In all the fuss over the last few days I haven't mentioned that our friend Jani Patokallio has been in town this week. Jani is a longtime, dedicated Wikitraveller who's been instrumental in the success of the site; his dad works at the Finnish Embassy in Canada so he gets the occasion once in a while to be in our neck of the woods. It was great to have him here.
First, it was good because we finally managed to go out to Maamm Bolduc, the fantastic nearby diner/restaurant with the great poutine that I mentioned in Journal/20 Prairial CCXIV. Great according to montrealpoutine.com, that is. And I have to confess: it was an incredibly good poutine. Maj and I got the végé, which was rich with fried mushrooms and peppers, and Jani got the bourguignonne, full of wine and beef. I think we all left satisfied.
We also managed to head out to Chu Chai, the Thai restaurant on rue St Denis with all the fake meat. Jani brought his brother Mikko who's at McGill right now, and they didn't seem to mind the tofu and seitan and stuff, so it must be good.
I also had showed Maj the HugAFinn game, and we resolved to earn some points while we had two Finns in a relatively captive situation. I think both J & M were nonplussed by our hugging advances, but once they learned that it was in the interest of gaining points, they acquiesced stoically. Fine people, the Finns!
tags: jani maam bolduc poutine chu chai hug a finn
Thanks Matt
Matt Brubeck pointed out a 7-line shell script to fix the ssh UI problem I pointed out on Journal/2 Vendémiaire CCXV. At least I think it was Matt -- he didn't sign his comment.
This makes the second time in the last week or so that someone else has edited my WikiBlog. I guess it's a good thing, but it's making me think I need to work out some formal way to do commenting.