So here's something interesting.

In the midst of one of my usual can't-be-cold-turkey-for-a-day fits, I made coffee. A mix of Timothy's noisette vanilla and Second Cup's chocolate truffle. Added some evaporated milk (Carnation's), since we're officially out of milk and soy milk apparently was NOT meant to be a coffee cream (nobody likes curdles).

What was cool is that i lifted my spoon up and realized you don't get the regular doppler effect that you usually see with water (well, you kind of do but not all the time). the droplet didn't just sink into the coffee and ripple out. Instead the droplet actually stays in its droplet shape (i.e. a little spher-ish drop) on the surface and moves along the surface of the coffee to the edge of the cup, bounces back, and eventually just disappears (probably submerges). cool thing is that if you start spooning and dropping a lot more drops of coffee, they all do that..you get a physics lesson in transfer of kinetic energy as they bounce around and off each other.

here's an amateur video of it: Atomic coffee

I would try to get better footage but my brother didn't want to play cameraman all night and I really wanted to chug the coffee :)

Weird. I thought it was cool though. Why does it do that?

Great night last night :)

Met up with people I hadn't seen in ages! First, dinner with Ori at Ichiban where we both proved to ourselves we hadn't aged at all by playing with our food for about an hour. She made a pretty 1/8 of an apple with rice, ginger, wasabi, and a pickled veggie. I proceeded to make mush wrapped in ginger and lemon. Then we tried catapulting food, which didn't really succeed but I guess with two engineers at the table, a trial run was bound to happen :)

Next, headed downtown to hang out with Mark and his people (some of which were also my people) :) Mark's headed out west so this was our last shingding with him until we all go out to visit. Hence, a night on the town was called for ;-) We all hung out at Ciao Edie, fun & retro and was a little empty for a late Friday night but that worked out well for us since we had quite a few people to squish in :) Was great to kick back and catch up with people :)

Anny - always prepared - had a camera on hand so you'll have to see her imagestation for pictures :-)

All in all, I'm going to miss all those leaving :( Hopefully, they'll all come back soon :)