Birthday?
 

UT, doesn't this version of the Cellar turn 1 soon? Like Sunday or so? But the actual b-day of the Cellar is 9/24, correct?

Yer keepin' track more than me, mister! Yes, 1/13 is the first day of this incarnation... good eye man.

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday cellar, i'll have been here a year pretty soon myself.....fawk, what a waste of time ;)

Here's a rudimentary look at the statistic "number of posts per week" for the recent history of the system. It's gone from roughly 10 posts per day to 80 posts per day...

76 - Week 03 (January 2001)
112 - Week 04 (January 2001)
90 - Week 05 (February 2001)
58 - Week 06 (February 2001)
62 - Week 07 (February 2001)
69 - Week 08 (February 2001)
66 - Week 09 (March 2001)
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53 - Week 16 (April 2001)
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118 - Week 21 (May 2001)
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58 - Week 23 (June 2001)
97 - Week 24 (June 2001)
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107 - Week 28 (July 2001)
135 - Week 29 (July 2001)
129 - Week 30 (July 2001)
97 - Week 31 (August 2001)
117 - Week 32 (August 2001)
139 - Week 33 (August 2001)
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121 - Week 35 (September 2001)
107 - Week 36 (September 2001)
212 - Week 37 (September 2001)
202 - Week 38 (September 2001)
183 - Week 39 (September 2001)
296 - Week 40 (October 2001)
186 - Week 41 (October 2001)
231 - Week 42 (October 2001)
218 - Week 43 (October 2001)
185 - Week 44 (November 2001)
208 - Week 45 (November 2001)
218 - Week 46 (November 2001)
199 - Week 47 (November 2001)
299 - Week 48 (December 2001)
278 - Week 49 (December 2001)
358 - Week 50 (December 2001)
473 - Week 51 (December 2001)
219 - Week 52 (December 2001)
122 - Week 53 (December 2001)
550 - Week 00 (January 2002)
504 - Week 01 (January 2002)

Happy Birthday to Mk V...whoohoo! :)

Yay for the Cellar. :) I'd sing "happy birthday" but no one is here to hear me. Oh well. :) At least I had Pad Gai Friday night. :)

The guy has a serious pad gai addiction. It's good...I had it. But it's not even on the dinner menu...I bet he would have risen up if we couldn't have ordered it. :)

I woulda been like "look, I have this every time I come here. There's never been a problem before. Please ask the cooks to make us some Pad Gai." I really don't think there's any chance of them giving me any problems. 'Course, I have no idea why it's not on the dinner menu. But as long as I can eat it, I don't really care. :)

You are denying your addiction. ;)

No way. It's not actually an addiction - it is a very strong appreciation for some food I would deem to be "great". Not just good - great. My opinion, anyway. I can stop eating it at any time :)

Suuuuuure...I challenge you to eat something other than pad gai when you go there again next week. :)

I wanted to send a Birthday Card to Cellar today, but it's difficult to customize it and get it into a link here. Anyway, this Flash greeting card expresses my best wishes for all the community here.

*Nod to Jaguar* You'll see and hear what I mean. Turn up your sound for this!

No. And I'll tell you why -

That's kind of like saying "Look, here's a handful of $100 bills that you can have, or here's a bran muffin. You make the choice."

Well, I'm taking the $100 bills, thank you very much. Why? 'Cause I can buy something better than a bran muffin with them.

Now, pad gai happens to be one of my very favorite foods. Why would I pass an opportunity to have pad gai? :)

Besides, it <b>is</b> tradition. Giles, Matt and I go to Busara, and we all order Pad Gai, with 1 side of Chicken Satay. I can't break that tradition. :)

Some day I probably will get something other than pad gai, just to try it. But not on Monday, which is Giles and Matt's last day at work until this summer (when they come on full time - word!). Monday needs to be a pad gai day. :)

Off topic - have I mentioned how good the fonts look on OS X? As I'm typing this, I can't help but think how far ahead of Linux and Windows OS X is as far as making everything on screen look phenomenal. It's embarassing. But I love writing in OS X - it just looks SO GOOD. :)

*laughz
=p
(that was to nic)

Because

a) You could be missing out on some other delicious dishes.

b) You could burn yourself out on pad gai.

