Unknown facts about me #26 and #72
1. Despite what witnesses may say, I really am an excellent driver when no one is in the car with me.
2. I often belt out this song when I am driving by myself.
May132013
May72013
Tony Hu Opening Two New Lao Sze Chuans and a Karaoke Space
Like an ancient Chinese imperial army, the Tony Hu empire continues to steamroll the Chicago Chinese restaurant market. The ink is barely dry on leases for two new Lao Sze…
Lao Sze Chuan is the best chinese restaurant in Connecticut, and I discovered that it was actually a wayward branch of the Chicago original. So awesome that it’s creating a mini-empire (which will mean that the food quality will go down, but at least we will remember its former greatness)
May62013
Someone asked to be LinkedIn with me, with this as their LI photo….Once again, I’m going to chalk this up to a case of mistaken identity…
I probably should take this opportunity to discuss the importance of an appropriate Linked In profile photo, but that would ruin the effect.
May42013
Johnny Marr sings How Soon is Now?
This is a great performance, but I think he shouldn’t have tried to sing it like Morrissey. He made a few timid changes to reduce the emo and add more rock, but if he sang it in his voice, it would have been an amazing take on a classic song.
(Note: love his latest album, where he did just that)
May22013
I’m excited to share a little iOS game I made called Dots. Let me know what you think. <3
Grab it here: http://nerdyoctopus.com/dots
PLAY IT!
May12013
Take the H.E.L.M. Competition Relaunches!
Yesterday, NYCEDC kicked off the second round of Take the H.E.L.M., our competition to encourage businesses to Hire + Expand in Lower Manhattan. Watch video as NYCEDC Executive Director Kyle Kimball launched the competition at TechCrunch Disrupt NY.
Take the H.E.L.M. will award four grand prizes of $250,000 each and four runners-up prizes of $50,000 each to companies looking to move or expand into Lower Manhattan. The competition seeks to bring startups, as well as creative and technology companies from around the world, across the country and throughout New York City to the Financial District in order to encourage growth and diversify the area’s economy.
Applications for the first stage of the competition will be accepted through July 15, 2013. For more information or to apply, visit the Take the H.E.L.M. website.
Photos by Kelly Ernst/NYCEDC
Kyle Kimball is the man!
March142013
Overheard at a 20-year High School Reunion
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A: ”I had to walk away from the conversation after he told me that he now owns 15 properties in London”
B: ”I left when he said he just flew in from his summer home in Majorca”
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A: ”I take it you weren’t friends with that blonde group over there.”
B: ”No, but I did notice that they got blonder.”
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A: ”Please settle this once and for all. When we were in Kindergarten, I used to wear a Kiss T-shirt, right?”
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A: ”She had twins and then wrote a book about how she can work, be a mom to twins and have it all.”
B: ”I guess it includes all of her eyebrows too.”
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A: ”You’re not Nancy?? I swore you were Nancy.”
B: ”No, you’re mixing me up with one of the other 4 Asian girls in our class.”
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A: ”I always had a crush on you.”
B: ”No, you hated me.”
A: ”No, I didn’t.”
B: ”No, you definitely hated me.”
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A (to C): ”Is this your girlfriend? Or wife? Hey, nice to meet you.”
B: ”Um, she’s neither. She’s a classmate of ours.”
C (to C, but in earshot of B): ”He was always a mimbo, wasn’t he?”
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A: ”I will NEVER forgive you for making me get a B in Chemistry! Never!”
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A: ”No I’m not married, I don’t have kids and am not working.”
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A: ”Yes, we have a three year-old child. She hates me already.”
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A: ”My husband totally wants to punch him the face for ditching me at the prom”
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A: ”He married a woman who looks a *lot* like his sister. Yeahhhhh…..”
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A: ”What happened to the guy who had hair like Kid from Kid ‘n Play?”
B: ”He’s over there.”
A: ”Wow. No hair.”
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A: “Ohmygod - when ‘Like a Prayer’ comes on, we all have to DANCE!”
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A (to bartender at open bar): ”What kind of beer do you have?”
Bartender: ”Coors Light.”
B: ”What kind of liquor do you have?”
Bartender: ”Gordon’s Gin.”
A (to B): ”We need to go downstairs and buy drinks.”
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A: ”Wow - so everyone just turns into their dad or mom, huh?”
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February192013
Productivity
In an attempt to become more productive, I’ve been thinking about how I work and my path of focus. Unfortunately, the best analogy I can come up with is that I work against a call stack of randomized subroutines. Clearly, I have my work cut out for me…
March42012
Gah…tie. IRL v FR 17-all
February272012
Lot18 Blog: Cocktails, Sausages and Zombies
Chris Hallowell, Features Editor, Lot18
Today at the Lot18 office, everyone is talking about the Oscars. Frankly, I’m disappointed in my co-workers. Let’s get our priorities straight people; there was a new episode of The Walking Dead last night. Movie awards are fine and all, but shows…
(Source: lot18)
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