Taste of Wasted Money and Voice Recorders

Posted by ellisaurus on July 31, 2014

WEnt to taste of Edmonton and had a bunch of really expensive appetizers and tried to get full off them. This was the smoked pork rib. It was just ok, no flavor really.

The spicy corn bread was equally disappointing. It really had no flavor

Checking out the cooking stands inside one of the food tents

Another bland piece of meat- southern fried chicken with no flavor. I seriously didn’t get my money’s worth.

This tent looked cool but I didn’t want to eat expensive tiny dishes of Chinese food.

This was the best dish by far- beef steak from Pampa Brazillian steakhouse

Really tender bacon wrapped chicken

Beef on bread. It tasted better than the name

Banana bread with cream and caramel.

Lots of people hanging out downtown. Not too hot – a great night to be outside. Not unlike now in the heat wave

Really liked the ambiance here

Hotel MacDonald’s berry and scone and cream was really good. Delicate flavors for sure.

I never got to try the scallop here. 😦

Smoked bison with a light dijon.

Hanging out in the dusk

Calamari at Yianni’s Greek Taverna

Greek salad.

Dolmandes which were not as good as I remember them to be

Everything really changed here since we had been here years ago. It looks really nice for sure.

The decorations were beautiful

This dish was not beautiful. It was so little meat and the veggies were so bland. The amount of food was a lot smaller than when we were here last. It was really disappointing.

I was pretty sad about that. I have had two really fantastic dinners here and one really non fantastic dinner.

Gamma Store- its like a weird salty cheese layer that mixes really well with the sweet green tea layer below.

Stuffed pancake snacks.

Killing my calories with Ikea. I’ve really got to slow down on the food.

Sony ICD-SX733 with three mics arrived! Complete overkill for my research interviews but I like to have the best or near the best in tech at a reasonable price. I couldn’t buy just any recorder.

It reminds me of the old Sony Ericsson T610 phone that I lusted at for years. This two tone design just makes me really excited even though its just a voice recorder.

It replaces or augments my old Sony ICD-Ms515 memory stick voice recorder. I bought this back in first year and used it for a few lectures but found I could not bear listening to lectures twice over and made an effort to take good notes the first time.

Ew it only has one mic. Hehe.

It takes a max 128mb memory stick! WTF. Thats quite a bit of space for voice recording and magical compared to analog tape recorders when it came out like in 2003-4 but this thing looks crazy compared to the built in 4gb of my newer SX733 and expandable up to 128gb microsd.

Side by side with grandpa voice recorder. I remember reading about the MS515 and thinking damn I really got something cool when I bought it. Now I feel the same about the SX733. And I don’t really need it that much.

It has a built in USB connector that slides out the bottom. I’m really excited for its little mechanical features (particularly the three way mic).

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