I took a dozen aboriginal rangers into a freshwater spring filled with saltwater crocodiles to collect eggs from nests. Several of them were terrified, but they did a great job (it was a training exercise). One female decided against her better judgment to attack us, but her heart wasn’t in it and a quick tap on the nose made her bolt. The zinger though, someone had been there before us and raided all the nests. Argh.
We had so much rain at one point that the helicopter couldn’t land on the road. Within 10 minutes it was nearly a foot deep in water. The road must have been an old watercourse or something.
Stop. Posting.*
You make the rest of us realize how bland and uninteresting lives we lead. Choppers, tropical rainstorms, aboriginals and a crocodile attack… and I just bought a nondescript French car.
*kidding, love your stories.
Oh, it’s totally this one:
http://inside.whiteguide.se/restaurant/PM-Vanner-102.html
Technically, it seems to have been placed fourth on the list, but had the same food quality score as the ones above.
Seems to have decent prices (for that kind of restaurant), as well.
Rimbo
4825
The hotel we switched to in Qingdao has every port except for 80 and 443 blocked. Fuck.
Technically it’s a shared 4th overall (food and service) but 1st on food alone - it’s in the box on the right on the frontpage.
Dagens Industri also named it 1st earlier.
And I think the prices are what they are because of the location - even with ambition, there’s a limit to how much you can charge if you’re not in a huge city (unless you’re El Bulli). They have a more traditional lunch menu, which is not as ambitious - aimed at business lunchers and people in a hurry - and thus very reasonably priced, but still very good.
We’re going there for the full menu in two weeks time.
Kael
4828
Sid Meier mentioned Fall from Heaven in the keynote address at GDC (complete with some art from FfH up on the screen).
Houngan
4829
You’re in China. Turn off the computer and go outside.
H.
Shadarr
4830
Whatever you do, don’t try to circumvent the firewall. They may not bill your family for the bullet, but they might still shoot you.
Acid
4831
Just found out from her doctor’s secretary that my wife has “gall bladder disease.” Results of a nuke-med test. Now my wife has to call a surgeon to whom her doctor referred her.
From the doctor’s secretary? That’s…okay…sad to hear it though, hope it all turns out well.
newbrof
4833
We are about to move to a new appartment. Nice, old house, 5 storeys, looking forward to. The only thing I am not happy about is a door on the 2nd floor (the realtor said not to care about it)… This door is always open, a small gap. It is kind of creepy… why does the neighbour leave his door open… probably I have to go and talk to the guy (maybe an old lady, who knows, but I have to know what kind of person it is)… I don’t like it that my kids have to pass that door every day. I don’t know what will happen if I close the door, probably some psychological war will start… so we will move in 4 weeks into the house… crap, there is always a hook
Acid
4834
Thanks. She got an appointment with the surgeon toward the end of the month. The anticipation is giving me heartburn.
Brendan
4835
Just a note for the future: You threw us off when you called FfH “…a fun little side project…”.
To the rest of us FfH is fucking epic.
That is all.
If I verify that, you’ll know where I live.
But yeah, just moved in a couple months ago, too. I didn’t know about the building not inspecting its balconies for years, I was going to look up the building’s violations at dept. of Buildings once i had some time. Thanks for the link.
…to eat?
No kidding. I was thinking “What in the hell does he do with MOST of his time, then?”
I met my new neighbors the other day, a 20-something married couple. The husband mentioned they’re from Indiana, and that’s when I noticed the Indiana University sticker on their car.
Me: “Bloomington? I’ve been there. I had a girlfriend in college at Bloomington.”
Wife: “So did I!”
As I was smiling and deciding whether to compare notes to see if we dated the same girl, she pointed to her husband who I think was kind of shocked she’d reveal that to a complete stranger.
Wife: “And so did you!?”
Husband: “I did?”
Wife: “Yeah, me!”
Husband: “Oh, yeah. That’s right!”
I <3 Austin.
XPav
4839
My debit card just got compromised. I will give my bank credit for catching it one the day of the transactions, but now I’ve got to do annoying paperwork.
Rimbo
4840
Being sick on vacation sucks.
