from the twisted minds of snm
Mmm…
Nothing quite as good as pork tamales from Cha Cha Cha Salsaria in Hawaii Kai. I got there a little early, so I had to wait for them to open, but it was worth the wait. Pork carnitas with corn tamale and black beans with a green tomatillo sauce. Rice and chips with homemade salsa on the side. They thoughtfully put the chips in a seperate container for take-out orders so they don’t get all soggy.
$9.37 USD
Four out of four grinning chow monkeys
Tio Muerte says, “muy sabroso!”
Getting all greasy was how I spent my holiday! 
Last I left off, the AE86 was back together but the FX wouldn’t start. Oh, here’s a pic of the crossmember and rack back in. The rest of it is still pretty crusty, but check out that clean crossmember! I’m going to have to go back and tighten that hydraulic hose hitting, I crawled under the other day after test driving and it’s leaking fluid onto the nice clean crossmember already! Continue reading ‘How I Spent My Festivus’
Every year when Easter or Christmas rolls around, the documentary channels up in the 70’s run all these “History of [insert Biblical name here]” or “The Science of [insert Biblical occurrence here]” programs.
This isn’t HISTORY – it is DOGMA. Having these kinds of programs on seemingly “objective”, “scientific” networks lends credence to the assertion that the people or events involved are factual. This is brainwashing through habituation.
I ran into these on both the National Geographic Channel and The History Channel this weekend. Give us natural history documenaries and war documentaries (respectively), not Christian demagogue!
FTP!
Jarrel finally managed to get me an Easton EC90 zero-offset carbon seatpost after many attempts. I picked it up on Tuesday along with a new Fizik Nisene MTB saddle. The post is all carbon with the exception of the fasteners – the monocoque quill and both rail clamp pieces are carbon fiber! The 27.2mm x 300mm post I got is supposedly around 160 grams. Seat mounting and installation are similar to other zero-offset seatposts like the original Syncros and the current Thomson. The threaded barrels that sit in the top clamp piece are provided with thin stainless steel shims that allow them to rotate freely and not bind against the carbon. Continue reading ‘More Carbon’
After eating at Yotteko-ya last night, we left to find a situation in the McCully Shopping Center parking lot. A dude in a Nissan Sentra had hit a delivery truck offloading food ingredients at Taco Bell, then has attempted to flee. When we had arrived on the scene, an HPD officer was already there and was waiting for the perp to produce his vehicle documents. The officer was on the perp, repeatedly asking rhetorically if he had intended to run from the scene and if he thought this kind of behavior was correct (not in so polite terms though). If the perp wasn’t a perp, then the officer’s tirade would probably be considered hassling. Growing frustrated with the perp’s inability to produce the proper documentation, even after rummaging through his glovebox for an extended period of time, the officer’s speech grew louder and became almost enraged.
A few thoughts came immediately to mind:
“He’s resisting arrest – tase him!”
“He’s going to make a run for it – tase him!”
I wonder where the cops were when the creepy LED-headlamp homeless dudes were raiding the trash cans across the street for discarded pornography?
There are a surprising number of Japanese-themed restaurants in Kaneohe. I say “themed” because in general, they serve Americanized or “Local”-ized fare and not authentic, traditional Japanese cuisine. Maybe I’m also being a racist, since so far all of the ones that I have tried in Kaneohe have been run by ethnic Koreans. That’s not to say Koreans can’t make good food – they make terriffic food: I’m saying the restaurants in question don’t produce acceptable approximations of Nihon-ryouri. It’s picture-book cooking – it looks like it’s supposed to, but doesn’t taste exactly like it’s supposed to. It’s like those science fiction shows where aliens build soul-less, substance-less copies of earth cities, then populate them with kidnapped earthlings and assume the humans will not notice they aren’t at home anymore. Continue reading ‘Our Dog is an Awesome Dog’
12-10-07
What, I didn’t get enough monkey butt from riding the marathon escort on Sunday? 
I guess not, and despite the soaking I got on that ride, Ckucky, Chris and I decide to ride St. Louis tonight. The whole day had been sunny, there’s a chance it might be ok. Yeah. Well, it might be a little spoogy, but that’ll be ok. Uh huh. But Chris has some free time, so we got to take advantage. Continue reading ‘Saint Louis Spoogefest’
Time to catch up on the Corollas. They’re finally both registered and safetied, but still neither are running. The FX needs new transaxle output shaft seals, and power steering reinstalled but it’s out in the driveway making working on it difficult with the recent psychotic rains. So working on the AE86. Picked up a reman steering rack and set about removing the old one.
12-01-07
 The rack is bolted to the front crossmember and I decided to take out the whole thing. I’ve heard it’s possible to take out without removing the crossmember, but it was all such a spoogy mess from the leaking p/s and brake fluids that taking it all out to clean would be a good idea. It’s actually a fairly simple ordeal. 
Disconnect the steering shaft u-joint, unbolt & pop tie rod ends, unbolt steering arms from bottom of shock strut, unbolt lower control arm tension rods, unbolt anti-sway bar ends, remember to drain & disconnect the p/s hoses, unbolt front engine mounts, support engine, then finally unbolt the four main crossmember bolts and drop the assembly. Hopefully not literally. Continue reading ‘Not So MightyVac’
Went to E & O Trading Company for the office holiday dinner last night. Dark with earthy tones and Southeast Asian decor, this trendy Pacific-fusion restaurant takes over the empty space between Compadres’ and Borders at Ward Center once occupied by Jean-Marie Josselin’s Oahu branch of A Pacific Cafe. The server was polite and pleasant, but it seemed like the wait staff was overstretched – We would go many minutes without seeing our server on many an occasion. A brief read of the menu indicated that their culinary lean was toward South and Southeast Asia, with Indian, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese influences. There were some Chinese and Japanese-inspired menu items tossed in for good measure too. Continue reading ‘No Expectations = No Disappointments’
Ho Cuz – wen’ go by Yama’s Fish Market today fo’ get one numba’chree Lau Lau plate, an’, frick – trip me out! Was $9.00 USD wit’ one $0.45USD poi upgrade! Dat stay $9.94 wit’ tax fo’ dose of youse who no stay get one calcalata’ handy.
WTF?!
The Lau Lau was a little on the dry side today and the poi tasted a little weird (not sour - I would have liked that actually). Not up to the standard I’ve come to expect of them – especially at ten bucks!
