have. This confused me a little as I thought most spam e-mails were at least gender-targeted and I wasn't sure why I was listed on these lists as a male.
And then came an onslaught of pharmaceutical offers for a magic pill that aids the functionality of said appendage. I dismissed it all as regular spam and didn't think much about it. I spent a good few months opening up all of the marketing e-mails to officially unsubscribe and mark as spam in efforts to clean up my inbox. I did a pretty good job, I've had my Yahoo! account since my first year of college and I get relatively little spam delivered to my inbox though my spam folder gets pretty ridiculous.
So today as I was waiting for a confirmation e-mail, I took a gander through my spam folder in search of it and found a TON of e-mails addressed to Jeremy L or Jeremy L Ortega. Someone must have opted me in to some sort of spam list as Jeremy L, inadequate male, which apparently is the root of over 60% of my spam. I am extremely annoyed that I am sharing my primary inbox with this unknown Jeremy, and will continue to curse him under my breath whenever as I unsubscribe myself off as many lists as I can.
A note on the origin of spam:
It is widely believed that the term spam is derived from a sketch of the BBC TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus. The sketch is set in a cafe where nearly every item on the menu includes spam luncheon meat. (A reference to British rationing during WWII where spam was one of the few meat products that was widely available) A waiter recites the spam-filled menu and a chorus of Vikings drowns out all conversations with a song repeating "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM...", hence spamming the dialog.
Then in the 1980's, the term was adopted to describe abusive users who frequented BBSs who would repeat "SPAM" a huge number of times to scroll other users' text off the screen. Coupled with the slow phone-modem connections of the early internet days, this large, scrolling, irritating, meaningless block of text started to be called spamming. And that is how spam came to be known as excessive multiple posting of the same message.
And then came an onslaught of pharmaceutical offers for a magic pill that aids the functionality of said appendage. I dismissed it all as regular spam and didn't think much about it. I spent a good few months opening up all of the marketing e-mails to officially unsubscribe and mark as spam in efforts to clean up my inbox. I did a pretty good job, I've had my Yahoo! account since my first year of college and I get relatively little spam delivered to my inbox though my spam folder gets pretty ridiculous.
So today as I was waiting for a confirmation e-mail, I took a gander through my spam folder in search of it and found a TON of e-mails addressed to Jeremy L or Jeremy L Ortega. Someone must have opted me in to some sort of spam list as Jeremy L, inadequate male, which apparently is the root of over 60% of my spam. I am extremely annoyed that I am sharing my primary inbox with this unknown Jeremy, and will continue to curse him under my breath whenever as I unsubscribe myself off as many lists as I can.
A note on the origin of spam:
It is widely believed that the term spam is derived from a sketch of the BBC TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus. The sketch is set in a cafe where nearly every item on the menu includes spam luncheon meat. (A reference to British rationing during WWII where spam was one of the few meat products that was widely available) A waiter recites the spam-filled menu and a chorus of Vikings drowns out all conversations with a song repeating "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM...", hence spamming the dialog.
Then in the 1980's, the term was adopted to describe abusive users who frequented BBSs who would repeat "SPAM" a huge number of times to scroll other users' text off the screen. Coupled with the slow phone-modem connections of the early internet days, this large, scrolling, irritating, meaningless block of text started to be called spamming. And that is how spam came to be known as excessive multiple posting of the same message.
Roscoe's!
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After:
Today I had a major, random craving for Soul Food. Not sure what it was (might've been some random tweets) but I had fried chicken on my mind and it would not leave me alone!
Max and I headed out to Roscoe's after work. He had the SCOE'S combo drenched in gravy and I had the Country Boy. We added some biscuits and mac&cheese on the side.
It was heaven for all 5 minutes it took me to inhale my entire plate. I paid for it with indigestion for the rest of the night.
After:
Today I had a major, random craving for Soul Food. Not sure what it was (might've been some random tweets) but I had fried chicken on my mind and it would not leave me alone!
Max and I headed out to Roscoe's after work. He had the SCOE'S combo drenched in gravy and I had the Country Boy. We added some biscuits and mac&cheese on the side.
It was heaven for all 5 minutes it took me to inhale my entire plate. I paid for it with indigestion for the rest of the night.
Lenka @ UCSD
So we finally all drove down to visit Vina (not my first time, like others) to spend the day at the San Diego Wild Animal Park and watch a Lenka concert at the UCSD campus.
