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Messages - Kashan

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Real Life / Re: Good Tiiiiiimessss
« on: January 18, 2014, 09:02:05 AM »
Yesterday was awesome. Found out I got the research position I'd been wanting and went to an NBA game where the local team's star player scored a career high.

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Real Life / Re: What's Cookin'?
« on: December 15, 2013, 02:34:27 PM »
I wish everyone who says that they can't cook would read this. You have the perfect attitude; in the kitchen, being afraid of messing up usually ends up a self-fulfilling prophecy. Whatever you do in there, act as if you had done it a hundred times before. Mistakes are something you sort out and learn from after the fact, not during.

For me the thing that made me comfortable was reading a book that approached cooking from basic scientific perspectives. Reading that gave me the tools to analyze what I was doing and adapt when inevitably things didn't go perfectly according to plan.

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Real Life / Re: What's Cookin'?
« on: December 15, 2013, 01:10:03 PM »
So my mother bought half of a lamb and it has fallen to me to prepare most of it. I've made a few pretty cool things recently.



Lamb Bourguignon with roast potatoes de province. Took about 3 hours and a ton of work, but so worth it.



Fireplace roasted leg of lamb basted with thyme, garlic, and olive oil. Took about 4 hours, but actually pretty easy to make. Fantastic flavor.

It's of note that I've never really cooked anything serious before. I'm kind of jumping into this with both feet and I feel like a bad ass for making such delicious food from scratch. Though I've also screwed up a couple things, though thankfully nothing of note.

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Real Life / Re: Good Tiiiiiimessss
« on: November 12, 2013, 05:48:41 AM »
I can only hope so.

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Real Life / Re: Good Tiiiiiimessss
« on: November 11, 2013, 02:34:09 PM »
This could also maybe fit under the Your Job thread, but it looks like I may have a research position for next semester. It's pretty rad. I'll be working with uranium and using one of those glove boxes.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: God Save The Queen
« on: October 18, 2013, 01:33:44 AM »
I would say that racism is a defining problem of our culture, but saying it is a "sign of our times" kind of undersells how terrible racism has been in the past.

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High-Context Discourse / Re: Quotes
« on: October 17, 2013, 04:12:04 PM »
Wow, that is a blast from the past.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: Religulous
« on: September 21, 2013, 04:39:41 PM »
My Father was actually a priest and Dominican monk for close to 30 years before leaving the priesthood and marrying my mother. From the stories I've heard there was a lot more room to believe and practice as one personally saw fit in the immediate aftermath of Vatican 2, and that the slow conservative shift following that has pushed many out of the church. My father considered himself a catholic until he died, but he ended up worshiping in another church.

Side story: When I was a kid in the 80's my father used to rage about the church moving around molester priests instead of defrocking them. I grew up thinking this was one of those terrible things that everybody knew about and nobody cared about, and I was really surprised when it became such a big story.

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Media / Re: THE MOST IMPORTANT CARTOON EVER MADE
« on: September 18, 2013, 09:33:06 AM »
I sort of wish I still worked at an adolescent psychiatric facility so that I could see how crazy kids feel about MLP. They loved the shit out of ICP while I was there btw, to the extent that I would almost consider it a reliable warning sign.

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Real Life / Re: Chicago Gathering
« on: September 03, 2013, 11:04:34 AM »
So Classic was a super amazing host when I had to hit him up for a place to stay one night, and everybody should know how great he is.

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Real Life / Re: Chicago Gathering
« on: August 30, 2013, 06:12:24 AM »
Alright I'm about to head out. Dinner plans are Saturday at 7:00 PM at Renga Tei followed by Karaoke at Lincoln Karaoke from 9:00 PM until we decide we're done.

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Real Life / Re: Chicago Gathering
« on: August 29, 2013, 12:20:51 AM »
Alright. I'll call back and change it today.

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Real Life / Re: Chicago Gathering
« on: August 28, 2013, 11:34:33 AM »
Yeah, I think I may just make a reservation for 6 at that Renga Tei place since Meikai seems okay with it and I know Silver and my l5r friends will be into it.

edit: reservation made for 6 people at 8pm. I can call to change it if we decide that's not the best time.

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Real Life / Re: Chicago Gathering
« on: August 28, 2013, 11:13:36 AM »
On transportation, I'm ignorant of how terrible navigating Chicago by car is. Are we better off meeting up somewhere and then carpooling to dinner/the karaoke place, or would we be better of just using public transit all around?

This is also just assuming you have a car I guess.

Also now that I realize that place is for Japanese food and not specifically sushi I'm actually more inclined to go. We don't have a lot of non-sushi Japanese food in OKC.

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Real Life / Re: Chicago Gathering
« on: August 28, 2013, 10:35:20 AM »
Why isn't it super viable? I think everybody in the partly will probably enjoy sushi.

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Real Life / Re: Chicago Gathering
« on: August 28, 2013, 10:06:45 AM »
I was hoping one of the locals would make a suggestion for where to get dinner. Karaoke would be here.

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Real Life / Re: Chicago Gathering
« on: August 27, 2013, 11:36:17 PM »
So I thought I'd bump this again. I'm planning on doing dinner and karaoke this saturday, and anybody in the greater Chicago area who can should come. Drop me a line if you're interested.

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Real Life / Re: Chicago Gathering
« on: August 08, 2013, 05:59:30 AM »
Important update. We'll actually be doing one this year as well!  :whoops:

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Real Life / Chicago Gathering
« on: August 08, 2013, 05:26:49 AM »
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF KASHAN-KON CHICAGO 2014 2013!!!
I'm planning on flying up to Chicago over labor day weekend and I'd really like to meet some of my fellow #finalfighters and brontoforumites who live in and around the Chicago area.

Currently my plan is to fly in on Friday evening and see a musical about basketball (btw somebody should come see that with me), then see the city on Saturday and Sunday. I know Silversong is planning on coming in too, and I was hoping we could get enough people together to do a proper meet up for dinner and maybe rent a karaoke room here on Saturday night. I was also planning on seeing the art institute and the aquarium while I was in town, along with a couple of architectural sites if anybody is interested in hanging out for that.

So everybody sign up, this will be totally rad!

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Real Life / Re: Nerd Moments
« on: December 24, 2012, 06:31:12 PM »
I got a new 18th century american style leather gambling box that fits my custom deck and dice boxes side by side perfectly and I'm nerding out about it so hard. I'm not sure what this says about me, but I feel like the classiest gamer now.







I seriously could not believe how well it fit my deck and dice boxes.





This deck box was done by a guy in the L5R community who is a big woodworking nerd. He usually gives out woodwork prizes at his tournament every year. This is probably my favorite thing that he's done. It's lacquered green for the Mantis clan colors and has the Mantis clan mon burned into the top.
 



This is a tiny velvet lined chest that my friend got for me at a market in Turkey.





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