[TriLUG] Lunch Friday? - Another Durham person

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 2/21/06, Kevin Sonney <kevin at sonney.com> wrote:
> > * Almost no selection of veggies?
>
> True, but the quality of the veggies is typically better at BH than at CF.

How do you get quality from nothing?  Realize that I'm saying this
as a vegetarian.  Bali Hai doesn't have a selection of veggies
so saying their quality is better doesn't make any sense at all.

> > * Less selection of sauces and spices?
>
> When I have the kitchen to myself I'm more than happy to get creative
> with sauces and spices. But there is such a thing as too many
> selections.

Uh, right.  Yeah.   What you do is you experiment for a while
(they DO have more than a dozen interesting spice combinations
on the wall above them in case you can't handle the possibilities),
find something you like, and then you have it.  But, the size of the
selection means you CAN do that.  You can't do that at all at Bali
Hai.

> > * Some random "hotness number"?
>
> It's not that random once you figure out the system. Think of it as an
> exersize in your deductive reasoning and cryptology skills. ;)

No thanks, I'd rather do worthwhile things.

> > Perhaps this is a cathedral vs bazaar debate here?  Bali Hai is the
> > "cathedral" where you go there and do what you're told while Crazy
> > Fire is the "bazaar" where YOU decide how things will go.  Now, while
> > I definitely prefer emacs (which is the canonical "cathedral") over vi,
> > I definitely prefer "bazaar" style here.
>
> heh. Good analogy. I also like to think of it this way : When I want a
> terminal, I run xterm, I do not rewrite it with alpha-blending or
> transparency. If I want hot & spicy mongolian, I go to Bali Hai.
>
> Crazy Fire is like re-writing xterm from scratch every time you need a
> command prompt. Bali Hai is like patching xterm to support what you
> need.

No, Crazy Fire lets you come up with whatever you want and then
when you go back to it it's there.

> It's all the Bazzar, just different booths. Cathedral Style food
> is...well, McDonalds. Always the same, but you really don't know how
> it's made or where it came from....

"Always the same" - yeah that pretty much describes Bali Hai.

Cheers,
Tanner
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