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baratron

home again, toodly pip

Dec 16, 2010 06:28

Back home now. Haven't exactly been keeping up either with livejournal or the real-world news. (American news is full of people I've never heard of and very little about the world outside the US).

Tuesday night dinner was at Blockheads, a typical American Tex-Mex, but one that knew what vegans are. I get Mexican food when I'm in Seattle at the ( Read more... )

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trinker December 16 2010, 10:14:59 UTC

Cooked salsa, or pico de gallo?

Pico de gallo is made by chopping up all sorts of stuff, and is peasant food, so no fussy skinning tomatoes, normally. And is full of onions.

Glad you had a good time in NY.

baratron December 20 2010, 16:54:20 UTC

I am not sure that people in this country are insufficiently educated to know the difference. That may be my problem :)

trinker December 20 2010, 18:53:17 UTC

Ah. I have some horror stories about the Tahitian attempt at Mexican.

bitty December 16 2010, 11:40:22 UTC

We have a spare room in the front if you need to save on hotel. Of course, it gets cold enough in the winter to turn you bisexual (just ask lcohen), but that shouldn't be a problem.

(Actually, we have a space heater for that room now, so it's much better, really.)

veryfineredwine December 19 2010, 02:34:22 UTC

How late does the MBTA run on New Year's Eve?

arfur here bitty December 19 2010, 15:20:37 UTC

they haven't officially announced service modifications for this year, but last year it was free service from 8pm, and service extended until about 2am. (Meaning, if you get on the T by 1:30, you should be able to take any combination of subway or major bus lines to get where you need to go.)

Re: arfur here veryfineredwine December 19 2010, 16:37:38 UTC

Thanks! We shall keep that in mind.

ext_221050 December 18 2010, 16:14:07 UTC

Peeling tomatoes is actually somewhat annoying, although if you have a lot of them and can get into the rhythm, it is surprisingly fun...

Turns out I've also been battling OpenOffice. Microsoft Word (which I use in the labs) has been complicating things too, but fortunately, I have the Word problem isolated down to some minor issue involving templates, styles, equations, embedded objects, tables, or borders on headers and footers, or perhaps incompatibilities between Word 2007 and Word 2010. The OpenOffice problems are simply because all open source software is unsupported crap and full of bugs.

Speaking of embedded objects, we happen to be driving from Boston to Rochester roughly when you're planning to leave Boston. Amazing, that. :-)