Niniane's Blog

S: "In the midwest, we had basements in case of tornados." Me: "Here we worry about earthquakes.  At least with a tornado,...

I've only purchased one car in my life, 16 years ago.  I've been driving it ever since.   Nowadays people like to make comm...

I hate shopping using my corporeal body.  I'm very happy to shop online, and get a little thrill of anticipation once I've placed t...

A few months ago, I went to eat at NOMA with a few friends / former-colleagues from Minted.  NOMA was previously ranked the #1 restaurant i...

Christmas photos! Lavep hand-letterpressed this Christmas card!  It took him two evenings.  The text is a reference to how I like to w...

Earlier this month: Aff: "I'm going to get you a Playstation 4 and a bunch of games for Christmas.  What genre do you like?...

Last week (before anyone saw the new movie, so there are no spoilers): Me: "I have an issue with all the Star Wars movies.  They al...

My brother and I went on a cruise to the Galapagos! There were 17 guests onboard our cruise.  Christian was the bartender and waiter. ...

I watched this CG video of Bruce Lee again.  While I still love love love it, I see now how there's always a little trick that distrac...

My brother has been training all year to run a Tough Mudder.  It is a 10-mile race with 20+ obstacles like crawling through mud and over 10...

I've been sick for a month.  I came down with a cold last month, which gradually receded but left me with a cough.  Then I did the Toug...

I just watched "Day of the Doctor" on netflix, and it was amazing! What a magical world we live in, that we can watch such ...

Yesterday there was a mosquito biting me as I slept! I woke up at 4am with seven itchy bites. I stayed awake, determined to catch and kil...

Chatting with Azer.  He just had lunch with "Bob", a friend who is an executive at Google. Azer: "Bob told me that people ...

Yuichi told my brother and me to watch a reality show about Koreans clubbing in LA. It's entertaining, but every episode takes place ...

Today I got picked up by this awesome lyft car!  It's blue and square, covered in Dalek and TARDIS decals, and of course note the lice...

I often hear people say to each other, "Don't work too hard.  No one says on their deathbed that they wish they had worked harder....

I've been using Blue Apron to cook.  They send me the ingredients, and then I chop, saute, bake. Tonight I had 5 people over.  I made...

My brother took me to see "San Andreas" in the only 4D movie theatre in the country! 4D has fog, seats rotating and shaking,...

Due to an "incident", my car now makes a grinding noise whenever I turn right.  Poor beloved car! So it seems like I should pro...