If you’re in NYC this winter, there’s no sense wasting your time ordering lattes at starbucks. Instead you should be ordering ultra thick hot chocolate from any one of the frou frou establishments listed in today’s Times (and there’s a video).
As a native manhattanite and enthusiastic consumer of high-end chocolate, I have obviously been to […]
Thanks to Blue State Coffee (and of course Joe in NYC), I don’t find myself at Starbucks nearly as much as I used to. In the days before my ultra hip indy coffee house lifestyle, however, I was a fan of the grande cinnamon latte kind. The Starbucks near my parent’s house just informed me […]
Last night I ended up staying awake way too late because, as I was about to go to bed, I came across these two posts by Salon’s Farhad Manjoo over at his Machinist blog. Apparently J.K. Rowling is suing some fan over his attempt to publish a print version of the Harry Potter Lexicon, an […]
Next time you’re wandering through the hallways of your local computer science department, just, you know, soaking in the atmosphere, you’ll no doubt feel compelled to read the various nerdy comics that students, professor and administrators have chosen to cut out and paste on their office doors (hopefully you like Dilbert). As a CS grad […]
For a while I’ve been planning to write about how my house recently decided to save $80 a month and cancel cable. Growing up, I definitely watched a lot of television. When I went to college, I also watched a lot of television. During the first half of grad school, when I lived by myself, […]
I haven’t posted for a while, but all that’s about to change. My longtime friend David Goodman recently managed to get an article in Sunday’s Times, so I should at least be able to churn out a few blog posts.
According to Dave (and his team of experts) the last 70 years may soon be viewed […]