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In my mail this week I recieved a note from Yelp about some of the more interesting eateries in Seattle. I’ve found this service to be a good way to culture myself, so that I might properly entertain each of you who ascends into this foul weather to visit me. This sort of review I believe will only encourage you all to come and see the gems that Seattle has to offer (though perhaps not for another month or three–it’s still cold).

From the Yelp lsiting for Cafe Mecca, Tyler H. says:

“You know you’ve arrived in the world of slash-and-burn alcoholism when you find yourself sitting in the back booth of the Mecca drinking mimosas and eating hash browns at 9 o’clock on a Sunday morning without ever having quite made it home from the bars the night before.

As someone who managed to pull off this feat a couple times back in the day: I both highly recommend the experience. And also recommend you avoid it at all costs.

That said, as others have mentioned, this place is one of Seattle’s few definitive greasy spoon diners. Sometimes the bar section gets obnoxiously packed, but even on the weekends you can usually saddle up the the bar of the diner side with a friend and throw back a few cheap beers.”

Wow! Don’t you just want to fly up here this weekend if for no other reason than to experience, “slash-and-burn alcoholism?!”

They’ve certainly outdone themselves this time. The new Adobe CS3 apps are live, and they would be available for preorder from Adobe, if their online store weren’t temporarily down (probably from overwhelming traffic). To give you some idea of where the price ceiling is, Amazon is listing the CS3 Master Collection for US$ 2473.99.

Sure the software revisions will be exciting and useful, but I just can’t get over how gorgeous the box art is. If Adobe sold each application with a large-format poster, I’d probably pay the extra and buy all of the pieces individually.

I have two ‘tokens’ to use to invite people to the beta of Joost (formerly The Venice Project), and they expire on the 22nd. Leave a comment if you like and I’ll hook you up.

Update 21MAR07: I’m currently all out of invitations, and so I’m going to close out this little queue before it gets too long. When I get more I’ll throw up a new post. Thank you all for your interest :)

Someone in the office today showed me a card trick, and I managed to break it on my first attempt! Wasn’t that a great story? I only told it though to tell you this one.

In that same conversation, I made a case a few of you have probably heard if you spend any time around me: Slapping people in the face is ready for a renaissance (not that you’ll believe me, but I spelled that right on my first attempt–this day is going really well). There are plenty of times in a given week when I feel the urge to lightly but firmly connect my open hand with the cheek of whoever is talking at me. A slap is probably the most shocking and effective way to point out to someone that they need to come to their senses and, most likely, shut the fuck up.

Keep in mind the power that comes with slapping someone as you wade into these waters, as it is a skill that can be quite easily abused. The slap can only be leveraged against someone for whom you have displayed a great deal of respect and care. Slapping an acquaintance, or worse yet a total stranger, is like booking an appearance on Monzel and Wyatt’s favorite show.

How the fuck am I supposed to know when blue cheese has gone bad?!