Hey, I'm just looking out for you. ;)

Getting burnt-out on pad gai would be the find-food equivalent of getting "really fucking tired of having good sex". :)

excuse me
 

But what is "pad gai"

Obviously, some kind of asian food dish, but other than that?

Brian

Pad gai, as I have it, consists of the following, from bottom to top:

-Lettuce
-Rice noodles
-Little bits of fried egg
-Chicken
-Carrot noodles

Now, I don't care so much for the carrot noodles or the lettuce, but the chicken is great and the rice noodles are <b>amazing</b>. The egg is also a nice touch. It's seasoned very well, and leaves me feeling very satisfied. It's exceptionally hard to describe it, but it is <b>excellent</b>. It's Thai - any respectable Thai restaurant will have it. Busara's is exceptionally good.

It also has little chopped onions...celery...something green other than the lettuce.

Yeah, it IS pretty damn good. I just wish I could remember what I ordered as an appetizer.

I thought there was a motherfuckin' PAD GAI! thread.

Nic, I know you haven't been here long, but I am 99.999% certain that you are aware of how quickly posts careen out of control. :)

oh, i know. i just thought, maybe, dham thought he was on the other thread, which he started for this discussion.

and i thought it humorous that the original thread was called motherfuckin' pad gai! which is about the way i feel about it, now.

i agree that the conversational thread thing is a good thing for community.

but if every thread turns into some kinda rant for anyone's passion for one particular Thai dish ...

it's hard to stay involved in the Cellar if going back to any thread for follow-up on any subject, nets one a dialogue which could be really valuable on the thread with that topical heading.

isn't that the point?

well, i think you know what i mean. :)

You had moo ping as an appetizer. I had chicken satay. Jenni had golden triangles as an appetizer and Panang Tofu as a meal. You and I, of course, had pad gai.

P.S. - happy birthday cellar!

Is that what it was? Yeah...that was delicious. Although, the wooden skewers were a bit of a pain.

padgai.com ... hmmm ...
 

If the stuff is sooooo good, this idea has to be worth a fortune to the next Dave Thomas.

Why don't you Pad Gai wankers do something creative with all that computer hardware,
Internet savvy, and pent up passion for pad gai ... open a damn online pad gai restaurant
instead of just jerkin' off about it here and wastin' space? ;)


CONGRATULATIONS! Pad Gai Guy

padgai.com is available $35.00/year
padgai.net is available $30.00/year
padgai.biz is available $35.00/year
padgai.info is available $35.00/year
padgai.tv is available $50.00/year
padgai.org is available $25.00/year
padgai.ws is available $35.00/year
padgai.cc is available $35.00/year
padgai.bz is available $35.00/year

Re: padgai.com ... hmmm ...
 

I challenge dham to create a site dedicated to it. :)

calm down nic, where'd the hand of kindness go? ;)

I'm calm ... i just thought the pad gai guys must be bored with all the terrorism, politics, and cigarette smoke blowin' around here, and were hoping for a fight to break out.

Oh yeah, Hapyp Grithday! :)

Anyway, I think Sycamore has the right idea, and that post about the domain names was a bit of a challenge by me too, not just to dhamsaic (Sycamore should help.)

I'll be happy to hear all about the pad gai,when they've got a site up at padgai.com that we can all drive traffic to. :)

In the meantime, when they feel the urge to rant about pad gai, maybe they could work it off on the site development.

I bet it will be fantastic.

OMG, I'm sounding like a Management Consultant. How does it know?

Don't look at me...dham is the one with the addiction. I merely had one serving of it on Friday. :)