Tofu & Apple

I know I have let you down when it comes to food blogging, so I will try to make up for it from now on. I will start with Sushi Train. (I believe I will have more posts from there in the future. ) Its located fairly close to where I live and go there regularly. Its one of those conveyor belt sushi restaurants. I use to have a quite strong negative opinion about those sort of restaurants. Mainly because of Yo! Sushi in London. The biggest conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain. It was very pricey and the sushi wasnt particularly good. You could easly spend more than £20 there. Its a different story with sushi train. Each plate is only $3. that is about £1.38 according to google. And they are very generous with the fish. The staff is all Japanese as well. But today I decided not to pick my food from the conveyor belt. I ordered one of ther rice bowl dishes. They too are very generous and you get them with miso Soup for only $9.50.

9.50 Australian dollars = 51.4360875 Swedish kronor

9.50 Australian dollars = 4.39088125 British pounds

You can have them with differant things such as chicken or fresh cut raw salmon and fish roe. But today I had it with Tofu. Sometimes I find the texture of tofu to be to soft for my liking. But this one is excellent. They are all really filling. I think its great value for money.

I also want to talk about Apple. I have had some trouble with my keyboard and touch pad recently. This morning it stopped working altogether. I brought it in to the genius bar at the apple store. I must say I'm really impressed. I got it repaired within 2 hours on a Saturday. I didn't even needed to show them a receipt. They replaced the whole top bit of my computer. So its all new and shiny. It really feels new, as my old touch pad was worn out and smooth. this one is still rough.

Thumbs up for Apple and Sushi Train

/Phil

Had a great day today. Me and Kat had breakfast at Kawa, my favorite Café in Sydney, then we where off to Bronte Beach with bus. But before we cought the bus we decided to get books to read while at the beach. We found another café on our way to the bus stop who had a box of old 1$ second hand books. I bought "Gentleman Spies" and Kat got "Space prison".
When we got to the beach. We had brought a cookie each and Kat a coffe and I a Ginger Beer. So we starded off with that. The waves where huge and after a while it got so temting so we ran into the water. I'm not sure I have been in waves this big before. It was great fun and we stayed in the water as long as we could. When we got to exhausted we went back onto beach and read "Space prison" out loud to each other, and it actually seems like a pretty good book. In the afternoon we went back into town, as Kat needed to buy a jigsaw puzzle for her grandparents. We found a great shop, with a great puzzles (for you who have tried, you know how hard it is to find nice puzzles, not containing only classical artwork and swiss mountains. After that we had japanese ramen noodles in what might be Sydneys best ramen shop, Ichi-ban Boshi. We drank melon soda with ice cream. Now Im all sunburnt back on top of my bed. Its been a great day. Weather is amazing at the moment.





















Kat, just after we got out of the bus.




















































Gyoza @ Ichi-Ban Boshi

A Swedish T

This one will only make sense to you swedes out there. When Gustav was to buy his first pair of Havaianas (The Flip Flops, or Thongs as they are called here in Australia). We where in a very ordinary clothes shop. And we found this t-shirt made by Lee...

Reading the brain

Now they have managed to get a computer to recreate an image extracted from the human brain.
There is a lot about it online so there is no need for me to rewrite it all over again.
You can read about it here for instace: http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/

Its very interesting in many points of view. Just imagine that you can start creating data just by thinking. not only imagery but also audio. Creativity will be the limit. And hope it wont end up in the hands of evil.

Games

Many years ago I was pretty much addicted to video games, but one day my interest just dried out. I guess I got more interested in what was behind the games, and how they where made. That interest never grew as strong as the actual addiction though. But it provides enough oxygen to keep a loose interest alive and I stay in touch on what is new and exciting. I'm pretty much being fed this information by my friends who still happily buy the latest games or work in the industry for that matter. I don't pay much attention and games rarely catches my eye and makes me tempted to find out more. But on the odd occasion it does. And it happened twice this week.

1. Love
The game it self seems to be just another of those multi user online games set in an epic fantasy world. What triggers my mind is how its made. I cant get my head around it, but its all made by one person alone, Eskil Steenberg. Multi User online games usually involve easily over 100 people and takes several years to develope. Here Eskil manages to creat it all by him selfe, and I must admit it looks pretty impressive to me. And the graphical style is very unusual.










Here is the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMX69Priad8

2. FEIST













Its very unusual looking, and was done as an art project. Just have a look at the site, and watch the video clip there. http://www.gd08.ch/FEIST/
When watching the video I thought the music was terrific too, and by reading the fine print I found out that its made by "Podington Bear", http://podingtonbear.com/

New Scandies

Another 3 Scandinavians arrived on Friday. 2 of them are staying at my place while looking for a flat of their own.
Since they arrived they have been asked at several occasions if they are playing in a band. I guess because most people here are dressing very bland, looking like they are buying all their clothes at Åhlens, Kappahl and Dressman (Sweden), Gap, NEXT (UK). And the second thing is, that Aussies rarely dress in black and white.
Just to add to the impression Rajdarn set up a photo shoot in my living room.
This is the result:

Online

Finally I'm online after 2 months, so now I hope to keep this blog more up to date, and be on line for a chat or two.