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I had a wonderful birthday dinner at Per Se.

In the spring of 2004, PER SE opened in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle in New York. With it, Thomas Keller brought his distinctive hands-on approach from Napa Valley's THE FRENCH LAUNDRY to New York, reflecting his intense focus on detail that extends to cuisine, presentation, mood and surroundings.

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The dining room holds just 15 tables and boasts spectacular views of Central Park. There's also a salon, bar, wine cellar, a private room for 10 and another that accommodates up to 60 guests.

You can "live" the meal on my Flickr photoset for Per Se.

In my wine pairing, the wine that stood out was the Twenty-Two Syrah. Tragic and touching at the same time.

After dinner our table got a tour of the kitchen and got to speak to some of the chefs responsible for the night's culinary creations. Interesting note, Per Se has a live video feed of the French Laundry kitchen and vice-versa.

Oh, if you do happen to get the Pol Roger champagne with your wine pairing and the staff tells you how it was the favorite champagne of Sir Winston Churchill, it's probably because my dad talked with the staff at length about that particular fact. We did notice the staff describe the champagne this way to the table next to ours.

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I now own an XBox 360 and the following games:

• Guitar Hero 2
• Dead Rising
• BioShock

My nerd quotient has simply skyrocketed.

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It's official. Summer is over.

Issues of Transworld Snowboarding have started to arrive. MDP's Picture This is now shipping (already placed an order).

That is all.

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Carbon Kid - Placebo

I have now handily beat the hell out of Elite Beat Agents.

That is all. 

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Last Thursday I did a Software Update and got the latest Quicktime and iTunes updates.

Last Friday I started watching a movie trailer, 1-18-08 (I am so seeing that movie, BTW), and halfway through, my machine froze. 

Sad Mac.

I think that maybe my iMac was experiencing the Shock and Awe of updating prebinding. I've already had the logic board replaced once. It could again be a bad logic board. Smart money is on the shock and awe, but whatever. Either way, my primary computer is out for repair. 

Thankfully I was able to backup my photos, music, documents, and most of my projects. 

Once it's back from repair, I'm purchasing a ProCare card, aka the "Fuck the fact that you're a dimwit and can't figure out how to edit your iPhone contacts, I'm special" card. Honestly, I would've dropped the $99 right on the spot if the person at the Apple store would've said the magic words, "Fast Track". Upsell much? Seriously though, Apple really needs to re-think the whole service and support within Apple stores.

So, if I haven't responded to your e-mail or bug report, I'll get to it. I just ask for your patience. Thanks.

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I know I'm way late in posting, but I had Easter dinner at Alinea. Here's a photo of the 24 course tour menu (with wine pairings, natch) for that evening.

I got to go back into the kitchen and talk to Chef Achatz for a few minutes. Funny story ... the staff at Alinea had their Christmas party at Spring, where I had eaten the night before. That was good for a laugh!

If you can, I highly recommend Alinea. They kind of served Jöel Robuchon their asses on a pillow ... a lavender scented pillow (course 7 at Alinea).

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I got an e-mail yesterday.

Hi David,

I'm interested in buying an ad on:
http://www.blojsom.com/blog/david/general/2006/03/08/Bottom-Shelf-Liquor.html
for a website that provides rehabilitation services for people who have problems with alcohol or drugs.
I can pay you $35 for this ad.

Please get back to me soon if you're interested!

I figure that with at least a $35-per entry ad fee, this blog is worth at least $60,830.

LOLCODE.

Programming the LOL way. All LOLCats, LOL, ALL CAPS.

HAI! This site provides community documentation of the emergent LOLCODE language. It is our hope that the examples can grow in a way that is both internally consistent and suggest a real, feasible computing language.

There are a bunch of contributions already helping to shape the language. I mean, reading from a file, who could NOT love this language?

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
	AWSUM THX
		VISIBLE FILE
	O NOES
		INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE

There's already a Python interpreter for the language.

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MarkdownJ

MarkdownJ is the pure Java port of Markdown (a text-to-html conversion tool written by John Gruber.)

There's already a patch to convert our markdown plugin to use MarkdownJ instead of calling out to the Perl script.

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Andreas Schaefer wrote up the installation notes on blojsom 3 under JBoss, Linux, and PostgreSQL. Thanks!

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