Went to Benihana's this afternoon and had a teriyaki steak prepared by our table chef, Antonio. What a crazy job... can't help but wonder how often a performing chef loses hold of a shaker they're juggling behind their back and smacks someone in the eye. The food is alright, if a bit bland, but face it: the real reason to go to a place like (and pay about double what you normally would for good Japanese food) is the show - and in that realm I can't say they disappoint.

Then I came home and tried to diagnosis my PC in anticipation of the Team Fortress 2 beta opening this week. The problem was running Half Life 2 Deathmatch (using the same Source engine) would consistently after about 3-5 minutes of play. I managed to successfully isolate the first problem (involving the VB JIT debugger), and then work my way to updating my BIOS, video card drivers, DirectX, sound card drivers, reinstalling the game, testing my RAM, then going out and buying new RAM... the result being that although the new RAM passes MemTest with flying colors, I'm $50 poorer and I can't even start Half Life without getting "Platform error: Module failed to initialize" followed by a 'memory could not be read' error. Awesome!

Naturally, I'm on the MacBook again. I'd really love to play Team Fortress though...

( And some stuff about iPhone... )

Oh, by the way kids, my number has changed: if you need to get a hold of me (and you still haven't figured out I'm almost always easier to reach through AIM), you can text my phone right here and we'll work it out.