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Over the years, my uncle’s sign shop has had its share of fame, including a cameo in Spiderman 2 and a hip interior makeover. This time however, it’s my uncle that got to be center stage in a video on CNN.

My favorite Facebook app (which has been one heck of a time sink) is scrabulous. It’s great to play scrabble as a disconnected game and Facebook has the perfect environment to mix this with your friends.  However, I always wondered when Hasbro was going to take an axe to this brand-free effort. Turns out that after many months (and many, many users), Hasbro is trying to shut down Scrabulous. Hopefully they come to their senses and simply buy them out or license their brand (perhaps for a cut of the ad revenues)….

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When I told Don that I was headed to LA for Thanksgiving, he gave a list of his favorite food stops. A couple of them are very close to Helene’s place in Westwood, including Bombay Café.

Bombay Café is a nouveau Indian restaurant (it’s to Indian as El Camino is to Mexican). But they did stock the classic Indian brews, including a large Taj Mahal for my brother-in-law:

There were far too many good looking dishes on the menu to choose from, but since there were four of us we managed a reasonable initial sampling. We opted for one familiar dish that the entire Lavoie family enjoys: Saag Paneer. Bombay Café makes their paneer in-house, and it is notably fresh. The spinach was piping hot, a little sweet, and satisfied my spinach craving. That being said, it wasn’t overly distinctive and could have used a bit more spice.

The highlight of the meal for me was the Chicken Frankie. Frankies are supposedly a popular Indian street food (we haven’t made it to the sub-continent yet, so will have to wait for personal verification).  I can say that the one at Bombay Café was awesome — a dark masala sauce wrapped in a chapati “burrito” form.

I had never heard of white poppy seeds, and so couldn’t pass up the Goan Shrimp Curry (served in a puree of white poppy seeds, coconut and cilantro). It was Helene’s favorite of the pack, and my second favorite after the Frankie. If you like coconut, shrimp, and Indian food then you should definitely get the Goan.

We were deciding on one of the two eggplant dishes, and asked our server who recommended the Eggplant Deva (Japanese eggplant layered with fennel-laced tomato sauce and garlic-ginger infused yogurt). She said it was her favorite dish on the menu. It was good, but next time I’ll try the Baingan Bharta, as I just couldn’t shake the fact that it tasted very much like a pizza with an eggplant crust.

Overall a very enjoyable experience — good food, good beer, good family fun

Bombay Café
12021 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 473-3388

I’m very proud of my friend Sean. For as long as I can remember, Sean has been very passionate about the “social” aspects of computing, He has been living in India for the past few years, and was inspired to apply social computing to help India’s poor. And today Babajob received front page coverage in the International Herald Tribune. Congrats Sean!

To celebrate our paper anniversary, Lauren surprised me with a copy of Super Paper Mario along with a Wii to play it on. I’m enjoying this gift a month early since she completed the expected 4 week Wii search in about 2 hours

If you’re in Miami on Saturday March 24th, check out my sister (a.k.a. DJ Love) on the “Florida Favorites” stage at this year’s Ultra Music Festival.

Congrats Laura!

Good work by my friend Jonah, check it out:

I was welcomed back to Seattle this evening by an amusing article that a friend of mine hit when searching for “Kenny Wolf”. If Time ever writes an article about me, I sure hope they don’t describe me as “something of a freak.”

Happy 2007 everyone!

Today I stumbled across the Christmas Price Index. For just under 19K you too can have lords and partridges and more. Fortunately all we need to acquire is ( 8! + 8 ) candles for the holidays

Sometimes my wishes do come true — looks like Red Octane is stepping up to the plate with a version of Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360. Might finally be time to upgrade…