Shanghai Wind, SLB steamer / person ratios, guitar strings, Audioscrobbler

I'm working on suitably expanding my stomach (as Eric terms it) for tonight's Shanghai Wind experience. The "unknown variable" (my friend Jayson) is coming along, since he left me a message on the answering machine to that effect. (that was totally a surprise, since I wasn't REALLY expecting him to respond to my casual invite!) Yes, I do turn that on once in a while: his phone line is borked, so he can't get online... and he's planning to move to Surrey or wherever the rent costs are lower. This should get really interesting, especially if we order ha-gow. ;) (he's allergic to seafood, heh)

Eric and I were coordinating our plans earlier this morning... he'll arrive around 6:15 or so, and I plan to get there around that time too. Then again, he might just waste time going to Noteworthy Music and see if there are any good strings for his guitar. Strings lose their tuning the higher up the fret board you go, and he thinks the person that owned it before pre-stretched their strings. That's not necessarily a good thing, even though some people suggest it as it helps the string stay in tune faster. (normally, you need to keep tuning a guitar when you first change strings) But pre-stretching is done by hand and it doesn't stretch the string evenly. So he might as well look for them, heh. Who knows, I might go there too for laughs.

Thanks to Eunice changing the time to 6:30, we might have people showing up at 6:45... but the two of us (plus Jayson, haha) should be there at the reservation time. It'll also be good seeing Steph, Eddie, Nathan, Danielle, and Jeremy, too. Eric joked that his extra set of guitar strings might turn into snakes, kill my non-Richmond / non-Nathan car friend, and eat all our siu long bao. I certainly HOPE not, hahaha. He also hopes my friend won't kill us, or that we won't kill him. That's unlikely to happen unless he torments Danielle endlessly about Harry Potter again like he did at Pho that time!

Edit: Palmer just got on AIM to inform me that he's just been evicted, so of course that necessitates a change of plans. Phew, and AIYA. :P


Inaugural SLB night (June 23, 2005... Thursday): 9 orders for 10 people. (72 total)
Second SLB night (July 4, 2005... Monday): 12 orders for 6 people. (2 steamers for each person... 96 total)
Tonight's goal: at least 15 orders for 8 people!
Third SLB night (Sept. 21, 2005... Wednesday): 13 steamers for 8 people.
Fourth SLB night (May 24, 2006... Wednesday): 21 steamers for 9 people. (would be 10 people, but Vivian S. doesn't count since she doesn't eat pork!)
Fifth SLB night (Dec. 17, 2006... Sunday): 4 steamers for 7 people, with other filling stuff.
Sixth SLB night (February 11, 2007... Sunday): 35 steamers for 9 people.


They come in "little wooden dealies" (Corey's term for steamers :P) and look like this:




I've also converted Spoz to Audioscrobbler through asking him about his Winamp playlist link. (gotta have it in Trillian in case I ever need to find it again, haha) He says it's quite trippy just for the whole "sifting through the garbage" nature of its statistical analysis. Says he wouldn't mind feeding his insane list through this to see how Audioscrobbler treats it... especially considering he uses a 6000-song playlist. ;) It's nifty that it's just wired automatically to his Winamp through a plugin: of course, a large number of songs that might pop up will be random, but it'll be interesting to see he DOES listen to more often.. ;)


Bonuses for reading this far, thanks to my friend Mike at Our Place:

1. 41 Anomalies of Water

2. Ever wonder how many servers away your computer is from certain websites?
Start ---> Run ---> cmd.exe

Type in tracert WEBSITE ADDRESS (replace "WEBSITE ADDRESS" with the actual website :P)

Sit back and enjoy. :D

(reminds me of the telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl ASCII version of Star Wars)