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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Anniversary Giveaway!
So, because we want to share the celebration with the people that have made this possible (that's you!), we're hosting a giveaway right here on the KEH Blog. Contest runs for one week, Tuesday, January 11- Tuesday 18th. This time around, we're choosing TWO people to win, and each winner will receive a $100 gift certificate to KEH! Winners will be drawn at random and announced on Wednesday 1/19.
*To enter, leave a comment on this post telling us if you: Were a KEH customer before the blog, have become a customer since the blog, or have yet to purchase from us. Only one of these entries per person.
For an additional entry: Tweet, Facebook, and/or blog about our site and the giveaway. Leave a second comment on this post with the URL to your post or tweet in it. Make sure to leave the URL in a second comment, separate from your first one.
For those of you without a Blogger account, please make sure NOT to use the "anonymous" option. Under "Choose an identity", select Name/URL. If you have some type of website, you can enter it into the URL space. Make sure to fill out your first AND last name. We will post the winner by name, and it is the winners responsibility to contact us with their information so that we can send your gift certificate. You can also choose to leave an email address in your comment so that we can easily contact you. If the winner has not contacted us by Monday 1/24, another winner will be chosen.
Now enter, spread the word, and good luck!
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- Glenn Jodun1/11/11, 7:28 AM
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An opportunity to go away for a holiday is extremely rare and precious to me now. Gone were the days when I could just spontaneously book an airticket and fly off the very next week...sigh. Depriving of a holiday, Hubby decided to squeeze in a 4-day food trip into my "already-very short-12-day" homecoming visit. The 4-day food trip includes Guangzhou, Humen, Macau and Hong Kong..very ambitious, weren't we?
It was my first trip to Guangzhou and I was told again and again, Guangzhou offers the very best of Cantonese cuisine. Mr B, our friend/host in Guangzhou told us before our trip that he will be bring us for a very yummy steamboat lunch as soon as we arrived, so you can imagine how much I was looking forward to it. Well, thanks to the system breakdown at the KLIA control tower, our flight was delayed for more than 2 hours! We were hungry (who said MAS serves good nasi lemak? ) and cold (it was a rainy winter evening) when we reached Guangzhou.
Traffic was bad that evening, so Mr B took us to his favourite neighbourhood restaurant for dinner. He told us that there is a very special dish here that we MUST try. First dish to arrive..."Steamed Salted Chicken with Wine" served with a small bowl of chicken gravy, no no, "chicken essence" more like it! It was delicious! Forget about the calories and cholesterol (not that I care), the crunchy chicken skin was just to hard to resist! The meat was so flavourful and I just love the slightly chewy texture. I could easily finish off the whole plate of chicken myself.
We ordered a bowl of steamed rice to share and I ended up having the most of it because the "chicken essence" I mentioned earlier tasted OHHH SOOOO GOODDD with rice!!!
Feeling greedy, I requested another serve of chicken, this time, just plain Steamed Chicken. A big let down as it was bland and cold. I was too shy to request for another serving of the Salted Chicken I had earlier cos the boys already ordered a long long list of other dishes.
The long long list of dishes of course includes Mr B's 'Must-Try" dish. Can you guess what it was?
TOADS!! Though it looks exactly the same as paddy frog, texture wise, this has more bites to it. Slightly chewier and the meat is so much sweeter. The toads were deep fried in light batter and then toss with Maggi seasoning sauce. Very very tasty!
Deep Fried Eel with Coriander Salad, honestly I couldn't remember how it tasted as I was too busy indulged in savouring every tiny morsel off the toad's bones.
This dish was recommended by the lady boss, who kept asking me to take a bite while refusing to tell me what it was. She was smiling cheekily when I put the first piece into my mouth. Turn out, it was Poached Pig's Tongue! Wasn't as bad as I thought but hey, with so many good stuff on the table, I rather save my quota for other better tasting dish.
And here are some veggies to balance our meal! Watercress with Dace Balls in superior stock. Simple yet tasty.
This dish tasted as yucky as it looked. If not mistaken, this stew dish was Pomelo Pith (the white parts) with Goose Intestines. It tasted soft and mushy, more like a gooey paste than a stew. We ended up sending it back to the kitchen.
A big surprise after a big disappointment.....Stir-Fry Kailan with Garlic and Deep Fried Lard won our hearts. Why oh why tasty food has got to be so UNHEALTHY???
Stir-Fry Goose Intestine was my bro-in-law's request. Pretty tasty too!
We went to pick up Mrs B and Princess B after the dinner before heading to our next destination, Humen. Just before we turn off into the highway, bro-in-law spotted a big restaurant at the roadside. Mr B told us that it is famous for eel. Needless to say, we made a pit-stop. True enough, there were LOTS, 3 HUGE tanks to be exact, of live eels slithering around....brrr...didn't feel like taking a photo of it cos it kind of scary to me to see so many eels at one time. Anyway, this is their famous dish...........huh? A bowl of shaved ice with 3 pieces of miserable jellies?
Dig dig dig....tada.......we found fresh thick slices of juicy eel hidden underneath the ice. The preparation of this dish involved poaching the eel and then cool it down with ice, hence the eels were extremely 'bouncy'. A bowl of soya sauce with wasabi was given to go with the eel. I found this new way of eating eel very interesting.
Mrs B said that their Char Siu aka BBQ Pork is famous too. Though I like my meat FAT, but this plate is waaayyyy too fat for my likings. I could barely find any meat on this plate. Too much on the sweet side too.
