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On our office blog (http://www.iambrilliantat.com) we’ve started posting restaurant reviews here’s mine for this week:

Today the tech team visited Abeno Okonomi-Yaki Resturant on Museum Street, Holborn. This place in one word “awesome”, the service is second to none, even after not having space to accommodate seven hungry geeks we were seated to peruse the menu, then space was made for us as soon as possible.

The food is always good, the best thing about Abeno is it’s a classic Japanese restaurant serving a varied selection of dishes, highlights include: Sushi Bento, Katsu Curries, Yaki-Sobi, Miso and Okonomiyaki all cooked by hand in front of you on a hot plate that is at the center of every table. Scrumptious food is prepared and served in almost military Japanese precision by smiley girls bopping along to pleasingly melodic J-Pop, the music of choice in Abeno. All this culmenates in a pleasing and authentic Japanese experience. Here’s the pictures.

Tech Descends on Abeno

Stu and Ozay Peruse Menu

Okonomiyaki being prepared

Another Okonomiyaki Being Prepared

My excellent squid Om-Soba

Tom's Chicken Curry with Egg, oddly

We rate Abeno:

This has subsequently lead us branching out into a new enterprise (http://www.whentechlunches.com)!

Last night I was “forced” to watch Paris Hilton’s British Best Friend or “BBF” as she stupidly blurts out every 2-3 seconds. The new ITV2 (a bastion of high-brow entertainment) show about oddly enough Paris trying to find a nice ordinary and honest friend, because apparently all her friends are either prostitutes (her words) or vampires sucking on her 5-minutes of “fame”. So in some kind of twisted bastardation of logical thinking, she decides to accost a complete stranger in a vote-off-everyweek reality show.

I must admit, the show is quiet entertaining, in the same way traffic jams happen when there’s an accident because we all slow down to gawp at the carnage. The show’s contestants are a motely bunch hailing from all sections of society, apparently. It seems what Paris is really after is someone who is isn’t as pretty or intelligent as she is. Which as she looks like an Alien and has the IQ of a spoon, the contestants are possible the weirdest and densest collection of tools to ever be brought together.

Highlights include (I had to look at the website):

Laura an Account Manager from Essex who looks like someones perma fixed her expression to her face. She has the genius line of trying invite Paris to Alton Towers.

Chrissie a Part-Time Model ( I’m not kidding ) who has possible the weirdest accent I’ve ever heard, apparently she’s posh, but it sounds like someones jammed a rat down her windpipe, the ugliest of the bunch she looks like she was fashioned by a 3 year old using a cereal box and some plasticine. Even then I doubt there’s a mother in the land that would hang this mug on their fridge.

Finally, Layla a Telesales Manager from Reading, she is the best contestant because no matter which angle she’s filmed from she looks like a cross dressing elephant man without his bag on.

Anyway, the looks and IQs aren’t the point of the show, the point is to humiliate these people, and then turn them against each other in a 5-minute long beg-off at the end where one “BBF” is ostracised because Paris and her new found clan of mini-bitches don’t like the cut of their jib.

Check out Paris Hilton’s British Best Friend on ITV2 Thursday 9PM if you want to see the how bad Television has become. Be warned though, you will feel slightly dumber having watched it. Now back to 24 hopefully Jack Bauer killing Terrorists with his shoes will wash way the horrid nightmare BBFs.

Lucy decided it would be “funny” to sign me up to GMTV’s get motivated campaign, the marketing device behind GMTVs apparent mission to get the nation fit. It basically entails everyone’s favorite “back from the past” Lycra wearing thrust-job Mr Motivator, enslaving a nation of chubby daily mail readers into jiggling there fat bits on national television every morning.

If you haven’t yet experienced the re-emergence of nightmares from our childhood, anorexia promoter Loraine Kelly introduces the horror:

Also to my horror not only do I recieve weekly top tips from the man himself because I’ve “commited myself to getting motivated” I recieved an email this morning with some rather dubious advertising:

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Is it “just me” or is that rather counter productive.

Here’s our viNe widget for our trip to egypt enjoy.

edit - Moved to sidebar –>

I stumbled upon the vib ribbon home page (which is still up) and got all nostalgic listening to the music from the game. Just thought I’d share these “videos” I found on youtube that contain the original music from the game.

Part 1

Part 2

Reminds me of the heady days of late nights at University… When we should have been doing our work, we stayed up late playing vib ribbon to aphex twin… I’ll have to see if I can get a copy, I did read on the rumor mill that there’s a possibility of a PSN version coming soon to PS3, fingers crossed!

“What are on earth is that you’re doing?” asks a work colleague whilst standing over my desk

“It’s very important work” I say.

“No really Lucy, what is it that you’re doing?” asks another colleague

“Very important work!, very important” I say, starting to become annoyed at these distractions.”Well ok fine, if you must know, it’s papercraft - although, I wish we had a colour printer!”

At some point today my boss had cottoned on to the fact that perhaps I’m not being as productive as I might be… “Lucy, what are you really doing, ”

“very important work!”

“Yes, I am aware of this,” picking up my Kirby ” I want one!”

Kirby by Lucy, Cube Mario by Selman

A while back I posted our attempts at papercraft with a picture of my lame XBOX360 and Lucy’s excellent DS. The PaperModels website has since moved to FXConsole (http://fxconsole.blogspot.com).

Now I love paper models, and I also love Zelda, today I found a new site titled PaperKraft (http://paperkraft.blogspot.com) which have some awsome paper models to make. I’ll be printing these out and posting my Lucy’s results.

Yes, tis true, it seems that people have completely run out of things to be scared of as there are no longer enough terrorists, murderers, evil mind-warping computer games or crap car insurance adverts to be scared of and so they have decided to be scared of, erm, themselves. Well not actually themselves; the far less sinister phonomenon known as Shadow People. Shadow people are apparently comparative to ghosts and other such paranormal hokey pokeyness in the sense that they are scary, hang around in dark buildings with pillars, walls and other such light-obstructing paraphenalia with a murderous intent. Wikipedia states that:

“Several scientific hypotheses have been proposed to explain sightings of shadow people, including optical illusions or hallucinations brought on by the physiological/psychological circumstances of the witnesses, drug use, and the interaction of external agents on the human body.”

Or they could be just shadows, seriously.

My scientific interpretation of it all, above.

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