Now that I’ve seen the movie all the way through, I find that I have some things I need to say about it. As I write this, I haven’t decided if I’m going to spoil anything, so I’ll put it all below the fold here so you have to click to get to it.

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Today, one of my coworkers in the tech room brought up the subject of Thai food for lunch again by finding a place near us on google map. So now I can with authority say that there is a good Thai place near me that fellow coconut-curry-lovers can go to when they come to visit me. But if you don’t know me, and you’re just in town, it’s “Thai Rama” off of Camelback and 7th Ave.

Oh, but there was a story behind the first sentence which I guess I could elaborate on if you’re bored and you’re still reading this. In our group, we go out to eat for lunch at a different place every day and hit pretty most of the major food categories—chinese, mexican, burger, pizza, etc. Yes, I know they are not all ethnicities, but bear with me. About a week and a half after I started working at Rainbow, I threw out the general question, “are there any Thai places around here?”, which caused Jon B., my coworker, to say something to the effect of “that’s what I’ve been asking for about two months now.” So, it sort of started a quest of sorts, to find a good Thai place, and there’s a big rigmarole about that which I won’t pontificate about, but we ended up finding a place on our own. But before leaving for lunch today, Karthik, another coworker who is in our room now since we recently moved to a different side of the building, said that it was pretty good there. In retrospect, he might have been a good one to ask about finding a restaurant back during the quest for Thai, but he was in a different room then and we didn’t see him that regularly, except during programmer meetings. Ah well.

I took a little trip to Sedona this weekend, and took a lot of pictures. Sedona was pretty cool—lots of interesting scenery and stuff. We also went down to Slide Rock State Park and wandered around a bit. On a side note, if you ever go down there, Vista Cantina is a pretty decent Mexican restaurant.

Anyway, I put a link to the album in the “pages” area.

Bandon’s blog inspired me to take another quiz. So here’s the result:

Modern, Cool Nerd

60 % Nerd, 56% Geek, 21% Dork

For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.

Nerds didn’t use to be cool, but in the 90’s that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn’t quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and “geek is chic.” The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

	You scored higher than 58% on nerdiness
	You scored higher than 81% on geekosity
	You scored higher than 26% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

So, I have a camera now, and I can finally start putting decent pictures up here. Well, I suppose that depends on the quality of the composition now. Anyway, I thought maybe I’d make a little scrapbook type album to put random junk into, and on that note, I took a couple pictures of the living room as it sits now. That’s pretty much all that’s in there as I write this, so the random image here will display that until I put more stuff in there. Whee.
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