Jbeatty's Journal

08/23/2007 20:59 #40697

Kalbi

Tonight for dinner I made Kalbi. All modesty aside it was absolutely delicious. I got most of the ingredients from Sung's Oriental Grocery on Niagara Falls Blvd (between Sheridan and Main). It's a well-stocked Korean Grocery with plenty of hard to find items. The owners are also very pleasant and helpful. Maybe worth an (e:tinypliny) review.

Ok so I suppose I should be fair and critique my own cooking. The garlic I cooked with it sucked. But I stopped using it after the first piece of lettuce. It was the first time I have tried to make it, however I've seen it done literally, thousands of times. Fortunately I made way too much so I guess its Kalbi again for lunch tomorrow.

john - 08/26/07 12:38
Mmmm... That looks good. I won't tell you what I ate last night (yesterday was clean out the fridge day). I can't wait until Thanksgiving. I wonder what we'll come up with to cook for that. Hmmm...

tinypliny - 08/24/07 23:53
Nice-looking dinner. Not up my alley, though. :)

I guess the store that is being sung about is not exactly walking/biking distance from downtown, is it?

jbeatty - 08/24/07 10:38
1)Kalbi is beef short rib Korean BBQ. Its made in a fruit based marinade. Served with leaf lettuce and any one of numerous sauces either doengjang, ko choo, or a mixture of the two ssamjang. You take the lettuce and and all ingrediants and make (for lack of a better term) a Korean fajita.

2)I think because I get sick of eating the white-boy stuff all the time. So I try to figure out how on earth to make what I already like to eat.

jenks - 08/24/07 10:17
1: what is kalbi? (looks yummy)
2: why do you know how to cook all this non-white-boy food?! (that is a compliment)

theecarey - 08/23/07 23:33
I agree, Sungs is great. I just thought earlier today that I need to make my way out there to pick up a few things. Dinner looks yummy, btw!

james - 08/23/07 23:19
I love that grocery store. Just wish I was up that way more often to justify going there.

08/23/2007 15:56 #40694

Buffalo Celebrity Spotting

I rarely, if ever watch American Football. I have heard some players names but couldn't pick most of them out of a lineup unless of course they killed their ex-wife or were part of a dog fighting club. So last night at work when somebody said J.P Losman was on the patio having dinner I thought, "who is J.P. Losman?". I suddenly realized who he was. Anyway long story short I didn't meet him but I thought it was nice of him to tell the kitchen directly that he thought everything was great. I suppose I don't really expect courtesy out of the alpha male jock, pro-sports type of guys, but I thought it probably meant a lot to the cooks who I presume all watch football. Apparently he is a regular there and from what the waitstaff tells me is a pretty nice guy to boot.

metalpeter - 08/26/07 10:19
When the Bills first got JP I read an article about him and he seems like a pretty cool guy. Kinda like a regular person who live downtown and likes the city and isn't all "I'm an NFL star worship me and the ground I walk on". I don't know him so I can't say but what you said he did sounds like the type of guy he seems to be.

jenks - 08/23/07 17:02
haha that's like the night i met ryan miller and andrew peters and had no clue who they were. They seemed a little put off that I was not falling all over them.

jason - 08/23/07 16:45
JP is the Bills' Quarterback

leetee - 08/23/07 16:23
i think it's good when anyone takes the time to compliment the kitchen. too many people are quick to complain, but not as quick to compliment. :O)

oh, and who is J.P. Losman anyway?

08/21/2007 13:55 #40657

Hopefully this works

I spent the better part of the morning trying to figure out how to convert an avi into an swf. I'm hoping my efforts weren't wasted. Anyway about the video, I took this at Englischer Garten in Munich in June of 06. I just happened to stumble upon these guys who rigged some sort of rope system to the bridge and river sidewall and made an artificial wave. It looked like fun. Sorry I have no sound because my camera isn't quite that sophisticated.

::Download Flash SWF::

lauren - 08/21/07 20:53
works for me, looks scary but fun

jenks - 08/21/07 20:06
Hmmm... for me (on a mac running safari) it's not a vid, just a still shot. But, it took a while to load- it's almost like there's video there I just can't start it?

lizabeth - 08/21/07 14:48
You should put this up on YouTube, too.

I love this vid.

08/20/2007 20:53 #40643

Man I'm a dork!

I went to Spot Coffee to check it out and have a big cup caffeine this evening. I had a mocha in one of those massive cups. On top was tons of whipped cream and chocolate sauce. I must have sat there for an hour sipping away and writing and didn't notice this till I got home.

I certainly put the ass in class!

lizabeth - 08/21/07 14:50
You need to tell your brother how to do that, 'cause that's hot.

