I haven’t been posting because my laptop started to act funny last week. Today it seemed to take its last breathe. While I did back up most of my files to an external hard drive…it looks like I won’t be able to recover a number of important files. I’ll see if I can [...]

I’m at the Japanese market, Mitsuwa, looking to buy a few grocery items. But instead, I find myself in the middle of the food court enjoying the beef curry udon soup that’s pictured below. Damn these temptations.

This is my first mobile post, so let’s see how it goes.
My friend just called me and the wait for Bon Chon chicken is an hour and a half. Time to meet up with my friends and hit the bars
Ok, it’s 8:40pm and I am at Bon Chon. There’s still a wait. [...]

After a long day at the NY Renaissance Festival on Saturday, me and my friends were hungry, and we did not feel like dining out.  So we decided to buy groceries and dined-in instead.
I find entertaining guests to be quite fun, but when I do it, I like to plan the events in advance.  This [...]

While I was stocking up on groceries at Whole Foods, there was a new section that sold farm fresh eggs, not just any eggs, but pheasant eggs, duck eggs, quail eggs, and the ginormous ostrich eggs.  I had never seen an ostrich egg in real life before, it’s pretty awesome.  From holding it, it had [...]

To make sure the toast Gods don’t get all vengeful on your ass, you can appease them with this CO2 gas-powered toaster.  It is officially the highest popping toaster in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records.  I wonder how high Pop-Tarts can go?  And another question…why?

Freddie Yauner via Dvice

Image: Defective Yeti
I never knew ‘Child’ was a microwave cooking option.
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Researchers in Switzerland turned Fujitsu’s HOAP-3 humanoid robot and taught it some vital omelet preparation know-how. I am impressed. Watch this robot scramble eggs, cut ham, and grate cheese!

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~ Kin

Burnt Teflon smells horrible, that’s what happens when you leave it on high heat for too long.  These fumes can’t be good for my health.

The time is 12.05 am and I am lying on my sofa, listening to songs by Fergie and reading Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich. My stomach suddenly grumbles and the first reaction was to reach for the cabinets for some snacks. As the cabinet doors swing open, I found a bag of Kirkland signature Fruit [...]