Of accidents, pork jerky, and business happenings

"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
06/07/2019 at 18:50 • Filed to: jerky, bak kwa, miata, accidents

Yesterday I attended Haute Dokimazo. It’s a cool unconference that was hosted at SF Wine Works for people who are/have been in charge of putting on corporate events/marketing. It was a super cool format where you immediately got dropped into a family style meal with strangers for a half hour before nominating (and voting on) discussion group topics. Then while someone gave a short keynote, the organizers tallied the votes, contacted the nominees via text, and put the schedule up on a big projector. There were then 3 time blocks with 5 sessions in each so you could choose your own adventure - followed by fancy finger food and drinks. I had a surprisingly good time and learned a lot. Increased my LinkedIn network by 5 solid people. Good times. (I am also getting close to signing my second client for my PR firm and as of today have a meeting mid-month about taking on additional work from a creative agency in the city).

However, on the way home, things got interesting.

I was sitting in traffic, in the Miata, minding my own business, when the F150 in front of me decided it would back up... right into me. There was only about a foot of room and there wasn’t even time for me to hit the horn. It was straight from “oh Fffff” to *crunch*.

There wasn’t a safe spot to pull over and it was not going to make any friends to stop traffic at the entrance to the Bay Bridge. The F150 made an illegal U-Turn to say “you good?!” as if I could call upon an out-of-body experience to divine whether my bumper was damaged. I got his phone number, made sure it was valid, and kept going. When I got home, found that the crunch sound was just the California mandated front plate all wadded up, so I texted him to say “you’re good”.

But here’s what I took away from this whole thing: 1) Whoever optioned an F150 of this generation without a backup camera / sensor should be banished to northeastern Europe to spend all of eternity dealing with insurance fraud without the use of a dashcam. 2) Drive a shitbox - it will halve the raise in your blood pressure when this eventually happens. 3) I now really want to design my own front bumper for when I restore the Miata but then I’ll need a new shitbox.

This finally brings me to pork jerky . Watch this video and tell me it doesn’t make you want to sit around in the sun and eat jerky and drink tea. Bak Kwa is SUPER popular in Singapore and was the culinary highlight of my trip there a few years ago. Honestly, you don’t have to have the fish/oyster/red bean sauce to make this. Substitute to your heart’s content, but definitely give this a try. I know what I’m doing this weekend... eating pork jerky and plotting the future of the Miata.

DISCUSSION (12)

lone_liberal > Nick Has an Exocet
06/07/2019 at 19:05

Can confirm #2. It’s part of the reason my Windstar was a great winter beater. People could slide in to it and it just didn’t matter.

jimz > Nick Has an Exocet
06/07/2019 at 20:23

I’m eating jerky and drinking beer. and the sun is out.

DipodomysDeserti > Nick Has an Exocet
06/07/2019 at 21:09

A family style dinner with San Francisco marketing people. This is what I’d imagine hell is like.

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > Nick Has an Exocet
06/07/2019 at 22:02

There’s a Singaporean pork ( and beef) jerky place here in SoCal that I use to resupply the wife appeasement snack cabinet.

Nick Has an Exocet > DipodomysDeserti
06/07/2019 at 22:07

Eh, it was mainly events people. There were a few blowhards, but for the most part it was nice respectful people with good attitudes. There was a woman who I chatted with quite a bit who said “screw it” to marketing and started her own yoga studio instead, haha. It was also the first SF event I’ve been to where the women greatly outnumbered men.

Nick Has an Exocet > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
06/07/2019 at 22:20

I’ve never had it, but I’ve heard it’s good. I actually gifted some to my brother once.

DipodomysDeserti > Nick Has an Exocet
06/07/2019 at 22:54

I would have stabbed myself in the eye as soon as she said she owned a yoga studio.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Nick Has an Exocet
06/08/2019 at 02:10

I accidentally made some chicken jerky yesterday. I put some thighs and a breast in the oven to cook low and slow, all day, and promptly forget about them. The thighs turned out OK, maybe slightly on the mushy side, but the breast is a shriveled up flat thing that probably would be rejected by a hungry canine...

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
06/08/2019 at 02:11

Wha? Where? This sounds like something I need to check out the next time I'm back home...

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > lone_liberal
06/08/2019 at 02:17

I had a Windstar once, a freebie that came with every body panel dented due to the actions of some malevolent ramp agents at the airport I worked at. If someone hit it you wouldn’t have been able to tell. I didn’t worry about careful parking with that car, and if I bumped into something, like the pole next to my carport, I didn’t care. I found it kind of funny that when I did tap that pole a huge chunk of bondo fell out. Yeah, my employer didn't exactly spend big bucks on fancy body repairs, and the weight of that PoS probably doubled because of all that body filler...

Nick Has an Exocet > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/08/2019 at 02:25

Haha, I enjoy chicken like that every once in a while. It’s jerky !

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/08/2019 at 22:56

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