We spotted this refreshing plate of Garland Chrysanthemum (Tung Ho) on the table next to ours and so we decided to order this salad to boost our appetite, ahem not that we were lacking any..hehe. True enough, it was very refreshing as it was dressed with Chinese black vinegar. The is my first time having garland chrysanthemum raw and surprisingly, it doesn't taste as strong as compared when its cooked. Love it especially pairing with those addictive crunchy peanuts.
The finish off our night in Guangzhou, we polished this plate of Stir Fry Kai Choy (mustard green) with Beancurd. Full of wok hei and only recently, I learnt to enjoy the bittersweet taste of kai choy. Yummy yummy yummy!
A big thank you to Mr and Mrs B for hosting us as well as driving us off to Humen in the middle of the night. And not forgetting, Princess B for being so tolerable and patient with us throughout the meal. Isn't she pretty?
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
An opportunity to go away for a holiday is extremely rare and precious to me now. Gone were the days when I could just spontaneously book an airticket and fly off the very next week...sigh. Depriving of a holiday, Hubby decided to squeeze in a 4-day food trip into my "already-very short-12-day" homecoming visit. The 4-day food trip includes Guangzhou, Humen, Macau and Hong Kong..very ambitious, weren't we?
Posted by Precious Pea at 4:19 PM
Labels: Guangzhou 2011
7 comments:
- Sonia (Nasi Lemak Lover) said...
the paddy frog shot is cute, hehehe..All dishes look so yummy!
- Wednesday, May 11, 2011
- Life for Beginners said...
You know, I don't remember if I ever thanked you for "introducing" me to Macau with your annual food post series on that island... but it's become a yearly pilgrimage for me and Devil now. We love the place! :)
(In fact, we're heading there again next month, heh.)
- Wednesday, May 11, 2011
- Pureglutton said...
Wow... that's a lot of food in 4 hrs, LOL!
- Wednesday, May 11, 2011
- Precious Pea said...
Sonia: I heard Toad's skin can be eaten too!
Kenny: I miss Macau so much that is why Hubby squeeze in Macau for this short trip. Watch out for my coming post on Macau yah, discover a few new eating place.
Puregluton: Hahaha...cos we are 100% PURE GLUTTONS!
- Thursday, May 12, 2011
- terri@adailyobsession said...
cantonese food is the best! about the pomelo pith, i just posted a recipe on it. so pomelo pith must really be a common guangzhou dish then. no wonder my mom always saves the pith.
- Friday, May 13, 2011
- jason said...
Good to read about your food adventures again!
- Friday, June 03, 2011
- daphne said...
WAH that is a feast. from toads to eels! I am most intrigued by the way the eel is being eat. WOAH.
- Thursday, June 23, 2011

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Monday, April 18, 2011
you're doing it wrong
True confessions: I'm not really into high fantasy. I dug it some when I was younger. I've never read anything by George RR Martin. And, yes, I have broad complaints about the way in which fanboy/geek properties have come to dominate pop culture. But Patterson's review, aside from failing for many of the reasons articulated by Matt Zoller Seitz, is making in my view a wrongheaded critique of fantasy art, and in a way that only enables the fanboy paranoia that they are being sneered at from afar.
Look, I'll lay my cards on the table: one of my complaints about the ascendancy of pop culture is that too many pop culture enthusiasts defend the potential of pop culture genres and media to be transcendent while ignoring the reality that most pop culture is nothing close to it. It's an old formulation and one I have enjoyed for my entire reading life. What is superficially silly, juvenile, sexless, and shallow in pop culture venues like comic books, science fiction, fantasy, and superhero stories can--can -- in the right hands and with delicacy, be used to access a second order seriousness, maturity, romance, and depth. In the best pop artifacts the absurdities of genre conventions are cast into relief with the most meaningful of human experiences, in a way that straight drama often can't access without succumbing to the maudlin, or the portentous. With rare exceptions (Terrence Malick springs immediately to mind), stories told in the "realist" mode have to deploy their romantic or tragic intentions tangentially, since audiences are on the lookout for didacticism or the heavy handed. Meanwhile, in sci fi and fantasy, emotion and drama can hide in plain sight. There's something about the way a romance plays out in contrast to, say, a druid beheading a dragon that allows for a guileless, direct exploration of love that is nevertheless (sometimes) satisfying. As I've argued, I think this is one of the primary appeals of young adult fiction-- including, yes, the Twilight phenomenon-- that it allows frank and unapologetic access to discussion of deep emotions for young people struggling with a period of great intensity.
The problem comes from two directions. The first is, yes, attitudes like Patterson's, where there is a kind of studied refusal to countenance the complexity of narrative, emotion, and drama behind the superficial childishness of the subject matter. Sci fi and fantasy can't survive readings that aren't charitable enough to consider them on their own terms, but then very few works of art can. Patterson's review is so gleeful in its superficiality, and so grating in the incongruity between the show it is describing and the show I saw last night, that I can only think that he made up his mind before he watched it. (And by the way, if you don't go out with a young woman you're attracted to because she likes to go to Renaissance fairs, you're just a loser. I imagine Patterson and Ross Douthat, sitting around complaining about the women who had the temerity to be attracted to them.)
