Here I am, drinking a rather overpriced wine (terrible for 10 Euros!) and thinking about all the odd things lately goin on in my life.
So I guess first off, I understand now why French people don't particularly like sushi. Because it sucks here. Seriously, I just got home from a so called restaurant Japanois, and I'm severely disappointed. First off, the miso was crap. It wasn't even really cloudy, just warm water, with all of one, yes one, piece of tofu and I think 3 pieces of seaweed. This was served along with what seemed to be coleslaw with onion. So very Japanese...
Onto the actual sushi...le sigh. So I get it, and admittedly it looks impressive until you pick it up. The whole damn thing was rice! Just a thin slice of fish covering this mound of rice! Hell, if the rice would have been good, but it was really sugary. The rolls were just as bad, as they were not actually closed, they just hid the fact that one side wasn't rolled shut by placing them together. Jesus. I have to say that was one thing Houston was great for, the sushi there was amazing. Actually, in general the seafood there was really well done, those yanks know how to do their sea creatures.
The second point, I just had to shake my head and chuckle to myself today. One of the common things to do in my job is setting up a bunch of data to be processed on a Friday afternoon and letting it run over the weekend, as it often takes a couple of days. However, these jobs can crash, and how. It's a big problem, imagine you submit it all to the computer on Friday at 6, go home, and it all crashes at 7. You're boned. What was common in Houston and Calgary, was you would drop in on Saturday or Sunday afternoon for an hour or less, get your jobs back up and running then get on with your weekend. I mean, whatever, it's an hour out of your time and you make life a helluva lot easier for you the next week. Good investment if you ask me. So I asked the people in the office here if that was common practice, as I assumed it would be, and I got shocked looks in return. "Oh no, you can't do that, you have to fill out a form and get it signed by the centre manager if you want to do that. It's a big deal." I guess I should have expected a form to sign, but wow, just wow. French people are just strange sometimes.
Last night I started watching The Human Weapon series that was on the History Channel. Basically two guys (one an MMA fighter and the other a former football player and wrestler) who go around the world learning martial arts. At the beginning of the episode, they meet one of the top masters/trainers/senseis/whatever who says that in a two weeks time (or however long) they are welcome to come to his gym and he will choose one to fight his top fighter. So they go around to a bunch of dojos/gyms and learn some specific techniques of the art and the history of it all, and go fight the champ. While the champ obviously takes it easy on them, it's a fun show to watch. The guys are entertaining and do actually know about fighting, not like the complete idiots they usually have on these shows. For the most part (as far as my knowledge can confirm) they are very historically accurate, and get information from the masters themselves. A very good show if you can catch it, or download it.
On the one show, I was watching them learn muay thai (of course!) and they went to a kru in the jungle who was teaching muay chaiya. This is one of the older forms of muay thai, which the ring sport of today descends from. It is known for the elbow techniques and being extremely aggressive. How do I know this? Well, Mike Miles is the only person in North America qualified to teach it. Watching the fighters fight it was absolutely amazing, it was the most intense fighting I've ever seen anywhere. All the defensive moves were blocking with an elbow (basically an offensive move) and then using that to counter-attack. Imagine two guys going at it the camera can hardly catch it, and they are not landing a single actual blow on each other. I'm going to find a way to edit the scene and upload it for everyone to see, as it is awesome.
Allright all, more interesting tidbits later.
So I guess first off, I understand now why French people don't particularly like sushi. Because it sucks here. Seriously, I just got home from a so called restaurant Japanois, and I'm severely disappointed. First off, the miso was crap. It wasn't even really cloudy, just warm water, with all of one, yes one, piece of tofu and I think 3 pieces of seaweed. This was served along with what seemed to be coleslaw with onion. So very Japanese...
Onto the actual sushi...le sigh. So I get it, and admittedly it looks impressive until you pick it up. The whole damn thing was rice! Just a thin slice of fish covering this mound of rice! Hell, if the rice would have been good, but it was really sugary. The rolls were just as bad, as they were not actually closed, they just hid the fact that one side wasn't rolled shut by placing them together. Jesus. I have to say that was one thing Houston was great for, the sushi there was amazing. Actually, in general the seafood there was really well done, those yanks know how to do their sea creatures.
The second point, I just had to shake my head and chuckle to myself today. One of the common things to do in my job is setting up a bunch of data to be processed on a Friday afternoon and letting it run over the weekend, as it often takes a couple of days. However, these jobs can crash, and how. It's a big problem, imagine you submit it all to the computer on Friday at 6, go home, and it all crashes at 7. You're boned. What was common in Houston and Calgary, was you would drop in on Saturday or Sunday afternoon for an hour or less, get your jobs back up and running then get on with your weekend. I mean, whatever, it's an hour out of your time and you make life a helluva lot easier for you the next week. Good investment if you ask me. So I asked the people in the office here if that was common practice, as I assumed it would be, and I got shocked looks in return. "Oh no, you can't do that, you have to fill out a form and get it signed by the centre manager if you want to do that. It's a big deal." I guess I should have expected a form to sign, but wow, just wow. French people are just strange sometimes.
Last night I started watching The Human Weapon series that was on the History Channel. Basically two guys (one an MMA fighter and the other a former football player and wrestler) who go around the world learning martial arts. At the beginning of the episode, they meet one of the top masters/trainers/senseis/whatever who says that in a two weeks time (or however long) they are welcome to come to his gym and he will choose one to fight his top fighter. So they go around to a bunch of dojos/gyms and learn some specific techniques of the art and the history of it all, and go fight the champ. While the champ obviously takes it easy on them, it's a fun show to watch. The guys are entertaining and do actually know about fighting, not like the complete idiots they usually have on these shows. For the most part (as far as my knowledge can confirm) they are very historically accurate, and get information from the masters themselves. A very good show if you can catch it, or download it.
On the one show, I was watching them learn muay thai (of course!) and they went to a kru in the jungle who was teaching muay chaiya. This is one of the older forms of muay thai, which the ring sport of today descends from. It is known for the elbow techniques and being extremely aggressive. How do I know this? Well, Mike Miles is the only person in North America qualified to teach it. Watching the fighters fight it was absolutely amazing, it was the most intense fighting I've ever seen anywhere. All the defensive moves were blocking with an elbow (basically an offensive move) and then using that to counter-attack. Imagine two guys going at it the camera can hardly catch it, and they are not landing a single actual blow on each other. I'm going to find a way to edit the scene and upload it for everyone to see, as it is awesome.
Allright all, more interesting tidbits later.
posted by Poshy at 1:18 PM
3 Comments:
yes do upload that, or point in the right direction! My diet of fighting clips is usually limited to big, slow-hitting guys.
how are the french on seafood in general? it never struck me as a french speciality.
Well, motherfucker camiesta personalizada, you can go fuck yourself. I am now in the process of filing a complaint both at your website and with Google. NO SPAM ON THIS BLOG!
Everywhere else in the world we get advertising, but NOT HERE. I don't want some lazy SOB using my hard work to peddle their shitty wares. So now, this asshole has ruined it for everyone. No anonymous comments and I'll be doing a verification of all comments from non-users now.
God, I hate the internet sometimes. Or maybe, I just hate advertising.
And Steve, French seafood is actually pretty good. They do fish pretty well here, but I haven't tried too many crustaceans yet, I'll let you know. And I'll be uploading the video later tonight. Party on, all.
Right on big Joshy!
Show the Matrix who's boss!
Fuckin' Right! I can just see you smoking a giant cigar with Aviator's on while you tame that internet.
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