Did finally get a reservation at Alo few weeks ago, really happy that I got to try the restaurant out! My favourites are (and Jae & Rashik largely agrees): the mackerel amuse bouche, chanterelle, madai, and the strawberries with champagne cream palette cleanser. There is nothing to complain about, but for the price point I also wouldn't go again unless its for a big special occasion where the quiet environment is necessary.
Very belated post of mom's birthday dinner. Great interior, the hot dishes were amazing, cold dishes is a mix of hit and miss:
Recent eats:
Lakeland is still hands down my favourite location, now I have a proper set of gposing there!
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Haven't ride in a while, but a long flight means prime reading opportunity. Forgot which book led me to discovering this book, but it is a humorous and light-hearted read on ethics. Some new concepts that I like are:
Technically, in the original Greek, Aristotle actually uses the nebulous word "eudaimonia," which sometimes gets translated as "happiness" and sometimes as "flourishing.
In her masterwork, Ordinary Vices, she makes a compelling argument that cruelty not pride or envy or wrath or any of the other classic "deadly sins" is actually the worst human vice, and should be placed atop the list of things to avoid. "To put cruelty first," she writes: is to disregard the idea of sin as it is understood by revealed religion. Sins are transgressions of a divine rule and offenses against God. However, cruelty -the willful inflicting of physical pain on a weaker being in order to cause anguish and fear-is a wrong done entirely to another creature.
Williams uses the word integrity to attack the utilitarians less in the sense of "honesty and moral uprightness" than "wholeness," Or "undividedness." He says that their worldview causes a crack in the basic foundation of an individual's being the sense that "each of us is specially responsible for what he does, rather than for what other people do." Ten people might die because Sheriff Pete thinks mass murder is a good way to maintain law and order-but that's on Pete. If Jim kills a guy, that's on Jim, even if he does it for the sake of some kind of "greater good." Jim's integrity has to matter, at some level his sense of being a holistic entity who's not required to compromise himself by acting in a way that divides him into parts, some of which he won't recognize as his own. Jim has to think it's permissible for him-not just for "someone" -to shoot an innocent person if it saves nine others.
One of the very first concepts I wanted to realize with modding is a very unhinged warrior:
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Some quick stops in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Santa Monica before suffering the traffic to get to LAX. I swear it was quicker to walk from terminal B to 6.
Also someone tell me what the purple flowering tree is, I need this irl lakeland tree!
Part 3: where animals were spotted! Including a herd of harbor seals that are not pictured,
No sea lions were seen (other than real far away in Monterey) but more plants! Also where I have 3 photos each of the 3 coves around this trail just from slightly different angles.