The other side of the problem comes from the defenders of fanboy culture, who are in turn not discriminating enough about the actual narrative and dramatic content worked into the genre elements. This may in part be a reaction to exactly the dismissal of people like Patterson, though as I've long said, fanboys seem altogether too quick to imagine that dismissal everywhere, and to their discredit. Personally, I find most geek/fanboy art-- and I use those terms because in my experience, that is how such people self-identify-- to be, well, pretty shitty. Lots of bad sci fi and fantasy never actually gets around to dealing with anything that is important to me as an adult consumer of media. And if you'll forgive me for painting with a broad brush, it really is true that these genres and media have a consistent problem with expressing human romantic and sexual relationships in a way that adults care about. Many do, but in my limited experience, many more don't.
Attitudes like Patterson's do certain aggrieved geeks the favor of confirming their suspicions that the world is full of people who dismiss individual works because of their genre or media. It's those generalized dismissals that people rightly rail against. I will continue to insist that this is actually committed much more often against art that is considered difficult or high brow, and I will also insist that it's far better to get the kind of art you want produced, as sci fi, fantasy, and comic book geeks do, than it is to achieve some sort of nebulous concept of critical respect. But that's no reason for reviewers not to get it right.
Ultimately, I've just got to say-- I think Patterson's piece is perfectly typical of the particular pathologies of Slate. I've long been struck by the fact that being a permanent arts and culture writer for Slate seems to require a general contempt for every actual artistic or commercial product. It's not that they never produce positive reviews, but that the general posture of Slate's criticism seems to be the defensive crouch. And there is a kind of fussy relationship to cultural signaling that makes it all worse. I used to listen to Slate's Audio Book Club a lot. One of the permanent projects of my adulthood is to spend less time hating myself, so I had to give it up. But if you listen to more than a few of these podcasts-- featuring a rotating cast of characters like Patterson, Stephen Metcalf, and Katie Roiphe-- what will strike you is the relentless negativity demonstrated towards these great books. In a completely unscientific way, I'll suggest that the dominant majority of the opinions in the podcast are negative, if not outright hateful.
I'm less concerned with the spectacle of a bunch of writers complaining bitchily about talents like Cormac McCarthy or Joan Didion or F. Scott Fitzgerald than I am with the way in which this represents a growing trend of criticism oriented towards resentment. Observe someone like Nathan Rabin, who let slip today that he sees being a film critic as an exercise in perpetual disappointment; this is in keeping with my general sense of his work at the AV Club. My intuition, which is perhaps unfair, is that this is likely a product of anxiety based on having your professional life dedicated towards considering other people's art.
That might sound like a blanket condemnation of reviewers, but in fact it's anything but. Good, muscular criticism is crucial to the artistic enterprise. I think being a professional critic can be a deeply valuable enterprise. Without critics, media can very easily devolve into perpetual ass-kissing. I like and respect Tina Fey, for example, and am eager to read her book, but I've been put off by how often, in the promotional tour she's doing, she comes back to the slights she's received on the Internet. Particularly because she gets, I would say, rather glowing press in general, it makes me wonder what unanimity of praise would satisfy her. There's no sense in which a critical eye is unnecessary or unwanted. But weariness-- which I find more and more reviewers trying to cultivate in their work-- is fatal for a critic. If you are too weary of bad art to give charitable readings to good or middling art, time to hang 'em up.
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Martin's writing is pretty painful, but I thought that the acting/cinematography of the televised version actually helped it a great deal. Anyway I eagerly await the day when someone comes along in the fantasy genre who can really, truly write.
- April 18, 2011 at 4:55 PM
i think 'temerity' is exactly what it would take to be attracted to douthat
- April 18, 2011 at 6:38 PM
I think AV Club has some really really solid reviewers. Rabin is awesome--he's an excellent writer and nothing os funnier than reading a takedown of a really crappy movie. But I agree, I sometimes feel like I'm reading gawker with all the snark and just general negative energy. I find AV Club mostly tolerable and most in line with my tastes. But yes as much as I like Rabin that tone towards all things takes its toll. The rest of the reviewers you mentioned are awful, they can all go to hell. Who do they think they are? I'll gladly take their jobs. Smug elitist assholes. Right on, Freddie.
And I agree in general. Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses--excellent books that I HAVE read, and no I am not an academic or English major. Get over it.
- April 18, 2011 at 7:11 PM
Perpetual disappointment is about right, however. Consider worthless, superficial dreck like Gran Torino and The Blind Side. Stories with the potential to be great but were executed like an after school special.
And most critics loved those movies...
- April 18, 2011 at 7:55 PM
- Michael said...
Of course we have just seen one episode (I less than that). But from what I have seen, I can't perceive any reason to prefer this particular bit of 'quasi-medieval, dragon-ridden fantasy-crap' to "The Tudors," and I think that says all that really needs to be said.
- April 19, 2011 at 3:15 AM
- Michael said...
I'll also say that I think you got the Slate Audio Book Club thing just about exactly right - with Patterson, if I am not mistaken, leading the way by a good distance in the regularity and particular mien of his disdain for just about every text (though when he's goes positive, he goes positive -- it just has to be at contrary times!). Which is just to say that Patterson really isn't doing anything particularly wrong here - he's just being Patterson. And I don't think it's any surprise that you find his work such a representative of Slate's overall critical sound: his is one of the most regular, distinctive, and strongest critical voices defining that sound! (If you think you have a background sense of the generic Slate-itude apart from Patterson's contributions, in any case, I think you need to do more to describe and base that sense in criticism of your own - if it's worth it to you).
I'm not a fan of Patterson's, but I don;t think he's doing any particular harm with the particular negative attitude he brings to pop culture, and indeed, mostly, when he applies it to higher texts as well. He is a critic, after all. My main objection to his modus operandi is his slavish devotion to a surprisingly un-nuanced contrarianism defined by aversion to press hype in the case of new pop works, and by revisionist reaction to establishment critical acclaim in the case of established art.
