Gid showed us this video at Vox:

Last Minutes with ODEN from phos pictures on Vimeo.

It was pretty moving as I think we can all connect with the pain of loss. Sometimes it’s good to cry, ya know?

The Bazaarvoice crew lost one of our young implementation engineers this weekend to a stupid hit and run. If you have any information, please contact APD. I didn’t know him very well, but from the small bit of time I worked with him, I know the loss of Andrew Runciman will be felt at BV, so I can only imagine the loss felt by his friends and family. Prayers to you all.

In a week or so I will be transitioning to a new position at Bazaarvoice - Labs Engineer. I’m really excited to face a new set of challenges/problems and am comfortable that there are more than capable engineers in Technical Services to fill in for me. I have no doubt that the team that has been built there will continue to push the boundaries on delivering our products and I hope to be able to help from the other side of the building. =)

I took the job switch as an opportunity to update my LinkedIn with a slightly better job history at Bazaarvoice, lest I forget what I did… haha. I also updated my Twitter avatar and I think I need to make a new custom background, but I haven’t decided on what to do yet…

Yay! Another Meatcation movie! This time, starring Sam Ni!

Like a few other iMovie templated movies, I just stuck with the default text for the most part. =)

Unfortunately, I took far less video than I should have this time around. I will commit to being more vigilant next time. Fortunately, I did a little better on the photo front which you can see on my Meatcation 2 flickr set. Enjoy!

Okay, I finally uploaded the rest of my Meatcation 2 photos. Go to the flickr set for them all, but here are some highlights.

Disclaimer: I use the term “meat” loosely. Meatcation is really all about eating some kind of animal each day, preferably new in some way (we haven’t made/had before or cooked in a unique way, etc.). Seafood, poultry, etc. all qualify.

This time around, we didn’t have the luxury of taking off an entire week of work, so we just did dinner for seven days (with a two day break in between). We started off the week with duck so that we could have plenty of duck fat for the later days. =)

George pointed out that the following could be grossly misinterpreted… haha…

Next up was beef ribs:

After that, burgers and sweet potato fries (using the duck fat, of course - I think we put some bacon fat in there too… =).

Wednesday was FISH FEAST day. We made three different types of fish.

I think next up is antelope and boudin.

Getting better… bison steaks and lamb. Mmmm, that lamb was good, although slightly overcooked. I feel like the bison steak could have used more salt and pepper, but not bad. We also had the glorious duck fat drenched potatoes today.

Finale. LOTS OF PORK BELLY IN MAH BELLY.

Meatcation 2 done. Success. Animals beware, next year is coming!

I have a number of topics to post about, but I haven’t found the time. I’ll get to them eventually…

This is my dog, Orbit:

He shall be missed. =( He lived a long life though… about 16 years? Good bye, Orbit, you were a good dog. =) RIP.

Last week, Andrew cryptically scheduled Ryan for a day of something. No one really knew what Andrew was up to, so we weren’t sure whether Ryan would be alive after that day. Turns out, Andrew bought the parts to assemble a MakerBot, so Mark, Andrew and Ryan set out to make the MakerBot so they could make other stuff. Oh… Sam joined for a brief period of time.

They finished really early this morning, but I took a few photos last night. I played around with the processing a bit… hope it’s not annoying. ;)

Okay, it’s a bit late, but here are photos from Chicago. We’ll start off with some from Alinea, which was pretty ridiculous. I’d consider going again in a few years, definitely.

This was my favorite:

The dessert was pretty crazy. I don’t even know what was in it.

It was pretty cold… I think when we got in it was somewhere in the lower teens.

We went to the John Hancock Observatory which was pretty cool. Nice view of the city.

I think this one is funny because it looks like an ad photo.

The day after Alinea, we went to Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab, which was pretty awesome. This is the same restaurant I went to in Las Vegas.

After that, we had stuffed pizza and Chinese:

The next day, we had brunch and italian and visited The Bean:

The last day… I don’t remember the place. It was good but not memorable. It did have wood ice-cream though.

We also…

• Saw Les Misérables, which was enjoyable.


• Saw a small play that was put together with various real love/break-up letters. It was amusing.

Tomorrow, I fly to Chicago and eat at Alinea! WooOoOooOOoo!

I ordered a suit from Banana Republic because apparently no one likes to stock 36R’s in their actual stores. I think it ended up fitting rather well (at least better than the very very few 36R’s I did manage to find locally).

I was debating about whether or not to take photos of my food at Alinea, but now I think I will. The most convincing reason? To make my sister jealous. HAHAHAHA.

I had fun this weekend looking at some old photos from 2004-2005 time period. A select few have now been uploaded to Facebook.

HAHAHAHA. My sisters love me so much. =D

More here.

I took my mom to Uchiko and got their 10 course meal thingy. It was quite tasty!

I also decided to get a new receiver because my Onkyo was kind of crapping out and having issues with certain inputs. Decided to get a Pioneer VSX-1020-K, which I just got today and installed. I’m now letting Star Trek play to “break it in” (I don’t think I need to do that). While installing the receiver, I discovered that some punk had unplugged my subwoofer and who knows how long that’s been that way. Hmph.

In other food related news, I booked a reservation at Alinea!

Oh, also, here are a lot of Olivers from the past year or so of blog posts (click for larger version).