Doug's Sounding Board

I just got one of these in change and realized that it’s the first quarter to feature death. It makes it kind of unsettling.

Last night I attempted a version of pad thai, and the result was fairly good. In the first couple batches the rice noodles weren’t cooked enough but it’s hard to know when they’re done. The cooktop can easily keep the heat high enough without even going into boost mode, I can kind of simulate putting […]

The road the crosses the yacht harbor from 7th Avenue and continuing past where it turns into San Lorenzo as it goes by the Boardwalk is being repaved, which is fantastic news. On either side they have the electronic displays explaining that between the dates shown there will be delays. On the 7th Avenue side […]

I rented Sonic and the Secret Rings and it is definitely the nicest looking Wii game I’ve played so far. I like how the story is told with lightly animated storyboards. The voice acting doesn’t make me cringe in pain like with older 3D Sonic games. This was supposed to be the 3D Sonic that […]

Thanks to those who brought chocolate and voted. I’m glad to have help in this critical research! Voted most deadly of the chocolate dishes last night was Black bottom chocolate pie prepared by Shelley. Second was the chocolate mousse brought by Ian. My arms feel their arm workout from mixing the extremely thick cookie dough. […]

This Sunday at 6:30PM at my house, tasting/voting to hopefully begin at 7PM. If you want to bring something that claims to be deadly chocolate here is a good place to look.

My boss, who is about to leave, used to develop video games and he wanted to see the Wii, so I brought it in this morning so he could try it out. He was having fun with tennis and then he wanted me to demonstrate bowling. I was careful to avoid the conference room table, […]

Five people, including my boss, are moving on to other things this week. One of the others is the guy who wrote the server component for a small “demo” program that we wrote in December. It was a program that everyone who saw it wanted it, it will never find its way to a consumer. […]

The crazy cold wind Makes scooter rides angular But my hair looks good

Premonition was…. not so good. After awhile you’re wishing for some progress and when you get some progress you’re like “uh huh, sure.” I’m going to go into a few spoilers here…. The moment where it completely lost it for me is when, seeing that she needed to consult someone about premonitions, goes to the […]