We started at Sushi Ki where Vina treated us to a very yummy lunch. She had always mentioned how the restaurant she worked at was Korean owned and ran so we weren't expecting much in the taste department -- I've had my share of pretty bad Korean-ized sushi with pickled stuff inside the rolls. But I have to say -- this was pretty yummy! I had some yellowtail collar (my favorite!) and the chef made us a salmon skin salad which was so good. I've never had salmon skin before!
The sushi chef got a kick out of the fact that we were all sisters ("ALL sisters?") and her friend/other waiter kept trying to get us to drink sake with our lunch. Hello! A little early?
After a long day outdoors at the Wild Animal Park (more on that later), we grabbed some hot dogs and headed to UCSD for the concert. Vina made a stink about not realizing that she could have gotten in for free because she was a student (duh!) but was able to secure tickets for the rest of us at $10 a head.
We spent the 20 minutes standing in line taking pictures of the venue and each other on our iPhones.
And then in the Loft we went, waiting for the first band to take the stage. I was kind of excited but the buzz was instantly killed when Army Navy took the stage and started playing way too loudly and whining into the microphone. Max, Yona and I couldn't take the noise and opted to stand near the back for their set. It was a good call too, otherwise we would have been deaf like Vina and Aai who stayed in their spots about 10 ft from the stage.
After about 25 minutes of noise, Lenka finally took the stage with her celeb look-a-like band. She played some new and old songs in addition to the favorites from her album. It was a lot of fun and she's such a great performer! It was nice to see her fully in her element, something she didn't get to do when performing with the other girls at Hotel Cafe.
It was cool to be in such a small and intimate venue although I have to say I was completely irked by the audience in front of me at times. There were a handful of girls that kept taking repeated pictures with their digital cameras (flash on) that were very distracting. They literally snapped a pic every 10 seconds, reviewed it in failure, and kept trying again. If you keep the camera on the same setting, no matter how many times you take the picture you'll get the same result! Augh. So annoying.
We started at Sushi Ki where Vina treated us to a very yummy lunch. She had always mentioned how the restaurant she worked at was Korean owned and ran so we weren't expecting much in the taste department -- I've had my share of pretty bad Korean-ized sushi with pickled stuff inside the rolls. But I have to say -- this was pretty yummy! I had some yellowtail collar (my favorite!) and the chef made us a salmon skin salad which was so good. I've never had salmon skin before!
The sushi chef got a kick out of the fact that we were all sisters ("ALL sisters?") and her friend/other waiter kept trying to get us to drink sake with our lunch. Hello! A little early?
After a long day outdoors at the Wild Animal Park (more on that later), we grabbed some hot dogs and headed to UCSD for the concert. Vina made a stink about not realizing that she could have gotten in for free because she was a student (duh!) but was able to secure tickets for the rest of us at $10 a head.
We spent the 20 minutes standing in line taking pictures of the venue and each other on our iPhones.
And then in the Loft we went, waiting for the first band to take the stage. I was kind of excited but the buzz was instantly killed when Army Navy took the stage and started playing way too loudly and whining into the microphone. Max, Yona and I couldn't take the noise and opted to stand near the back for their set. It was a good call too, otherwise we would have been deaf like Vina and Aai who stayed in their spots about 10 ft from the stage.
After about 25 minutes of noise, Lenka finally took the stage with her celeb look-a-like band. She played some new and old songs in addition to the favorites from her album. It was a lot of fun and she's such a great performer! It was nice to see her fully in her element, something she didn't get to do when performing with the other girls at Hotel Cafe.
It was cool to be in such a small and intimate venue although I have to say I was completely irked by the audience in front of me at times. There were a handful of girls that kept taking repeated pictures with their digital cameras (flash on) that were very distracting. They literally snapped a pic every 10 seconds, reviewed it in failure, and kept trying again. If you keep the camera on the same setting, no matter how many times you take the picture you'll get the same result! Augh. So annoying.
Fresh Guacamole
One of the first things we tested with our new blender was some fresh guac in a kit from Trader Joe's. The package comes with one of everything you need: tomato, avocado, lime, jalapeno, shallot and some peeled garlic. All you have to do is chop and dice, and then put it in the blender for about 30 seconds and we had us some fresh guacamole. Mmm.