I find no fault with him for not necessarily conceding artistic merit to works only on the basis of their theraputic value to teens and tweens.
You also neglect to credit him with the fact that in this piece he cops to an acritical dislike for the genre he is reviewing that amounts to a disclaimer admitting that he can't read this GoT adaptation on its own terms - i.e. saying essentially, 'For a level assessment it is best to go else where; I'll be unable to elevate above snark in this instance."
Troy Patterson's problem is not the he has that incapacity here where he owns to it on account of genre; to the extent he is a fundamentally flawed critic, it is because he perhaps also exhibits that problem elsewhere, where he doesn't.
- April 19, 2011 at 3:40 AM
- Michael said...
Oh, I meant to add: good art - whether classic or contemprary - can most certainly survive the onslaught of the Troy Pattersons of the world (a point you have made well w/r/t particular texts and other critics here recently). And bad art? Well, that's what we keep our Troy Pattersons around for anyways! A broken clock...
- April 19, 2011 at 3:44 AM
- Daniel said...
Good post.
For some reason though I think it might be worth mentioning Mass Effect 2 as some Science Fiction that is good and good for all the right reasons. Reading your post made me think of your post on ME2 from months back.
- April 19, 2011 at 11:30 PM
Wonderfully said. Especially the bit about "what degree of unanimity of praise" Tina Fey might be happy with. I like her immensely, I love her work, but the non-stop kvetching about oh how hard she works, all the time, so hard to be a working mom with nannies and assistants, oh so hard is beginning to grate on me.
Slate's whole reason for being is to annoy, I'm pretty sure. I don't know what happened with Rabin at the AV Club- he was my favorite there but since his book came out, his articles are extremely half-assed and distracted. No one's forcing him to write endlessly about a K-Tel series of pop music from two years ago, finding something new to say about Beyoncé every week. His recent recaps of 30 Rock are terrible - he gets things wrong, you wonder if he was on the phone watching it. "Jellybeans" is a thing now, Rabin . Step it up.
- April 20, 2011 at 9:34 PM
- Murph said...
I can't speak for anyone else, but writing a negative review can, in many instances, be much more difficult than writing a glowing one--particularly if you suspect (or know) the piece in question is getting consensus props from the so-called establishment. Of course this stance assumes that the reviewer in question is approaching the enterprise with some degree of integrity.
That there is more snarkiness in blogs and online in general is pretty much indisputable, in part because the Internets have provided any/everyone with an outlet. (I had a few things to say about this regarding some self-righteous remarks Steven Wilson --a musician I greatly admire-- made last year, here: http://bullmurph.com/2010/09/28/steven-wilson-the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much-part-two-the-fury/).
Nevertheless, I think some of the hipster-ish anti-consensus you may be alluding to (vis a vis Slate and The Onion) is only partly mitigating an increasingly commercialized pop-culture landscape: for every movie with a $100 M budget and corresponding product lines rolled out opening weekend, we have critics calling out the crassness. I guess I'm suggesting that the negativity --if it in fact exists-- is doing little to overwhelm the calculated cynicism of Pop-culture providers.
The fact that the vast majority of genre-based pop culture sucks is beside the point. Or is it?
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New email app Mailbox, which was launched by Orchestra last month, has been acquired by Dropbox. In a post on the company's blog, the Mailbox team said that this acquisition was about accelerating growth for Mailbox.
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Mailbox acquired by Dropbox
Company acquired before I am even still able to access it after waiting nearly a month. I should be down in the 10s of thousands hopefully. Have not checked in a few days.
I've just started using Mailbox and find it nice. I'm currently thinking of merging my professional emails with my personal to really use its full potential.
Now regarding dropbox, well with all these cloud storage solutions out there (including the 50 Gb from Mega) I have to admit that I just dropped dropbox... The icon takes dust in the last icon page.
Maybe if dropbox could benefit from Mailbox's interface and ease of use, I would consider giving it another try.
I have been using Mailbox for quite sometime now, and I absolutely LOVE IT. As a matter of fact, I have forwarded my work and another email address to GMAIL.
I really think that Dropbox will be able to make it a better app, and I am happy that it was not Google that bought them out so they could sit on it for 238923892 months.
Still waiting for my Mailbox invite to come through. Gave up on waiting. Love Dropbox though, I can only imagine good things around the corner for it.
Over it. No support for aliases and when I first opened app it asked me if I wanted to archive my starred items. Sure, I thought, why not. It didn't mention that default setting was to remove all stars when it archived messages. Lost 3 years worth of stars.
I wonder if this means that mailbox will now have dropbox integration so that you can send files directly from your dropbox account? I was one of the fortunate few that got mailbox in the first days it came out and find it severely lacking in functionality it has a nice user interface that is very limited in what it can do by Apple.
Whoa, did not expect this. I understand from Mailbox's point of view how Dropbox will help it expand much faster. I wonder if Dropbox will integrate portions of Mailbox somehow?
Gmail and Outlook better watch out now cause we have a deadly combination here. Any word on acquisition price?
Never been big on Dropbox because I have always used Sugar Sync. I looooove Mailbox though and hope that the Dropbox people don't screw around with it too much unless it improves! I just want to see access to more services like Yahoo mail. Also, they need to get rid of the "lists" which is useless and give us access to our tags/folders instead. Give me all of that and I could fully let go of the stock mail app!
