.the gpb kids.

On being ovo-lacto-pescatarian just because he’s bored

Posted by Jules - August 25, 2008 at 11:08:35 pm

So mike has too much time on his hands, and wants to see if he can be a “vegetarian”. Who eats eggs. And dairy. And all seafood (do duck legs count as seafood? They do spend some time in the water, after all… just kidding. Really). Behehhe… And recently, he said that this challenge was just too easy. I mean, it’s soooo easy being a vegetarian. Who also eats eggs. And dairy. And seafood. So I think maybe he should try being an actual vegetarian, and see how hard that is ~_^ Yeah? Yeah?

Quick Post

Posted by Jules - August 25, 2008 at 11:08:37 pm

Today’s Stream of Consciousness: School is going to start in 2 days. Back to classes. Yay. I’m getting a bit stressed out thinking about grant applications, and qualifying exams. Argghhhh… time to start studying this weekend. We just had our first departmental graduate student meeting for the year. Apparently I am now a graduate assembly delegate alternate. If it’s interesting, I may go to all the meetings, regardless of whether or not the other PMB delegate is there. I’ve never been a part of student government. Last year they successfully lobbied for a vision plan to be part of SHIP, which is huge. Previously, we only had dental and health. I’m curious as to what they’ll focus on this year.

Today’s movie: Be Kind Rewind (mike watched, I only half paid attention. But it seems like an entertaining movie. I am just easily distracted today)

Today’s bedtime reading: The God of Small Things (I was vacillating between this book and The God Delusion in the bookstore. Not that they are in any way related in either subject matter or.. anything else, for the matter. Well, other than ‘God’ in the title)

Being a Pescetarian: Day 4

Posted by Mike - August 21, 2008 at 11:08:36 pm

Okay, so Lindsay pointed out that I’m really a pescetarian because I eat seafood. I wonder if there are any pescetarians out there who believe killing land animals is worse than killing water animals. Hmmm… Okay, on to today’s meals.

Breakfast
“Everything” bagel with cream cheese. Toasted, of course.

Lunch
A “veggie deluxe” Mediterranean wrap of some kind. Had eggplant and spinach in it and it was spicy. My brother ordered the lamb and beef one but ended up with some kind of mysterious spongy meat that could not be identified.

Dinner
When Jules is away, Mike is lazy. So I had another bagel with cream cheese while I watched Kingdom of Heaven. I also ate ~5 more raisin oatmeal cookies with milk. So good.

Being a Vegetarian: Day 3

Posted by Mike - August 21, 2008 at 08:08:05 am

Posting a little late this time. Yesterday was the first time I had to pick meat out of my meal. We went to Westfield for lunch and I went straight to Coriandor, a Thai food place. I was looking for red pumpkin curry but was only greeted with red, yellow and green chicken curry. Big disappointment. Also, what is with food joints not stringing snap peas??

Had sushi for dinner with Jules, Zach and pops. Not much to say there. Fishes are yummy.

Being a Vegetarian: Day 2

Posted by Mike - August 19, 2008 at 09:08:48 pm

Breakfast
Plain, toasted bagel with cream cheese.

Lunch
Cheap Chinese food. Veggie fried rice, veggie chow mein, veggie chow fun, mushroom tofu, battered/fried shrimp, and two pieces of shrimp dim sum. Sounds like a lot doesn’t it? It was really just a bit of each. The place was a buffet, by-the-pound.

Dinner
Some noodles and pesto with one mushroom, one green onion and one clove of garlic thrown in for good measure. Also ate some cantaloupe and oatmeal raisin cookies/milk.

I’m pretty sure my poor vegetarian diet negates any health benefits I would normally get from being a vegetarian. Also, I still eat seafood. Yeah… that’s right.

And Jules has already failed. Today she ate a grilled ham and cheese sandwich. I win!

Being a Vegetarian: Day 1

Posted by Mike - August 18, 2008 at 07:08:58 pm

For no particular reason I decided to be a vegetarian for a couple weeks. I’m not doing it for any ethical or moral reasons. I’m not trying to save the world. I’m not trying to save money. I’m not trying to be healthier. I just wanted to try it out and see if it’s difficult, or if I’ll have cravings or anything. So here goes nothing.

Lunch
Had a vegetarian kebab from the Mediterranean place in the Galleria. It consisted of rice, green and red peppers, and a wedge of onion. It also had a small sauce-sized container of veggies in some kind of vinegar dressing stuff. That wasn’t bad, but the peppers were. And you can’t really eat onions by themselves. So essentially I just ate rice for lunch.

Dinner
Boiled some instant noodles with msg-laced flavoring. Added some Chinese greens, green onions, mushrooms and eggs. (Are eggs vegetarian friendly?) Jules sliced some pears and cheese, threw in a couple of skinny, seed covered crackers and finished with some delicious leftover salad from movie night.

Snacks
Had a hot chocolate and a egg, sausage, and cheese muffin thing from Starbucks in the morning. Okay yes I realize it has sausage in it. It wasn’t until right before lunch that I decided to go meatless. In the afternoon I had some ice cream which I’m sure negated all of the benefits of being vegetarian for most of the day.

On a side note, Jules likes her pears crispy, and I like them riper, softer. I must hide them before she eats them all at a pre-mike stage.

Cloning an array in JavaScript

Posted by Mike - August 15, 2008 at 02:08:12 pm

This frustrated me for like an hour today. The problem is that in JavaScript, arrays are treated like objects and are referenced when you really want to clone them. See embed.

The intern

Posted by Mike - August 14, 2008 at 06:08:07 pm

My brother Zach has joined the ranks at work as an unpaid intern. He’s not really doing anything right now but perhaps soon his full potential will be revealed!!!!

Note: not a picture of zach at work.

Huckleberry Preserve

Posted by Mike - August 10, 2008 at 08:08:21 pm

Jules and I went on a hike up in the hills yesterday. I brought my video camera and shot random things during the trip. Here they are:

Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve from Mike Horn on Vimeo.

Harry Potter

Posted by Jules - August 10, 2008 at 12:08:15 am

So I’m a little late to the bandwagon. I’d more or less kept up with the harry potter series during these past few years. But I only recently (as in two weeks ago) got around to reading the final and seventh book. It had been so long that I actually went back to the volume 1-6 again to refresh my memory. I got all of them in hardback for 7$ apiece courtesy of half price books. Yay. I made pretty quick work of them during my bus commutes to and from school these past two weeks. Which kind of tells you how much time I spend waiting around for buses. Okay, okay, I read them at home too. But I think the majority of my reading was done en route. I enjoyed the ending, and thought it was pretty fitting. And whiIe I can think of a number of books that I value more, they are still entertaining, fun reads. Off the top of my head, three books that I can think of that I have read most often (as in +4 times) is ‘Ender’s Game’, by Orson Scott Card; ‘Me Talk Pretty One Day’, by David Sedaris; and ‘Feeding A Yen’, by Calvin Trillin. Two of them are composed of short personal essays (absolutely hilarious, I tell you), and one is in the good old science fiction category. Yay books.

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