:enknot and I went to lunch at Kunis again today. I freakin love their food. It is so tasty.



I got tuna and yellow tail rolls


I really like their wakame salad.


This squid was really yummy and really cool looking.


The marekerel was exactly the type I like. I would suggest theirs definately.


Everything was perfect as always. They really just have the best Sushi in town. It is, however, a most expensive lunch if you are not getting the Bento box. I seriously think my lunch came to $19.00. Seeing as I barely eat out anymore - I am going to jusify that.

Totally unrelated. Yeserday, I was in Kenmore for the dentist and I tooka couple pics of the trip. Yes, officially pet lover's paradise is closed. It looks like it was closed for a long time and i just never noticed. Does anyone else remember the monkey from in there that everyone said hey gave lsd too? Was that an urban legend or can someone substantiate that store.



The one thing about Kenmore is that everytime I return I am awe struck by its natural beauty.

After a long stint with loving apple stuff I now love nokia stuff better. I wonder if they will ever make a nokia computer that I could need. I love how international they are

THis phone i seriously like a digital camera/phone combo. It has a freakin 5P camera. I think they are going for phone/camera what apple did for the phone/music player.

Whats really going on in this one It reminds me so much of art school meets commercial space.

Just testing out estrip on opera mini. damn thumb typing sucks! but it lets you upload images. not sure why it makes them so darn tiny as the phone can do 1600x1200

This isn't exactly the web stack I expected to work on, lol but it works.

Here is a pic I took of (e:matthew) today using the nokia 7900. It ttakes 2 megaapixel images but I usually just take them at 640x480. It also lets you take videos and use them for ringtones.

With wireless broadband and my nokia 810, taking the bus is pleasant. I took it to my dentist in Kenmore near Sheridan. Unfortunately, the bus was only the stupid Kenmore line one and my dentist was near Sheridan. It was great chatting with (e:hodown) on IM the whole time. I sent her pics from Kenmore along the way. It was so weird to be back in tthe old hood, running through the streets with (e:hodown), even if she was really in NYC.

The online metro system is so dumb. Its all in PDF. Luckily, my nokia 810 reads PDFs so I saved all the schedules while on the bus. Who has mobile access to PDFs besides me. I think i might put up a better site tonight.

Pet lover's paradise is closed. I wonder what happend to the monkey?

I have more to talk about but I wanted to share a picture of my new baby phone that I love. It is so great to have a phone that has a dialpad. It is the first non-touchscreen dialpad/non-keypad dialpad I have ever had. Today was actually me first experience texting on a number pad. It provides a perfect seemless 3g internet experience for the not phone on the go.

It just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Usually, I get all these insane job offers but now people are looking for me to hire them?! Can this be real? This came as an estrip post-it.

Dear Sir,

Apply for Data Entry. I am MBA. I have 10 computers for data entry with 20-Datad Entry Operator. I am lived in Faisal Town Lahore Pakistan. I want to work with you. Please give me a chance for work, I shell proved best my self. If you have required any other information pleas contract me.

Muhammad Aslam
CONTACT INFO REMOVED BY PAUL

In response to (e:enknot,43055) I know that religious folks will totally disagree with me for this but I don't think children should be introduced to religion until they are a bit older as they are so suggestible and imaginative and can get carried away with it in unhealthy ways.

My Two cents: This is really going to make me seem insane but read the whole thing before responding. First of all my parents were religious, but not overbearing about it or anything - so don't read that into this. They went to church on Sunday, we prayed before meals, etc but not like its all we talked about.

I know for many Christians this is impossible to even think about. I think sects with adult baptism make more sense.

As for the moral/ethics argument, here is no reason not to teach them the same moral values outside of the religious context.

It is just that I can see how imaginative, strong willed children could get totally carried away as I did myself. Now I am not saying all children, in all circumstances - just something to think about..

As a child I was really religious. Like I thought about it all the time and it really controlled my life. Mix that with a little imagination and OCD and I had a hard time checking myself before I wrecked myself.

I invented all these imaginary friends to accompany me and God on our adventure in life. I thought those imaginery friends gave me super powers - just ask any of my close childhood friends (e:iriesara) - which honestly, sounds insane now - but put it in a religious context and it isn't that weird. Even Jesus was one of my imaginary frinds. HE took the form of this water creature. In fact, I believed it so much that I could see him wiggling on the ross in church and then he would "drip off"into water creature and fly around. That creature mated with another one and became another friend with other powers, etc.

So I created this whole fantasy world around them and their existence based on what I thought was possible from reading the bible. Just like God, my imaginary friend all had requirements/commandments for loving me.

Some of them required simple things like me repeating chants, others required more complicate stuff like particular movements or blood dripping on rocks, etc. It sounds totally crazy but in a bible reading child world, these kind of stories seemed congruent with what I was reading. It was like my sacrifice to these minions that God and I knew about.

This sadly went on until my mid teens. Then I went on some bible camp scavenger hunt where their existence came out and the people made me get down on my knees and prey to let Jesus into my heart. That was definitely the most terrifying moment of my life because I felt like I definitely had jesus in my heart and they were trying to poison me with some fake jesus. I was confused and for sure scared. I had my imaginary friends create this mystical bubble around me to protect me from them. In fact I even had prayers I would use to command my imaginary friends to do stuff.

Basically, what I am saying is that opening up a child's mind to religion, can open it up to the possibility of insanity because accepting the idea that all this supernatural stuff exists, is a concept that is hard to put reigns on once it is fully accepted.

Luckily for me, this girl named Daniel Woodman,w ho also had imaginary friends came along and stole all my imaginary friends in some sort of imaginary friend battle and they went away, like all in one day. It was both tragedy and a relief.

As a side note and testement to my OCDness as a child, I remember this one chant I would use. The beginning chant came from some religious book about protecting yourself from witches and the end I made up.

"Black lugie and hammer head, rowan tree, and red threat - but the warlocks to their speed, everything, everywhere, disconnected and also extras."

After, a little search I found some info about its origin here I love the ending. It completely describes my OCD as a child. It referred to the fact that I would give myself time limits to say the chant and previously I would have to include things like requesting that my family and friend don't die, we had food on the table etc. But he list became so long I created this macro that basically included, "everything I ever asked for, for everyone, everywhere and that if there were conflicted requests, their dependencies were disconnected and that I would also like an extra things I might think of in the future to be included in my current requests.

I used to also mix this up with the Lord's Prayer as I kind of ending to it that no one else knew.

Plus, I feel to a degree it stymied my creativity. I found a box poetry I wrote as a child and almost every freakin' poem has some overbearing religious context and god overwatching his children. I wish instead I could have thought about other stuff.

To see just how bad it can get check out Jesus Camp
I know (e:enknot) that you and meg are nothing like the woman in this movie but check out Jesus Camp if you hadn't, to see how crazy kids can get with religion.

Here is the wiki article