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For Mik & George
Topic Started: May 12 2017, 04:21 PM (148 Views)
Catseye3
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Reading a book that has among other things little vignettes about people who are living the dream. Two of them seem like they'd be interesting to y'all.

For Mik: "Jiro Ono lives in Tokyo and operates the three-star Michelin restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro. At more than 70 years old, he has spent his adult life preparing and serving sushi with unwavering passion. He is absolutely, positively committed to the task at hand. Meals at his restaurant take only 15 minutes to eat at a simple counter. There is a set menu of sushi (No appetizers! Nothing ordered a la carte!) and reservations are taken up to a year in advance. The bill is approximately $300 per person, no credit cards accepted.

"During much of a documentary film that portrays his family and restaurant, Jiro repeatedly declares his dedication to his work, how he values his skill above all else, and so on. It's noble but a bit monotonous. Then we see him come alive as he talks about what really drives him: the fish itself. "When we have a good tuna, I feel great," he says with a smile. "I feel victorious!"

"[The author] laughed out loud when I heard Jiro talking about feeling victorious over a good tuna. But I also got the message: The man loves what he does."
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For George: "There's a popular online video of a train enthusiast who spots a particularly exciting carriage coming his way down the tracks. 'OH MY GOD!' he shouts. 'I've been waiting for this moment for months, and it's finally here. I am finally gonna get a Heritage Unit on camera! Whoo-hoo! Yeah!'

"Don't relate to the excitement? Don't know what a Heritage Unit is? That's because you're not a train enthusiast like Mark McDonough, the guy who made the original 'Excited Train Guy' video."

Footnote: The most popular "Excited Train" video is actually an homage to the lesser-known original. To see both of them, Google "excited train guy".
"I shall now begin to speak of purple, which exceeds all the colors that have so far been mentioned both in costliness and in the superiority of its delightful effect." -- Vitruvius, De architectura, 1st century BC.
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George K
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Catseye3
May 12 2017, 04:21 PM
For George: "There's a popular online video of a train enthusiast who spots a particularly exciting carriage coming his way down the tracks. 'OH MY GOD!' he shouts. 'I've been waiting for this moment for months, and it's finally here. I am finally gonna get a Heritage Unit on camera! Whoo-hoo! Yeah!'
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Mikhailoh
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I get Jiro totally. He's a fanatic about the best ingredients, as am I, albeit not to his stratospheric heights.

I would also not eat in his place if you paid me. $300 for a 15 minute meal snack that he determines? Not in this American's world.
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Horace
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People can get pretty fringe-y if they think about something hard enough. I'm not sure if it was that guy, but some world-class Japanese sushi chef I heard or read interviewed once said that the fundamental taste of sushi which must be brought out is..... the rice.

Uh huh. Yeah.
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George I can't believe you didn't post the autotuned version. Pretty good!

Enjoy!
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May 13 2017, 05:44 PM
George I can't believe you didn't post the autotuned version. Pretty good!

Enjoy!
Damn.

Another perfectly good keyboard ruined. :lol2:
A guide to GKSR: Click

"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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Horace
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Excited Plinko Guy
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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