Why is it I am the only adventurous one in my circle of friends?

My friends are the widest-ranging group of people I know. Ive got motorcycle riding daydreamers & hard-nosed republicans. Literary savants & idiot savants. Black, white, male, female, gays, straight, married & single, I have alot of friends each with different personas and likes & dislikes. So why is it, out of the some 40 people I know, only maybe 2 people enjoy sushi?



Sushi originated as a way of preserving funa (a fish). The fish was salted and allowed to mature on a bed of vinegar rice, after which the rice was discarded. Before long vinegar rice came to be eaten together with the fish and then other ingredients. Thus the word sushi was derived. Alot of people think its raw because many sushi varieties are prepared using some type of fish or seafood and the raw part just happens to stick in peoples mind. Sashimi means raw fish. But sashimi is also extremely good.

C'mon people, let's all live alittle. Here, I found a few guides and bits of information for you to study incase you want to be adventurous the next time you are stumped as to what to eat. After all, McDonnalds looses its novelty after One Billion Served. If you do manage to try it, watch this video first to get the jist of proper sushi etiquette. Hell, print out a text version of any of the above and take it to the restaraunt.

If you want my advice for finding a good restaraunt, ask people you know if they have been to any good places in town. Good food and experiences keep people returning to one restaraunt. I try not to go to a restaraunt based on travel guides or internet databases unless its been updated recently. Old information means one of two things: Menu selections & foods might have changed and quite possibly food quality might now be an issue. No news is often bad news when looking at food.

Also, sit at a table instead of the bar the first few times you go unless you go to a bar with a friend. It's more comfortable to the American-cultured diners to sit at a table and order from a menu. Also, for the first-timers, menu's give pictures along with explinations of what comes on a plate. Often times, if you go for lunch or dinner, the menu will have special combination plates or specials on food groupings. Stay away from the little placecard menu they will hand you, often times you will over order and will have to take sushi home with you. Most importantly, you will pay more for your food that way than on a menued item.

I hope this encourages some of you to try it. I have been wanting to go out to a sushi bar for at least 2 weeks now. Problem is, its not often other people are in the mood for sushi.

Live alittle, voyeurs!

STRANGE FINDINGS FROM THE INTERNET XXXVIII

Ok, Ive been cruising the internet now for some 6 years. Ive heard and read some pretty proposterous stories untill I read about the earth is getting darker. Yeah, thats right darker. Maybe its explaining a rash of trailer-trash related urban sprawl. The only thing I can think of is they aren't seeing the hideous messes they are creating in their environment. The interesting thing is I have actually seen this one. Its out there near Mustang Island in Corpus Christi.

When I was bored in elementary school and all thru high school, I would make paper airplanes. Elaborate and odd shaped, they actually took flight. I also learned how to make an oragami frog. How many trees were slaughtered for these people to figure out how to make obscene oragami? Kinky yes, but what happens when... what if they get... Fluids... Um...

Sort of in the theme of school, I remember watching Sesame Street and seeing time lapse photography & extremely slow film effects. Im addicted to this site and strangely wanting a cookie and a nap.

Yep. More art. Don't freak out, its just Russian art. Look hard at it. Soilent Green at its best.

This is more of my kind of art. Modern Ruins is just so haunting in its beauty. Each and every picture you can imagine the person who used to be in that location, the sounds and at times the smells. Ive got a digital camera, I want to find places like that here in town just for my own personal collection.

I know this collection isn't related to the above collection, but they are equally haunting especially when you view the Boat Yard series from Modern Ruins.
There is alot of text to scroll thru, but well worth it...

Enjoy voyeurs.

I dont get it, lets see if you do...

Its no mystery that Corpus Christi is my adopted home, so when news breaks involving the city, I will take notice. Ive got close friends who live out there so it matter to me what happens out there. While meandering around the house on friday, news broke about a truck that hit one of the bridges leading to the Harbor Bridge in downtown Corpus.

Harbor Bridge

Sadly the driver was killed, and it also seriously affected the surrounding areas with nightmarish traffic snarles. Check out the kind of dammage done (click on video option)...


So obviously as I watch the video about the accident (thanks to KRIS TV) I notice some of their other headlines. Storms are almost everyday occurrences in Corpus and the surrounding areas (Houston, San Antonio, Austin, etc.) and lately, they have been hitting with some strong force. KRIS reported about the delays brought on by the rains this past friday, listen carefully to what is said in this report (click on video option).

Call me crazy, but if you call yourself Corpus Christi International Airport, you'd think there would be facilities to entitle you to be a true International Airport with screening areas and INS stations. That just struck me as odd.

Travelers...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday dear Ev,
Happy Birthday to you.

The latest in 'Gotta Have It'

Sony has made an absolute killing when it comes to their consoles. Starting back in 1997 when their first system hit the markets, the Playstation was the industries first commercial success utilizing a CD ROM based game instead of the then common cartridge style game snap-in. Sony's success was a far cry from SEGA's complete failure and utter demise following their attempt years earlier with the SEGA CD. Utilizing the SEGA Genesis as a base, the SEGA CD attatched to the side of the system and used CD Roms for games. However, their cost for such a system was at an unheard of $500 for the system and nearly $80 for games.

One market Sony had its eyes on for the longest time was the handheld market. Nintendo's Gameboy has been the reigning leader in the market since its inception back in 1989, and its many upgrades and its nearly thousands of games kept it ahead of Atari & SEGA. The Manx (an ultra rare find) & Game Gear were strong competitors when they were introduced to the markets but each ultimately failed to steal sales away from the Gameboy. Both the Game Gear and the Manx were revolutionary at the time for being handheld game platforms with color LCD screens versus the Gameboy's green dot-matrix display in its first versions. However, thanks to a lack of good game varieties and the astronomical cost of the technology, both systems failed miserably. SEGA took the worst hit after trying to turn interest back into the Game Gear by offering a TV Tuner for it, but it was too late. Their many versions of the SEGA Genesis flooded the market with obsolete systems and sealed their fate as a game console.

Well, Sony has finalized and has presented yet another competitor to the Gameboy. This time, there is a strong chance Sony's attempt will succeed.


Sony PSP Handheld

Calling their handheld the PSP, short for Playstation Portable, Sony will more than likely race head to head with the Gameboy offering stellar graphics and games in a new game disc format. Expect to be blown away starting in 2005.

Great. Now I need more money...