Tonight for dinner, I went to try out the newly-opened Se Ja Meh (meaning 3 sisters in Korean, and alternately spelled “Seh Ja Meh” and “Se Ja Meh” in their site and menu – oops, oh well whatever!).  It’s located at 114 Greenwich St, just up the street from my apartment building.  Now that I [...]

From Avaaz.org: In the wake of a massive cyclone, at least 22,000 Burmese are dead. More than 40,000 are missing. A million are homeless. But what’s happening in Burma is not just a natural disaster–it’s also a catastrophe of bad leadership. Burma’s brutal and corrupt military junta failed to warn the people, failed to evacuate [...]

The Wine Trials is an upcoming book that describes of a series of blind tastings that I took part in last year. The tastings were great fun. We were encouraged to come up with creative, uncensored descriptions of wines. I thought one of the wines tasted like cat pee. The book recommends 100 wines under [...]

Check out Pandora, an Internet Radio Station that lets you create your own radio stations based on songs or artists that you like and introduces other songs and artists into the mix based on their musical similarities.  Words don’t do it justice, so give it a try and you will be hooked! Thanks to Iain [...]

DOWN WITH ARIAL!  From Helvetica vs. Arial:  Helvetica was developed by the Haas Foundry of Switzerland in the 1950s. Microsoft distributed a typeface called Arial, a very similar typeface, that comes bundled with every desktop computer Thus Arial has now overtaken Helvetica as the standard font in practically everything done by those who don't know [...]