October 2011
5 posts
Yank Sing →
frigging expensive touristy dim sum place, but i’ve heard the dim sum is quality here.
Japacurry Food Truck →
should go on Thursdays, cause that’s when it’s closest to our office.
Hapa Ramen →
Ken Ken Ramen →
Pop up ramen shop
Deviled Egg Salad Sandwich from Rossi's →
Also linked to from this reply on chowhound.
December 2010
2 posts
“I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did...”
– Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974
September 2010
3 posts
NY's Grilled Cheese Dealer →
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood,...”
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“Parkinson shows how you can go in to the board of directors and get approval for...”
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
55 posts
Up and Then Down →
In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works. (It does work if, say, a fireman needs to take control. But you need a key, and a fire, to do that.) Once you know this, it can be illuminating to watch people compulsively press the door-close button. That the door eventually closes...
“Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.”
– Karl Marx’s purported last words (via raifk) (via quote-book)
WatchWrite the Future. If you currently don’t understand the appeal of soccer to the rest of the world, then this may help. And if you currently do, then it’s all the better.
The Cocktail Creationist →
The story of how a Absolut-quality vodka became the super-brand known as Grey Goose. If you’re going to spend that much on vodka, go for the Belvedere and/or Chopin.
…though to be fair, Le Poire does shoot oh so smoothly.
To the business at hand. The year is now 1996, and, flush with Jager’s success, you’re ready to invent a new vodka from scratch. Why? Because the...
Ever wanted to know what Sweet Child O’ Mine sounded like with a swing? Me neither. But this guy created a python script that adds a swing to any song, and here’s a result:
Sweet Child O’ Mine (Swing Version) by plamere
For more, check out this list of examples.
Joseph Händler riesling, Endangered Species dark chocolate, and Red Bull Cola. My thesis-due-date eve is a paragon of nutritious diets.
The internet as a force for good →
Wow. Earlier today, the members of the amazing internet community of MetaFilter rallied together to save two Russian women from what looks to be a sex trafficking ring. I’m simply in awe at what they were able to accomplish. More here.
a summary of Souder's remarks
The eight-term congressman apologized for his actions: “I’m sorry, Mrs. Jackson,” he said at a news conference in Fort Wayne. “I am for real. I never meant to make your husband cry. I apologize a trillion times.”
-taken from MeFi
One from the chill beats, chill flow mashup...
“His mother has a tattoo with the word ‘son.’”
– Dos Equis, on the most interesting man in the world.
“I won’t go back there, Liz. I can’t suffer through the London...”
– the very British Wesley on 30 Rock
Where does Tracy Morgan come up with this stuff?
Tracy: It’s all coming back to me. Oh my God! I slept on an old dog bed stuffed with wigs! I watched a prostitute stab a clown! Our basketball hoop was a rib cage — a rib cage! Why did you bring me here? I blocked all this stuff out for a reason! Oh, Lord, some guy with dreads electrocuted my fish! And later… Tracy: All my life I’ve tried to forget the things I’ve...
quote-book:
“Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.”
—
Hitch
I love Eva Mendes’ reaction when Hitch recites this. Hitch was light fare, but it was still a really fun movie.
Iraq Is Safer Than California →
It’s riskier to lend money to California than to Iraq, according to an analysis by CMA Sovereign Risk Monitor. Venezuela, Argentina and Greece are at the top of the list, by the way. California is seventh, Iraq is tenth. (Hat tip: Marginal Revolution)
what what
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
