http://www.thestuffilike.org A list of everything I, Shawn Leslie, like. Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:34:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's nothing better Full English Breakfasts and it's always a bonus when you can find a place that serves them when you're away from the motherland. Even better? Making one yourself, and using ingredients that are available locally. After a couple of months of buying groceries at the Wan Chai ... http://www.thestuffilike.org/21-full-english-breakfasts-and-hong-kong-wet-markets/ Hypothesis: A cell phone will get cold if you put it in the freezer. Method: Put a cell phone in a freezer, and measure the temperature through bluetooth communication and monitoring software. Background: I have a super cheap Sony Ericsson K550i with all the usual features: 2.0 megapixel camera, FM radio, and ... http://www.thestuffilike.org/20-pointless-experimentation/ Back when everyone bought CDs, my favorite thing to do was browsing through the selection at used CD shops. I did this for years, and found a ton of music by combing through the other people's discards. I was never a collector -- I was in this only for the ... http://www.thestuffilike.org/19-buying-random-cds-that-are-good/ Chinese food looks simple to cook. There's nothing to bake; everything is flash fried or steamed. All soup is made in front of you, even at a roadside stand. There's separate bowls for all the ingredients; you order; they mix it all up with hot water and hand it to ... http://www.thestuffilike.org/18-vegetables-chinese-style/ I am a food snob. It has to be fresh, spicy, and interesting. I will never eat bologna. But there is one foodstuff that I love despite its pedestrian roots -- the hamburger. It takes a lot of work to cook one the right way. Regular meat, corn flakes, eggs, ... http://www.thestuffilike.org/17-hamburgers/ I've seen two Olympic torch relays in my life. The first one was for the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988. I remember it being very cold. I remember the cheap plastic cups and candles they gave us to share the flame amongst the crowd. I carefully took the burning candle ... http://www.thestuffilike.org/16-olympic-torch-relays/ It's the only frontier of humanity left in the world. The new wild west. Whenever I go there, it feels like I'm in Denver circa 1890. I can't prove that this is really like the old wild west, but the energy here is crazy, frenetic, and never ending. There is ... http://www.thestuffilike.org/15-shenzhen/ You don't know what crude oil tastes like, do you? I do. You've seen the stuff in movies, but it's usually fake. I've never seen convincing snow in a movie, ever, and I've never seen convincing crude oil in a movie. You probably don't even know what crude oil ... http://www.thestuffilike.org/14-knowing-what-crude-oil-tastes-like-when-you-dont/ I love "pulling" all nighters. There has been some boring ones where I spent the night in an office coding up lottery ticket data, but the following is my favorite one. One that will never be topped. My number one all time best all nighter. The Plan Spend a night in ... http://www.thestuffilike.org/13-all-nighters/ what about lorenzos on yokohama tires? what about when people say "take that chain off boy, you're blinding me"? what about the 40 billion candle light atop the Luxor? what about drink till we throw up? what about candy coated helicoptors with leather covers? what about private planes with 30 inch lorenzos? - Enron Poem First off, ... http://www.thestuffilike.org/12-goldman-sachs-phone-screens/