I ate sushi today, it was great.

I love buffet-style restaurants. Really, it’s almost absurd how much better all-you-can-eats are as compared to order-and-pay type restaurants. I mean, I’m a hungry dude. I like to eat, and while I do value good food (rather than just quantity of food), I would prefer to leave full of “OK” food instead of leaving only half-satisfied by great food. There’s a lot of Asian buffet restaurants over here, they’ve been popping up all over the place, like mushrooms, these things, but I am not upset in the slightest, I love them! I also love mushrooms, by the way.

The restaurant I went to this time is one I’ve been to many, many times in the past. It’s great. There’s a decent selection, very reasonable prices, and good quality. It’s by no means the best sushi I’ve ever had, not even close really, but it’s good enough that I don’t complain about the quality. Some of their stuff is actually really good, even compared to some other much more expensive sushi places I’ve been to. Their biggest advantage though, is price. They’re the cheapest buffet place I’ve ever been to. Lunch is €10. What? €10 for an all-you-can-eat? SUSHI?! And sushi isn’t everything they have either, I love their shrimp tempura and their cooked stuff. I usually stick to the tempura and the sushi—I just prefer that—but they have good food. And for the price, I genuinely believe you can’t get better than this. The service is great too, they’re all very nice, quick, helpful. It’s fantastic really. The restaurant is usually pretty busy, actually, which is to be expected for such great value.

The other two places I can think of right now that I’ve been to offer higher quality but for higher prices. One’s priced at €15 and the other at €20. See what I mean? If it costs 50% more I’m expecting a 50% improvement in the experience but that’s just not the case. To be fair to the €15 place it’s not a sushi spot, it’s an “Asian” thing, but they do have sushi, though it’s a mediocre selection. They’re good, sure, but not good enough that it’s meaningful, and the selection of other foods, while varied and high in quality, just doesn’t move me. I prefer sushi, sushi is fantastic, so you can have great other seafood, but it’s still worse than sushi. And their sushi is just OK, really. The €25 place though has much better sushi, probably because it is, yes, a sushi place. Now my problem with that one is that it costs fucking DOUBLE man! I’m not paying double if it’s not worth double, and it isn’t. Don’t get me wrong, the selection is great and the quality is very respectable, the service is also good but much worse than the first place I mentioned—they use a little device for selecting and ordering the food instead of just having the food on a table and the place is much bigger, so the staff is much less available overall. Still, it’s great, I don’t mind going there by any means, if I’m not the one paying.

I love to eat.

Also, I love to customize things. I spent a little bit of time today changing up my Firefox. I’ve been officially converted to the vertical tab cult! It is actually much better. Firefox “recently” added an experimental feature with the vertical sidebar tabs, and it’s good, but they haven’t added tab groupings yet. That really sucks, it really, really does. I mean, the biggest benefit of vertical tabs isn’t the visibility, I’d argue, but the very intuitive way tabs can be collapsed into groups. Sideberry and TST are great at this, but Mozilla is clearly behind the edge here. Which is fine, you know, it’s a company rather than some random individual programmer, it’s OK that they’re late to the party, but there’s so many alternatives out there that really do a great job at this (Arc, Zen…). I just tweaked my Sideberry and did some userChroming to get the setup as minimal as possible with the vertical tabs with groups. Sideberry calls them panels, whatever, they’re groups.

Here’s a pic:

Pretty nice, if I do say so myself. Very minimal, very functional… Very… D–Demure?! I suppose…