I bet Dropbox will make Mailbox soooo much better.
Should be interesting
In still in waits for the app, I did notice it started flowing out faster the other day, I've got 138,000 people in front of me, but seeing as how Dropbox is nice and fast, I'm hoping it really does help Mailbox out.
yet another company killed by Dropbox. ugh.
I just hope they do not kill the app the way Google killed Sparrow.
I only found out about Sparrow when I read about the acquisition by Google. It sounded like a great app and one I would have purchased. It does kind of irk me, however, that they continue to charge full price for the app when they openly stated they will no longer develop for it. At least drop the price.
I was really hoping Apple would buy them but I guess Mailbox is a power user app not for the average user. Good move for Dropbox
I have really enjoyed my new mailbox app but hopefully with Dropbox now involved we will get support for all other email other than gmail.
Haven't been able to get into the mailbox app. Something about inbox zero that I feel would make me crazy.
Another one swallowed up by Dropbox. Last one was Audiogalaxy (they never did anything with that product, still, that I know of)... and before that it was an image site/service which I can't even remember who it was, because they disappeared into obscurity...
My question is— is Dropbox buying these products/companies to use and integrate their technologies, or are they merely "buying out the competition"?
Honestly, I see no evidence of either. Post-acquisition, I never see these purchased products or technologies integrated or implemented in any noticeable form... and I don't quite see how Mailbox could be considered "competition".
Mailbox excels at one thing above all others— and it's not making tremendous, innovative apps... it's "EFFECTIVE MARKETING". They know how to create demand for a product, simple as that. Are there millions of people waiting in queue for months and months because the app is just THAT mind blowing?!
No. In fact, probably half the people in the queue don't know what the hell the app even does, specifically! Or looks like, for that matter! Ask them why they're waiting in line forever as they all are willing to do: "What feature(s) are you excited about once you get a chance to use the app?", etc...
50% will not have an answer— bet.
It's a classic case of herd mentality and implementation of concepts that pull a little from economics, sociology and psychology... and it has clearly worked beautifully.
My point is not to demean the app. I'm not claiming it's not an excellent app. I don't know, because I'm still in queue, LOL! Even I'm not above the hype— knowing very well I'm just another puppet of marketing appeal. That's what I'm talking about, though! Why am I interested in it, even? Because so many other people are, I suppose. It's human nature— socio-economic psychology. What about the app? What app?
Oh, right. The one I'm in line to try, Mailbox, was it? Yeah... can't wait until I finally get through the line! I'm really excited about— whatever it does. I don't exactly know, but it's gotta be pretty cool if there's such a huge demand for it!
WRONG. A shrewd marketing campaign/salesman could have the masses queued up to smell a turd. "Demand" has no reliable correlation to the quality, usefulness, effectiveness (etc...) of a product or service. It DOES carry that connotation, but it can be a false inference. Look at Justin Beiber. He's the metaphorical polished turd I speak of... and his record company and sponsors have millions of people just relishing the stench wafting off of that steaming dog pile! Does that imply talent? Yes. False inference? I don't know. You tell me... haha. Just kidding with all that; I understand the reality of subjective opinion and the philosophical debate of universal truths or lack thereof.
So what is my point after talking about turds and telling you how my day went, etc? My point was that maybe THAT is the reason this acquired company is seen as valuable to Dropbox— not so much their product, but their savvy marketing skills. Just my thoughts. Seems an odd acquisition to me. It's like McDonald's buying out Lowe's or Home Depot (home improvement retail chains, for non-Americans). You'd have to pause, at least for a second, to go "huh?"...
I've been on board with Dropbox for sometime now. My wife and I share an account for family stuff and I have a separate one for my real estate business. Dropbox ties in awesomely with so many apps that I use for business.
I started using Mailbox on my two work addresses about a month ago. I love the interface and the functionality of the app.
So, two companies that I kinda like are now in bed together and I'm not sure how I feel about it. My first thought was excitement that maybe some of the Mailbox design would seep into Dropbox. The DB app isn't bad, it's just not gee-whiz, blow me away cool. I'm really hoping for some sweet synergy.
Just wait til they get really successful. Then their competition will start an ad campaign urging us all to "think outside the 'Box".
With Mailbox and Dropbox everything will be in the box! :D
Yeah! i'm excited to see how they will improve Mailbox, and which features might be waiting for! especially me cause i have everyday tons of email!! let see if they will help me to let them more organized!! and see how far i'll be saving time.
Does anyone know how Dropbox makes money?
one of my favorite apps. The integration of the mailbox and drop box would be cool
I've found that because of Mailbox I use Gmail more frequently. The app has a clean UI and the experience is just awesome. Hopefully with Dropbox they will be able to expand the app and offer support for other email accounts.
Oh good thing, because I was only like number 818,205th in line... Not sure how this will affect the quality of the app, but I'm guessing will be for the better for the company to scale up.
Hi Folks,
Can anybody explain to me why would some company implement such a big project and give it away for free? Honestly I don't get it... not that I don't like it... but why?
Also, what is the security of such products if you have to give your password to gmail account? I am still a bit hesitant to share it. Maybe if we knew that it is not stored on Mailbox servers or encrypted in some way. Again I am not an expert but it would be great to hear some answers how does it work. Anybody?
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Happy Halloweeen Y'all!
We have a very special bride featured today - my 10 year old red-headed stepdaughter! (Literally) She's not your typical blushing bride....she's a zombie. An undead child zombie bride. Creepy. Yes. Bizarre. Yes. Totally awesome. Absolutely yes!
