That wasn't scary...

[jay]

Had a nice lunch today with yami_mcmoots in Berkeley, at a Ghanaian restaurant... tangy chicken, plantains and I actually ate the black-eyed peas. And we found each other OK outside of BART, and happily chatted about a wide variety of topics... instruments, vibrometers, relationship structures, space structures, graduate school comparisons, beer... etc. It's fun to find someone with whom I can shift gears from technical to personal and back without either weirding them out or risking the "eyes glaze over" effect. (grins) M. does focussed, animated discussions very well.

And thanks to tenacious_snail for the car loan, since mine is still in the shop... and cyan_blue for a short ride from San Leandro BART, afterwards ;).

Comments

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Yay!

(Ghanian food? Sounds neat! I want to try it!)

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Too bad I'm all the way at the other end of the country, but next time...

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

There were several veg options... it reminded me of creole and caribbean dishes, but spiced more akin to what I think of as Ethiopian.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

instruments, vibrometers,

I just felt like taking those out of context. Do vibrometers measure orgasms caused by vibrators? ;-)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

You could *almost* use one that way, but you'd first need to shave and then attach a foil target to your groin, for the laser...

[yami-mcmoots.livejournal.com]

I had no idea how dirty the word "vibrometers" was until I read it just now. Sign of terminal nerdiness?

Glad I didn't scare you :)

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Very glad you two had a nice lunch together :-) It's *fun* to find new friends to geek with in one's field... I know that I always appreciate meeting other psych folks with whom I share common interests.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Only if you'd actually had a prehensile tail, then I'd have been scared. ;)

I don't know, "vibrometers" had never registered to me as a dirty word either (until this thread...). Although I suppose one could use it to measure... twitches... hmm.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

And I had a nice lunch, too. :)