• Last Books Read

    (T) This Perfect Day - Like a blast from the past, I felt like a 10 year old again reading this 1970 Ira Levin sci-fi. How life might be if everything around us was controlled to be efficient and healthy. Surprisingly, nakedness and sex plays a big role...
    ***

    (T) In Defense of Food - Eat food. Not so much. Mostly plants. An informative read on why Westerners spend so much time trying to eat right and almost always get it wrong.
    ****

    (T)Are You There Vodka? It's me, Chelsea - The ramblings of Chelsea Handler. Pretty funny. Good candy.
    ****

    (T) Namesake - I didn't enjoy this book. At all. I do now crave Indian food.
    *

  • Last Homemade Meals

    (K)Rice & Beans - Kelly makes great, classic Brazilian food

    (K) Striped Bass and Greens - With ginger and onions and includes microwaving the fish. It's damn good.

    (T) Split Pea Soup - A classic. So easy. So good.

    (T) Braised Pork Belly - A My first experience making pork belly. Super simple. So rich. So cheap. Why we pay so much for this in restaurants is beyond me.

  • Latest Restaurants



    Enoteca Barbone -Still awesome Italian/Babboo rip-off. I really like the owner, prices and pasta.
    ****

    Slurp - New Vietnamese restaurant in LES. We were the only ones there. Comparable to Compuchea, but better and cheaper
    **

    SavorNY - A FoodCandy article on the wall! Tapas from around the world. Pretty good
    ***

    Taisho Yakitori - Best in groups, Taisho is maybe my favorite restaurant in the city, currently.
    *****

    Clinton St Baking Company - An LES brunch favorite, the pancakes and crab cakes are some of the best we've ever had, but the line outside on a weekend make it something only worth it on the weekday.
    ***

    Chickie Pig's - Literally across the street, Chickie Pigs servers up thin, oval-shaped pizzas in a brick oven. Focus is on the crust and not the toppings.
    **

    Banjara - Finally! Good Indian. Embedded in the 6th St Indian madness is Banjara with delicious curries, dosas and samosas.
    ***

    The E.U. - A new chef prepares European comfort food including a thick and rich cassoulet, braised short ribs and Chicken and Dumplings along with a wide assortment of european beers. Very good.
    ***

    Falai - Modern Italian. Homemade Pasta. Creative Dishes like Beet & Lobster Risotto. One of the best meals had in NYC so far.
    *****

    Cafe Glechik - A Ukrainian cafe in Brighton Beach known for their dumplings. Try the veal and the Siberian.
    ***

    Rosario's Pizza - A tourist favorite of the LES, we read about this in one of our guide books. Pretty good pizza, but nothing special. Stay with the cheese.
    *

    Trattoria Spaghetto - Also mentioned in our guidebook, this Italian eatery actually turned out a better than expected lunch.
    **

    NY Noodletown - A decent Chinatown stop for Shrimp Wonton Noodle Soup. Reminds me of Canton Wonton Noodle House in Seattle
    **

Loving It

Posted on May 11, 2008 by kelch25

Sony digital reader

Our new Sony eReader

Last month Diesel and I were really obsessed with getting either a Kindle or the Sony digital reader. We even went to the store and played around with the Sony one. As for the Kindle, I had it in my Amazon cart and was ready to hit the “buy” button before I realized that it was in backorder and who knows when we were going to get it. Looking back, even with an employee discount that would have cost way more than we wanted to pay (of course now that we don’t want it, it is IN STOCK).

Anyhow, this one was FREE! While we were in Seattle, Diesel mentioned he REALLY wanted an eReader. His boss was like: I got one from the leadership conference and don’t want it. Do you want it?

And of course Diesel shamelessly said “yes.”

And now we have it!

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4 Responses to “Loving It”

  1. eternal, on May 11th, 2008 at 11:29 pm Said:

    Small detail, but I didn’t get it from my boss, rather somebody else on the executive team…

  2. Molly, on May 12th, 2008 at 12:14 am Said:

    I am SOOOOO jealous (once again). Will you be bringing it to book group? I’d love to know your thoughts on it - pros and cos of a reader vs. a paper book. Does it allow for RSS feeds? So many questions…

  3. David, on May 13th, 2008 at 12:40 am Said:

    Here are my pros and cons:
    Pros… having books feels wasteful. I’m not an enviromentalist by any stretch of the word, but I’ve handed down so many books in my lifetime, I’m pretty sure I could’ve saved a Redwood tree by now had I been reading e-books the whole time.

    I also have the Sony… it’s very light and portable. It takes less than two minutes to download a book to the computer and transfer it to the reader. When I read before bed, I like take off my glasses… I can still see the text, or if I can’t I just enlarge the font. As I get older, this will come in handy.

    Cons… even though it takes little power, the flight attendants don’t get that and force you turn it off. That sucks. I feel uncomfortable leaving it at my towel when I jump in the ocean. While cheaper than brick and mortar books, they still aren’t cheap enough. The selection is there yet… but it’s getting much better.

    Finally, and this key… I love books. I like holding them, and I like the way they smell. I like the covers. Physically, books are wonderful. An e-reader is a machine.

    I’m glad I got one. It’s actually one piece of electronic equipment that hasn’t become ‘junk’ after year. But, reading books is far more aesthetically pleasing.

  4. eternal, on May 13th, 2008 at 4:14 am Said:

    There is no support for RSS feeds but there is some software that can convert them to PDFs so that the Sony software will import them, but I haven’t gotten that to work. This is unfortunate because I think the ability to read the paper in the morning would be a big selling point, it certainly is for the Kindle.

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