When she told me she wanted to be a zombie bride, my ears perked up. I have an okay sewing skill set - perfect for costumes that are only seen at night. I have a wee bit of knowledge about the construction of gowns (I mean I should right? I work for a couture wedding dress company), so I thought I would give it a shot. Her dress was very loosely based on a Verona bodice and an Avila Bay tulle skirt without the poof.
It took me about three days to complete the look, including the veil. I was proud of my accomplishment, but as I got closer to finishing the dress I became a bit saddened at the thought of distressing my "masterpiece". Even though I knew in my heart it was the best thing to do...distress it to take eyes away from the weirdo seams, the lopsided capped sleeve, the ill-fitting bodice. Now that would make it perfect.
It was a very rewarding experience working with her. I took her to the fabric store. I let her choose her own fabric and pattern. She even picked out the zipper. She helped every step of the way and asked questions the whole time. I felt like Tim Gunn. Hello designers! But the best part was seeing her soaking up everything I was teaching her. I didn't think she would be into sewing at all, but she totally is. I am even signing us both up for sewing classes at the local JoAnne's. And I need it!
I love that she thinks my job is cool. I love she is interested in fashion. I love she wants her own sewing machine for Christmas. She even watches Project Runway with me. It's an amazing feeling knowing that I inspired her. And all of this over a Halloween costume.
Anyway, I digress....here are the before and after pics of my masterpiece. After is definitely MUCH better. And that is why I will not be personally making your dress. You're welcome.
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45 Retweets 92 favoritesSchaub (10-3) was a finalist on The Ultimate Fighter 10, and his nine fights in the UFC were all under his TUF contract. He went 6-3 overall in those bouts, picking up wins over the likes of Gabriel Gonzaga and Mirko Cro Cop along the way. He was knocked out twice in a row by Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Ben Rothwell in late 2011 and early 2012, but rebounded with two straight wins over Lavar Johnson and Matt Mitrione.
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On May 30, Perrysburg musician Ryan Dunlap found himself in the middle of Fifth Third Field performing the national anthem with a malfunctioning microphone.
"I'm pumped up and then nothing; it just didn't work," Dunlap said. "But we got through it."
A worker was quick to replace the microphone, and once the crowd could hear him, his next fear was forgetting the lyrics like so many before him.
"How many famous people have we seen that have messed the words up or really cracked on that high note? I didn't want to be that guy," Dunlap said. "I was really, really scared honestly, which is kind of a new thing for me. I don't really get nervous; I've been wanting to be the center of attention since however I can remember, like long before it was about music, and I was scared s***less."
Even though Dunlap said he's known the words to the national anthem since he was 5 years old, performing the song in front of the crowd made him second-guess himself. Halfway through the game, after his performance, Dunlap left to go do a gig but received a text message from his sister saying he had just performed for 11,500 people.
The performance was part of an eventful summer, which will include the release of his album "It Is What It Is," an album two years in the making and made possible with 76 backers on a Kickstarter campaign. The goal of the campaign was to raise $1,500 to help fund the production side of things, but rose more than double that in 30 days.
The album touches on "a little bit of everything," including heartbreak and death, Dunlap said.
"I'm good at writing sad songs," he said. "There's a time and a place to write the happy and upbeat song, and I feel like I can, [but] for me the greatest songs that we've ever heard are those heartbreak, honest songs like 'Tears of Heaven' [and] 'Heaven.'"
The album's title comes from Dunlap's outlook on life.
"The past is the past even if you look back," he said, citing a lyric on the album. "It doesn't matter. … You have to learn to roll with the punches and just take it."
The album was released June 24 on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. It features 14 tracks, all written by Dunlap, and recorded, mixed and mastered by Brett Dennison of FireFly Studios.
The album's third track, "Black Turns Blue," is a duet with local favorite Kyle White.
"The first verse is all me, the second verse is all her and then we just harmonize the s*** out of the rest of it," Dunlap said.
When Dunlap presented the song, she gladly agreed to participate.
"He was very easy to work with and I felt that he truly appreciated what I brought to the song," White said. "I thought it was lovely and told him would gladly lend my voice."
Much collaboration went into making the album, from Jason Goss on drums, Justin Marchand on guitar and Alex Scheer playing the trumpet on "Burned."
"I did my best to find the most talented people I could find and at the same time the most cool, down-to-earth people," Dunlap said. "The thing about the music industry is there's some people that are just douchey."
Dunlap has been performing locally for five years now, frequenting places like Bar 145 ("Playing out there on their patios is awesome") and Perrysburg's Belle Wine and Martini Lounge ("It may not always be the greatest place for my age … but the sound in that room is amazing.")
Music has always been part of Dunlap's life. He recalls a time in junior high when he lost a part to sing "I Just Can't To Be King" from "The Lion King" in the school choir show.
"It was so childish but I totally should've gotten this part and she gave it to somebody else and her reason was 'Well, you won't fit in the costume,'" Dunlap said. "I failed the class because … I just quit. I didn't go to the final performance."
After his father died in 2001, he began to write poetry to deal with grief. He was motivated by a friend to learn how to play guitar to make his poetry into songs. He began making music then.
Dunlap said everyone is invited to celebrate his album release at Bar 145, 5305 Monroe St., on July 8. He plans to play the album in its entirety with everyone involved. Dunlap will also play at Belle Wine and Martini Lounge, 3145 Hollister Lane, on his birthday July 16.
