Modern Toilet

So Vanesa and I ate at a restaurant called Modern Toilet today. Yes, that’s the actual name. And no, it’s not some horrendous English translation of the Chinese name. Here’s the link to their website.

I had the Pork Chops Cordon Bleu and Vanesa had the Smokin’ Chicken. The meals came served on a plate that was resting in the bowl of a little plastic commode. It was served with rice, soup, iced tea, and dessert. The dessert was chocolate/vanilla swirl soft-serve ice cream served in a little plastic replica of the “squatter” type toilets that are so common here in Taiwan.

The seats you sit on are all real porcelain toilets minus the tank. The bigger tables were full-sized bathtubs sitting under a glass table. Our small table was a basin under glass.

The food wasn’t at all shitty (haha!) and was actually very good. Portions were very good sized and we were both full after the meal. It was also pretty reasonably priced. The total meal ran NT$380, which is about US$13.

The most ironic thing in the restaurant was the bathroom. It was boring and understated and get this, it only had a squatter style toilet. What’s up with that?

At any rate, I think we’ll probably end up eating there a couple of more times before we leave at the end of next month. We didn’t have a camera but here’s a weblog that has some photos of one of the locations in Taipei.

Ya know…

This post was stupid and mostly pointless. It was a rotten weekend and I’d just as soon forget it. Sorry for wasting your time.

Eric Byrnes Is Headed For the Golf Course

Rockies are NL Champs after defeating the punchless Diamondbacks by a count of 6-4 in Game 4 of the NLCS. And for those of you who don’t know, that’s Eric Byrnes lying flat on his face behind Todd Helton after making the final out of the series. Karma is a bitch, ain’t it Eric?

Rockies Take Commanding 3-0 Lead

The Rockies have taken a huge 3-0 lead over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League Championship Series. And if that wasn’t good enough, all four runs the Rockies scored came via homeruns that sailed directly over the head of leftfielder Eric Byrnes, who a day earlier, just couldn’t keep his big mouth shut.

Here’s a fact: In MLB history, 29 teams have lost the first three games of a seven-game series. 23 of those teams went on to get swept by losing Game 4 and just one of those teams has come back to take the series by winning the following four games.

So yeah, this series isn’t over yet. But the 2007 Diamondbacks are certainly not the 2004 Red Sox.

Oh, and for the record, Byrnes turned in a spectacular 0-4 performance in Game 3, grounding into a double-play and weakly popping out two times. Yeah, you sure showed ‘em, Eric.

Christmas Gift Idea

If you’re looking for gift ideas for yours truly this holiday season, here’s something I’d really like to have:

Oh, and by the way, the Rockies beat the Phillies in Game One of the NLDS by a count of 4-2. Jeff Francis and the Rockies bullpen made Rollins, Utley, and Howard look foolish by hanging them with an 0-11 and eight strikeouts. The Rockies have effectively taken home field advantage away from the Phillies and ensured that there will be at least two games played at Coors in this series. Hopefully it won’t come to that, however.

Rockies win; Mets choke

It’s a great day to be a baseball fan.

Bonehead

I just spent the entire day completely oblivious to the fact that I had my shirt on inside out. Luckily, no one else noticed either. I’m a clown.

To Tell You the Truth…

The Braves inability to be a consistent team is completely maddening and the #1 reason why they’re pretty much out of it this point. Yeah, I know 4 1/2 games back with a little less than a month to play isn’t insurmountable but there ain’t no way they’re going to leapfrog four teams to win the wild card. To do so, they’d have to put together some kind of winning streak longer than three games. This team, however, has shown on numerous occasions that they don’t know how to do that.

At this point, I’d rather watch the Rockies than the Braves. At least the Rockies seem to be able to get up for an important game or series. Taking 2 of 3 off the Padres this weekend was huge. Let’s hope they can keep that going against the Phillies and Marlins this week.

Another Quake

There was a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan last night at 1:51am. It was followed by a 5.7 magnitude aftershock four minutes later. I slept through it but I vaguely remember my bed on the third floor of my house shaking a bit last night. Wish I had been fully awake for it. This is the third quake I’ve felt in the 2+ years I’ve been in Taiwan.

New Site

Today I spent some time moving my weblog over from my personal web space to WordPress.com. It’ll probably get updated about as much as the other site did but what the heck. At the very least it will save me $50/year.

At any rate, welcome to the new site. It has a new look but you can be assured it’ll still have the same boring content. Enjoy.