done.

Yank Sing

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:01:18 -0400

Yank Sing:

frigging expensive touristy dim sum place, but i’ve heard the dim sum is quality here.

Japacurry Food Truck

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:55:34 -0400

Japacurry Food Truck:

should go on Thursdays, cause that’s when it’s closest to our office.

Hapa Ramen

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:53:11 -0400

Hapa Ramen

Ken Ken Ramen

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:51:59 -0400

Ken Ken Ramen:

Pop up ramen shop

Deviled Egg Salad Sandwich from Rossi's

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:39:00 -0400

Deviled Egg Salad Sandwich from Rossi's:

Also linked to from this reply on chowhound.

Been in my head all week.

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:18:27 -0500

Been in my head all week.

"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God..."

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:10:57 -0500

“I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘not if you did not know.’ ‘Then why,’ asked the Eskimo earnestly, ‘did you tell me?’”

- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974

NY's Grilled Cheese Dealer

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:32:45 -0400

NY's Grilled Cheese Dealer

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:03:33 -0400

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"Parkinson shows how you can go in to the board of directors and get approval for building a..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:59:00 -0400

“

Parkinson shows how you can go in to the board of directors and get approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar atomic power plant, but if you want to build a bike shed you will be tangled up in endless discussions.

Parkinson explains that this is because an atomic plant is so vast, so expensive and so complicated that people cannot grasp it, and rather than try, they fall back on the assumption that somebody else checked all the details before it got this far. Richard P. Feynmann gives a couple of interesting, and very much to the point, examples relating to Los Alamos in his books.

A bike shed on the other hand. Anyone can build one of those over a weekend, and still have time to watch the game on TV. So no matter how well prepared, no matter how reasonable you are with your proposal, somebody will seize the chance to show that he is doing his job, that he is paying attention, that he is *here*.

In Denmark we call it “setting your fingerprint”. It is about personal pride and prestige, it is about being able to point somewhere and say “There! *I* did that.” It is a strong trait in politicians, but present in most people given the chance. Just think about footsteps in wet cement.

”

sick. wale and his smooth flow. plus the end sounds like daft...

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:37:54 -0400

sick. wale and his smooth flow. plus the end sounds like daft punk.

nbaoffseason: Jeremy Lin eats John Wall’s lunch. (brainworks)

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:00:21 -0400

nbaoffseason:

Jeremy Lin eats John Wall’s lunch.

(brainworks)

Fascinating talk (and animation)

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:28:05 -0400

Fascinating talk (and animation)

Up and Then Down

Thu, 27 May 2010 23:09:00 -0400

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 reinforces their belief in the button’s power. It’s a little like prayer.

Old, but this article about the guy who spent 41 hours trapped in an elevator came up in conversation today. It’s a very well-written piece on what might otherwise be a banal subject.

"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough."

Thu, 27 May 2010 20:40:48 -0400

“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)

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL. An amazing Nike soccer ad from 2008

Thu, 27 May 2010 03:33:57 -0400

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL. An amazing Nike soccer ad from 2008

Write the Future. If you currently don’t understand the...

Wed, 26 May 2010 03:55:12 -0400

Write 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

Tue, 25 May 2010 04:11:13 -0400

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 microbrewed-beer craze is giving way to a new age of sophisticated cocktails. Dot-com dollars are begging to be spent ostentatiously, at expensive nightclubs. Herein lies opportunity.

As you lean back in your golf cart, watching another perfect chip shot bounce up onto the green, you ponder the fact that the premium vodka right now (in 1996) is a brand called Absolut. When it was first introduced, Absolut’s high price was considered outrageous. But it’s had great success (with its iconic, artsy ad campaign), and it now sells for the steep, steep price of about $17 a bottle.

So, to steal away Absolut’s market share, your unborn new vodka should undercut this price, correct? No, you think, chomping your cigar as you watch a 30-foot putt roll straight into the cup. Why don’t I price my vodka extravagantly higher than Absolut, at wildly more profitable margins … and steal Absolut’s market share that way? This was the great insight of Sidney Frank (and not only him: The makers of Ketel One vodka had the same basic idea). Frank could see that there was a product missing from the shelves. Here were all these vodkas, in the $15-to-$17 range, vying to be the premium brand (with Absolut mostly winning). Frank just sidestepped the fray altogether and charged an unheard-of $30 a bottle. The markup amount was pure profit. “He was the first person to see,” says an executive at rival Bacardi, “that there was a superpremium category above Absolut, if you had a good product story.”

HA this is called optimism.

Tue, 25 May 2010 03:54:00 -0400

HA this is called optimism.

Because I just saw it again.

Tue, 25 May 2010 03:51:57 -0400

Because I just saw it again.