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Its finished! I'm so happy with how it turned out. I couldn't decide how to quilt it (Thank you for all your great ideas!) but I finally decided to do straight quilting in a grid pattern around the seams. It looks more boy-ish, and really makes each square pop. It took awhile, but after quilting 124 straight lines I'm still really glad that I did it myself, on my machine. There's a sense of pride that comes with finishing a quilt all by yourself from start to finish, I'm sure all of you that quilt yourself know what I'm talking about don't you?
I pieced a strip through the back so this could be reversible when I want something simple. And so I can turn it over when needed, since this will be on my 2 year old's bed.....yikes.


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What Was the Best TV Episode of 2012? (POLL)
2012 was a banner year for television — just ask our overloaded DVRs. Seriously, the amount of good telly out there is an embarrassment of riches. But brace yourself, readers, because we're about to ask the impossible of you: to choose your favorite episode of scripted TV that aired in 2012.
We canvassed our favorite Wetpaint Entertainment shows (and assorted others to which we're addicted, as well) and rounded up the following list of standout installments. Did you love the relationship pile-up of Glee's "The Break-Up"? The gut-wrenching Revenge finale, "Reckoning"? The familial fallout of Dexter's "Are You...?" The blood-curdling terrors of American Horror Story: Asylum's "I Am Anne Frank" double feature? Or yet another one? Sound off below!
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These programs aim to assist parents in helping children manage their weight and live healthy lifestyles with specific activities and milestones.
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Choir, under the direction of Michael Lamkin,
bring us the first in a series of musical evenings at
the Athenaeum.
The two groups will perform the famous Reformation
Cantata no. 80, "Ein feste Burg" ("A Mighty Fortress"), by Johann Sebastian Bach. This cantata was
composed in 1730 by Bach and later rewritten by his
son, Wilhelm Friedman, to include trumpets and tympani in order to make it more "flashy." The latter
edition is the one being used this evening.
Cantata no. 80, opening with a large contrapuntal
section for full orchestra and chorus, includes soprano,
alto, tenor, and bass solos sung by student musicians.
Michael Lamkin, music director and conductor of the
joint music program of the four colleges-CMC, HMC,
Scripps, and Pitzer-will make a short presentation on
the life of Bach. This will be followed by the cantata,
which lasts approximately 20 minutes.
Chef Robert is preparing a special dinner that Bach
and his family would have enjoyed.
The program begins at 7:00, following a 5:30 reception
and 6:00 dinner.
studies expert Robert O'Neill. Formerly director of
the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mr.
O'Neill speaks on "Germany and the Destruction of
Europe in 1940."
Born in Australia in 1936, O'Neill was educated at the
Royal Military College of Australia and the University of
Melbourne, graduating in engineering in 1960. After
winning the Rhodes Scholarship, he studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Brasenose College,
Oxford. Currently the Chichele Professor of the History
of War, All Souls College, Oxford University, Mr.
O'Neill fought in Vietnam as an infantry captain for the
Australian Regular Army.
Mr. O'Neill has edited numerous books, including
The Strategic Nuclear Balance: An Australian Perspective (1974), The Conduct of East-West
Relations in the 1980's (1985), and Doctrine, Alliance, and Arms
Control (1987). He was also commissioned by the Australian
government to write a full history of Australia's participation in the Korean War.
Please join Mr. O'Neill at the Athenaeum for a 5:30
reception, 6:00 dinner, and 7:00 talk. Your dinner
reservation may be made by filling out and returning
the enclosed coupon.
to international prominence during the accident at
the Three-Mile Island nuclear power facility. Her book,
Nuclear Madness (1990), had just been published, released at a
chillingly appropriate time. Since then Dr. Caldicott has
become one of the most outspoken activists for environmental hygiene in the 20th century.
Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization
of which Caldicott was a founding member, was
awarded the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for its work to end
the Soviet/American nuclear arms race. However, as the
threat of superpower conflict and nuclear war are
relegated to the back burner of public concern, Dr.
Caldicott continues her fight for the environment
through grass roots activism. Her focus now turns to
ozone layer depletion and the greenhouse effect.
In addition to Nuclear Madness (1990), Dr. Caldicott's works
include the 1984 publication, Missile Envy, and the 1982
Academy Award-winning film, If You Love This Planet.
Please join us at 7:00 p.m. for what promises to be an
insightful and motivating lecture titled "Our Valuable
Planet." If you would like to join us at the 5:30 reception
and 6:00 dinner, please return the reservation coupon.
manages the environment for this state. Peter
Bontadelli's responsibilities touch on everything from
real estate development to the protection of wildlife,
from California's water resources to land management.
Mr. Bontadelli is a fourth-generation Californian; he
was raised in Salinas. He received his B.A. in political
science from the University of California at Davis.
In 1984 Mr. Bontadelli joined the Department of Fish
and Game, where his early duties included legislation,
review of Environmental Services Branch material, and
the coordination of several special task forces, including
white bass, San Joaquin Valley drain problems, and
threatened and endangered programs. He became
director in 1987.
Mr. Bontadelli's address, "Can Government Manage
the Environment?" begins at 7:00 p.m. This program is
being presented by The John Brown Cook Association.
If you would like to join us for the reception and dinner
prior to the address, please fill out the reservation
will entertain tea-goers in the Arthur Adams
Courtyard at the Athenaeum. The musicians in the
group include: Mike Lindeman '91, Rob Campbell '91,
Bill Purdy '93, and Andrew McClearn '91.
