Bits and Pieces

[firstfrost]

• Last night, a spammer sent a million billion (well, I don't know the exact number, but I got ~1800 myself) messages to a bunch of MIT lists. Many of them went to RT, which flooded it enough that it's thrashing and failing, preventing people from being able to respond to the other many messages complaining about having gotten a million billion spam messages.
• And the heat is off in N42!
  
  
• Craigie on Main has changed their bar and dining room to not use each other's menus. Sniff! No more tasting menu at the bar. I bet the bar has gotten too popular, what with all the recent articles about their Most Amazing Burger Ever; there's always a line for the bar at 5:30 when it opens. The other night, ilhander asked for something "dark and brooding" and got a drink titled "Living to old age and dying happy is a hope, not an inevitability." (For those reading now without reading comments, the change has been reverted. (the best bartenders ever plus all the choices of the best food ever, so yay!))
  
  
• Last night, mjperson was meeting Mirris & others for dinner at Journeyman, when I got a phone call from him.
  "I'm standing where my iPhone tells me the restaurant is, but I can't find it. Help!"
  "Are you in the alley already? Go down the alley, there's a door on your right."
  "I see a door for (some other restaurant)."
  "No, go farther than that. It's an unmarked big door."
  "There's a plain wooden door... ahah!"

  Later, tirinian noted that listening to the conversation on my end, he couldn't tell whether it was about real life or a video game someone was lost in.

Comments

[mjperson.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it. It was tasty, but you only get to choose between the two prix fixe menus, so you're pretty much at the mercy of chance as far as what you will be served.

I found the portions a tad small, but I often do with prix fixe menus. If I want more in the future, I'd up to the more courses option.

They seemed to be full on a Sunday night, so it's pretty popular though there's a "just started" surge that I expect will drop off unless they hustle a bit to polish up.

[arcanology.livejournal.com]

Do you have to take all one menu or the other? When I look at their posted menus there's often a course where I'd like to punt to the vegetable...

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

They definitely allowed punting to the vegetable version the time I was there.

[mjperson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it seemed like the stated policy was no substitutions, but my table certainly substituted a couple of things.