I <3 Spot mochas.

carolinian - 08/21/07 09:08
You need to find yourself a good woman to lick it off. :)

janelle - 08/21/07 08:11
Should have had the Irish coffee like I suggested!

fellyconnelly - 08/21/07 00:37
well maybe somebody just thought you had a medical condition on your nose. like one that maybe turns the tip of your nose a delicious shade of mocha.

tinypliny - 08/20/07 21:18
and now everyone knows! ;-)

08/20/2007 13:20 #40637

I hate liars

Not to whine about former relationships, but when someone drops off the face of the earth so to speak, there is usually a reason for it. My former girlfriend who decided to dump me and then continue screwing with my head for several months after has finally showed her true motive for her disappearing act. Not that I'm hung up on her by any means but I always thought that it was strange that she was calling everyday and visiting me several times a week after the break up and then poof. What irritated me most about the whole situation was that she denied she was in fact ignoring me. Although it was more than evident that she was. I had always had a hunch that she was involved with someone but I left it alone because I suppose it really wasn't any of my business. She stated to me on more than one occasion that she was not with anyone. So today I found out that indeed there was some sort of love in her life and I guess I'm just bitter that I was lied to. I am having some serious trust issues with people that I consider(ed) to be close friends and this is just another example. I'm growing really tired of people lying and just being all around bad friends. I'm honestly well over her but for what its worth I think I wouldn't have been so fucked up for so long after if she had just told me to "fuck off I'm with this other guy now" or even just to say "I don't want to be your friend". So I suppose this goes along with what many others on this site have been saying lately. That it's really best to be honest with someone no matter how much it hurts.

jenks - 08/21/07 10:56
oh yeah, and jbeatty, I'm with you 100%.

jenks - 08/21/07 10:55
cmon jay... not to attack you, b/c I know you've been through some shit and have every right to feel what you want, but you've GOT to stop with the overgeneralizations. I'm really truly sorry you've been so hurt. But you just have to stop insisting that ALL girls are two faced gold-digging bitches, because it's not true and you know that. Just like not all guys are out to string me along and break my heart. Even when it feels that way, I know it's not true.

"The one thing you can bank on when a girl is dating someone is that they won't let go of one vine before finding another one to swing onto. "

this hyperbole is just not true! I, for one, am the absolute opposite. Not that that is necessarily better- I'd probably be less hurt if I could have a "backup" but I just think that's deceitful and wrong and I can't do it.

libertad - 08/20/07 17:57
I'm sorry you are hurting right now. It is shitty to be mind fucked.

jason,
you know what you say is controversial because you know what you say is wrong. There are LOTS of girls that are single because they choose to be. Maybe you attract some nasty bitches in your life, but that doesn't mean everyone is like that. Grow up! You don't have to be a victim all the time. Your generalizations are hurtful and your hate is not going to attract anyone.

jason - 08/20/07 17:01
Yikes! Sounds like a familiar story, minus the screwing with the head part. Time for me to once again get controversial and piss people off.

The one thing you can bank on when a girl is dating someone is that they won't let go of one vine before finding another one to swing onto. Very rare is the case where the girl just says, screw it, single life is better. No, for them, single life is not better. They're forced to live without a parent figure.

Of course, I'm only joking about that last part, but I've experienced enough of these situations to know that you can pretty much safely assume that if she isn't already involved, she has someone firmly in mind. Rather than batter someone's ego even further, they prefer to lie their ass off. They really don't want to have to come to terms with who they really are.

Many therapists say it's better to lie in this case, and cheaters/upgraders/window shoppers all across the world agree. It's good because they can fake appearances, pretending to be compassionate, and not feel like quite so much like the whores they are. They really are nice people, honest!

This topic has come up before, and many people here prefer to be lied to in this case. Again I can understand the motivation for that. Sometimes it's better to just forget it and let go. Even if she is a lying, dishonorable bitch, you cannot control that. Better to worry about the things you can control, like your reaction to it.

If you don't have that attachment, if she simply does not matter one way or the other, she no longer has any power over you. There are despicable people in this world, liars, opportunists, cheaters - and that is perfectly alright. Screw it.

Anyway, I'm filibustering again. In general I agree that I would rather hear the bad news than get my intelligence insulted, which I think is even worse, but I can deal with whatever now.

tinypliny - 08/20/07 14:15
Honesty is not always the best policy. Quite unfortunate, but true. I can't count the number of times being honest has brought me totally avoidable pain. The only people I can be totally honest with, without fearing consequences, is my family.

I encourage people to be honest but this does not guarantee that they would allow me to be honest too. More often than not, I find that they end up saying any damn thing that comes to their mind to me while I am walking on eggshells and rethinking every single thing I am about to say.

It's nice to be not lied to, but I sometimes wish I met people who would allow me to be who I am.

Yeah, that has never happened.

So that proverb is totally flawed.

fellyconnelly - 08/20/07 13:23
honesty is not something that many people can deal with. but it is true - if everybody on this planet was just completely honest with eachother - i think that eventually people would just get used to hearing the truth and it won't be as shocking...
like this morning when i told lauren that she smells. she loves honesty. :)