Come and enjoy the mellow sounds of music in
the pleasant California outdoors.
its series having public figures describe the influence that masterworks of Western literature have
exerted on their professional and private lives. CMC's
founding trustee Donald McKenna opened the program
with his enthusiastically received "My Homer." Edward
S. Gould '65, a highly successful private investor and
chairman of the Gould Center's board of governors,
followed with an engaging discussion of the continuing
relevance of Machiavelli's The Prince (1513) in his life. Now
Donald A. Henriksen, CMC's vice president for research, reveals how Shakespeare's great history plays,
Henry IV, parts 1 (1587) and 2 (1596), and Henry V (1599), have affected his
own career and development.
Mr. Henriksen served on the Rose Institute of State
and Local Government's board of governors and CMC's
board of trustees before becoming vice president for
research in 1987. He worked many years for Atlantic
Richfield Co.: as exploration manager, project director
of North Slope coordination, and vice president of
government and constituency relations. Prior to his
association with ARCO, Mr. Henriksen played professional basketball with the Baltimore Bullets and
Rochester Royals. It was during his stint as an NBA
cager that he completed his PhD in geology at Stanford.
Mr. Henriksen's address begins at 7:00 p.m., following a reception at 5:30 and dinner at 6:00.
series of speakers addressing diversity in America.
The series is sponsored by the Gould Center for
Humanistic Studies, and has been organized by Dr.
Robert Faggen, this year's director of the Gould Center
academic seminar.
Dr. Bunzel, besides enjoying a well-deserved reputation as an outstanding scholar and educator in political
science, is a highly recognized and vocal authority on
the implications of cultural, ethnic, and social diversity.
His extensive writing on affirmative action programs
has inspired much controversy and focused debate. He
has been director of the Northern California Citizenship
Clearing House, a member of the California attorney
general's Advisory Committee on Constitutional
Rights, and a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National
Convention. A member of the faculty of San Francisco
State University in the late '60s. Dr. Bunzel's activities
during those tumultuous times catapulted him to the
presidency of San Jose State University, which position
he held from 1970-1978. He is currently a senior
research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Among the several books Dr. Bunzel has written are
Anti-Politics in America: Reflections on the Anti-Political Temper and Its Distortions of thre Democratic Process (1979), Issues of American Public Policy (1964),
and Challenge to American Schools: The Case for Standards
and Values (1987). He has contributed articles to numerous
scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers, and
writes a weekly column for the San Jose Mercury-News.
He is the 1990 recipient of the Policy Studies Organization's Hubert H. Humphrey Award for outstanding
achievement as a public policy practitioner.
Dr. Bunzel's address begins at 7:00 p.m., following a
reception at 5:30 and dinner at 6:00.
interest in citizen diplomacy, Paul Schurke set in
motion his dreams for the Bering Bridge Expedition
and, in the process, helped melt the "Ice Curtain" that
divided the United States and the U.S.S.R.
In 1989 Paul Schurke and Soviet explorer Dmitry
Shparo, co-led a team of six Americans and six Soviets
on a 1,000-mile, two-month ski and dog sled trek from
Siberia to Alaska via the treacherous ocean waters of the
Bering Strait. Mr. Schurke's involvement in the Bering
Bridge Expedition led to a diplomatic accord between
the United States and the Soviet Union, and also helped
link two dozen remote villages on both sides of the
Pres. George Bush and Pres. Mikhail Gorbachev both
hailed Mr. Schurke's Bering Bridge journey for helping
to strengthen relations and ties between Asia and
America. On April 23, 1989, the nine-man, three-
woman expedition stood on the sea ice in the middle of
the Bering Strait at the International Dateline. Both
American and Soviet diplomats joined them at this
"global seam," where a protocol was signed that would
ease United States and Soviet border restrictions,
enabling Bering region natives once again to travel
freely across those waters. Mr. Schurke's experience on
the expedition is chronicled in his book, The Bering
Bridge Expedition-Connecting Cultures and Continents (1989).
Please join us at Mr. Schurke's slide and video
presentation titled "Thawing the Ice Curtain: The Story
of Bering Bridge, the Soviet-American Expedition from
Siberia to Alaska." Your dinner reservations may be
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He held it,but didn't torque it, Peirce walked out on his own. The man is a killer, watching Mike try to avoid that lock was kinda scarey, I think your going to have fighters decline fighting Palhares because he is so dangerous.
I really hope something's done about palhares. The guy is a disgrace to the sport!
My Favorite Fighters
1)Gray Maynard 2)Dan Henderson 3)Minotauro Nogueira 4)Wanderlei Silva 5)Roy Nelson 6)Tim Boetsch 7)Mark Hunt 8)Shogun Rua 9)Lyoto Machida 10) Connor McGregor
4 seconds too long is way long. No matter if it's being torqued or not.
Can someone please send me a you know what. Don't have fox sports 1.
Heavyweights above top 10 are so ridiculously boring to watch....It's just 2 big men throwing wild punches at each other with complete disregard for technique.
I don't know why,but I don't have a problem with the leg lock, maybe im just having a bad day or something, either way he isnt getting cut, it's gonna be used in marketing.
Hamill vs. Thiago has to fights, Hamill vs Thiago,and Thiago vs drug test,lol. Even is Silva wins,he might lose.
I find Matt just isn't willing to evolve as a fighter, the worst part is he makes good fighters look bad also, he is fucking quicksand.
Hamill is so goddamn listless. He throws some nice stuff here and there, but over a fifteen minute fight, he just looks to fight in a complete daze.
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