TMI: rustpkg and moving

[tim]

I succeeded at moving to Vancouver! A bit of culture shock. (Feel free to come up with a joke about moving out of a mutable reference or something.) I'm only here for less than three months, so I'm trying to absorb as much of Graydon's knowledge as possible in the meantime.

Continuing to work on the typechecker refactoring (yes, still); running up against very frustrating sporadic segfaults that I'm pretty sure are not to do with my changes, and that's about the most frustrating thing that can happen.

I also started working on rustpkg to finish up the work that our valiant volunteer Zack started. So far, trying to get rustpkg to build rust-sdl. Since rust-sdl requires some custom build logic -- currently implemented in a Makefile -- to rename the library file on Macs, I figured that might be a good starting point for porting that into build logic implemented in Rust that rustpkg can run. Or not; I still don't really know what I'm doing yet.

Figured I'd prioritize resuming regular posting ahead of making informative postings ;-)

Comments

[yam]

Welcome to town! Now that you're here I'm fleeing to California to maintain equilibrium.

(but I'll be back next week, let's totally have dinner. :) )

[tim]

Well, of course! (I envy your ability to regularly travel and, seemingly, somehow keep your life going as well :-)

Just let me know... my evenings next week are wide open except for Friday!

[yam]

How about Sunday?

[tim]

Sunday the 24th? That works... I was thinking about going to Seattle that weekend, but I can be back in time for dinner :-) I don't really know what's good yet, and I should have a functioning bike by then, and it looks like you live not too far from me, so pick a place (as long as it has a non-zero amount of vegetarian food).

[yam]

Yes, the 24th. Or if you'll be in Seattle, a Thursday would work if you don't mind having a toddler come along.

I'll be lazy and pick Foundation, a vegetarian place near my house and a not too far bike from yours - Main at 8th Ave.

Suggestions for other vegetarian places for you to check out while you're in town:

the Naam (quite a bit west, in Kitsilano) - iconic hippie 24 hour vegetarian place that's been there forever and whose staff are extremely forgetful stoners. Their miso gravy is amazing.

Sweet Cherubim, on Commercial drive at... napier I think? I've never done the sit down restaurant part, but I love their take-out samosas. The attached store of the same name has good vegetarian staples, that's where I used to buy bulk nutritional yeast when I was vegan lo these many years ago.

Whole Vegetarian Restaurant - buddhist vegetarian chinese food, Main at 14th. Actual buddhist monks sometimes sitting at the next table.

Bandidas Taqueria - vegetarian mexican - commercial between 11th & 12th

T&T supermarket - one near Stadium Skytrain close to your work, one at 1st & Renfrew that's not a bad bike ride - not a restaurant, but they have a big, cheap selection of tofu, seitan/soybean curd/misc fakemeats, vegetarian frozen dim sum, etc. Though I'm sure that living on the drive you are not experiencing a tofu shortage.

Totally not close at all and inconvenient on transit: Paradise Vegetarian Noodle House in Burnaby. Vegan vietnamese food. Very, very tasty. There's a TV in the corner constantly playing propaganda about a weird Supreme Leader vegetarian cult, which I think Juli has blogged about? It's a chain and this is one of the few cult franchise locations outside of California. They seem like very harmless cultists and the food is excellent. (This is in the suburban minimall where my pharmacy is, which is how I know about it at all.)

[etb]

Totally not close at all and inconvenient on transit: Paradise Vegetarian Noodle House in Burnaby. Vegan vietnamese food. Very, very tasty. There's a TV in the corner constantly playing propaganda about a weird Supreme Leader vegetarian cult

There's some place in Portland (on Burnside? tim might remember) that also has a cult. I wonder if it's the same cult.

[tim]

It's the same cult! Vege House on 2nd and Burnside.

[tim]

Thanks for all the extra recommendations! That should hold me through the rest of my time here ;-) Yeah, I already found T&T on the way home from work. There are SO MANY GROCERY STORES NEAR ME omg I can't quite express how great that is (keep in mind I was previously living here -- note the lack of grocery stores or, well, anything in the vicinity. Except deer, there were lots of those).

As far as Sunday, works for me! Meet at Foundation at 7 PM? I'll only be in Seattle from about 10:45pm Friday-6:00pm Saturday, so Thursday doesn't work, although I'd still like to meet the toddler sometime :-)

[yam]

Sunday at seven it is!

[tim]

Whee, calendar marked!

[tim]

Hey, I'm organizing a few people to go for dinner at Po Kong next week commemorating my last week in town -- I sent an email to your LiveJournal email address, but I'm not sure if those even work anymore, so if you didn't get it, let me know :-) (Somehow, I thought I had a comment with your email address... and then couldn't find it.)