DCU Bounties

The bounties are very powerful enemies designed so that you form groups to fight them. Once you power up enough, it is possible to beat them solo. In this playlist, I share strategies for fighting Full House, Solomon Grundy, Clayface, Bizarro, Avatar of Sin, Minotaur & Arkillo on your own.

From Amalur to DC Universe

This is a playthrough of the first level of DC Universe Online with Update 19 applied. It's mainly for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning lovers who are shopping for an MMO to move on to, but also showcases the updated tutorial.

Jin Cheng Restaurant

Location: 142-38 Roosevelt Ave., Flushing, NY
Cuisine: Chinese
Prices: $10/person (dim sum)
Credit Cards: ???

Food: 7
Service: 8
Value: 8
Environment: 6

Frequency: Unique

Jin Cheng is right on the next block from my Dad's office, yet today was the first time we ate there. I've probably passed by it hundreds of times. So it's just odd that we never ate there before! It's probably the most convenient restaurant to go to. It's pretty comfortable for a weekday dim sum since it's away from the Roosevelt/Main St. intersection. The office workers on lunch break wouldn't make the effort to move past Union.

The dim sum didn't have the variety that competing restaurants do, but the taste was OK at least. Portions were average to large. Some thoughts...
- siu mai - tasted great, but poorly crafted. The meat kept sliding out of the skin
- shrimp dumplings - average
- pork ribs - poor... more fat than meat
- fish head - original and actually good... great sauce. I usually don't eat fish head.
- squid - average
- radish cake - very fresh

The only thing lacking in this restaurant was the environment. It's a little dirty with flies, which probably factored into the NYC "B" rating.

Raspberry Pi User Guide

During his talk at Maker Faire, Eben Upton mentioned his book, Raspberry Pi User Guide. I searched for it on my phone to find that Wiley published it! So I ordered it the next day with my employee discount. I had already gone through the basic setup and now I just need ideas on what I should do with it.

The first few chapters go over the basic setup steps that I got from the website already. They also go over wi-fi setup, which is my next step. Projects include using it as an HTPC, web server and basic productivity machine. There are also basics to Python and hardware hacking.