Near home goodie

Today was bike to school Day. Something fun I wanted to be apart of. I met up with a few people at south bay galleria and moved on. I wanted to meet at the starting location but I needed to bring something large to school so I slapped by roof rack back on and took my bike to school first before actually meeting everyone. Half way hypocritical no?
Tomorrow is bike to work day for those who don’t know.

One cool thing about not driving to your destination is that you notice things you don’t while driving.
I am gonna hawk all over this. When it’s open I’m there.
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I need to bike more often. I want to find hole in the walls.

Unintentional naming.

Over the weekend I went to Culver City’s Westfield Mall and stumbled upon this interesting eatery. I’m sure it’s just mere coincidence and simply unintended, but in a nutshell CAREFUL on what you name your store of restaurant.

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Big Fat Pita. Pita can be an abbreviation for Pain In The Ass. So the name of the place is coincidently ‘Big fat pain in the ass.’

Again…this is probably merely coincidence…

…unless they intended that for someone like me to mention about it.

Gatten Sushi

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Last night my friends and I went to the new sushi restaurant, Gatten Sushi, that just opened up this week located within a nice walking/riding distance from my house. The place has revolving sushi system that you pretty much pick what plates you want. Pick and eat. The food is delicious and I am very likely to come back.

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A little disappointed that I’ve gone back two other times and they have been closed for the night. Earlier than posted times.

Little Tokyo

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It’s been some time since I’ve been to little tokyo…well on a normal day. I usually go when there’s an event and there’s all sorts of people crowding. This time it was about more relaxed to go around even with my head spinning around everywhere. Only one thing that was killing me about the outing was the karaoke thing that was going on… Plenty of terrible singers singing at the center of little tokyo. Smh… Really.

Well while we (my girlfriend and I) were here we went for dinner at Wakasaya. It was pretty good. The portion was rather small but it was good. I had a Unagi/Hamachi/Seared Salmon combination and she had a special combo of Udon and Salmon.

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Meh…

Computers toast. Kinda making uploading any event photos that need watermarking very difficult…

I have a tower sitting here given by a friend but I can’t do much with it at this time since I havnt had the chance of tinkering with it…

Been a rather rough week…

That debatable 3-D

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I was just reading the school news paper and saw the debatable topic of 3-D. Question goes: Does 3-D enhance the movie going experience?

To me, 3-D will be a continuous ongoing fad. Technology will always 1up the last and makes The experience better but in all reality 3-D will still be a fad. However, even though I feel like it’s a fad I do have to agree that there have been some movies that’s crawled it’s way into this area in 3-D where it’s actually worth it’s moments.
Take “Avatar” for instance. That movie in 3-D was able to captivate the audiences into the world that has been created and the movie was all purpose made into the 3-D technology. That movie I say made the 3-D movie experience much better.
But there are those movies that crosses this fine line that makes 3-D completely unnecessary. Like a very good grip of movies such as “Transformers,” “Harry Potter,” and the rerelease of “Star Wars.” all of them were completely unnecessary. Too much movement too much blandness, too much of what’s unnecessary in a 3-D film.
Something that doesn’t help anyone in any case are the cheap 3-D glasses. Yeah they are a piece of … . And I’m not saying this because I wear glasses and it doesn’t fit. My best movie experience was at the El Capitan theatre where they had a much better quality 3-D glasses. I believe they may have been digital glasses. But boy, with those glasses I did not get any headaches. And the weird blurriness was cut down to the point where it’s not noticeable. People need to look into researching that a tadmore.
In all reality I support both side of this highly debatable argument and I can possible rebuttal a lot of what people say. But there IS one area where I can’t deny anyone for anything; How stupid expensive it is to watch 3-D movies… Look at the price: uh… No thanks I’ll watch in 2-D.

Fn: since I’ve been on an writing spree I opened up a new category called “food for thought.” want to read my thoughts and opinions just click on the category tag.