Reviews

Jenny and the Jaws of Life

February 3, 2007

I wrapped up Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories by Jincy Willett this past week—just in the nick of time to start my next book without being behind schedule in 24 in 12. I had this book on my Amazon wishlist for quite some time now. It would always pop up as a [...]

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Makeout Thursday

January 31, 2007

TOAD: January 29th, 2007: January 29th marks Karen and my 3 year anniversary (the first kind, not the marriage kind) and we usually celebrate it with a holiday called Makeout Thursday. This year was a very special MT in that it fell on Restaurant Week and also involved a trip back to Tom & Jerry’s/288 [...]

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Any other princesses need saving?

January 26, 2007

TOAD: January 25th, 2007: Last night I achieved one of my greater gaming accomplishments of all time: beating The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess, for the Nintendo Wii. What an exceptionally satisfying game it was, too. As I no longer have too much time to play games, completing a game has become quite a [...]

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Bringing Down the House

January 21, 2007

I finished the first of my “24 in 12″ books last week. My kick off book was Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich, a story about a team of card counters from MIT who trade in their lives as engineering and math [...]

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All Star Product: Chuckit!

January 14, 2007

(This is the first in an ongoing series of products that I have found to be executed in a particularly profound way. I will call them Alex’s All Star Products. It doesn’t have the same ring as JD Power and Associates, does it?) For a few years now, I’ve seen the Chuckit swell in popularity [...]

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It’s a bad sign when you can’t make grilled cheese

December 29, 2006

After a trip to the Brooklyn Museum today to see the Ron Mueck and Annie Leibovitz exhibits, Alex and I decided to try the new Brooklyn Burger Bar that has taken the place of Bar Minnow on the corner of 7th avenue and 9th street in Park Slope. I was skeptical of Brooklyn Burger Bar [...]

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The KB Super Awesome Stuff List brings you the Dexas Strainer

October 20, 2006

Apparently Oprah has a list in her magazine each month called the “O List.” I do not know very much about this lists, or about Oprah if we are being honest, I only found out about this list when I went to buy this Puddle Jumper Gym Bag and they were sold out because Oprah [...]

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Sunday Brunch at Kitchen Bar

September 24, 2006

I tend to think aside from a few really great restaurants (al di la, blue ribbon sushi), a lot of eateries in the Park Slope area are more inclined to focus on atmosphere instead of food, which frustrates me. I have tried on multiple occasions to like Cafe Steinhoff, because the people sitting outside are [...]

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My Indispensable Mac Photo Tools: FlickrExport + Keyword Assistant

May 22, 2006

Like many Mac users, I use iPhoto to collect all the photos I take and Flickr to share the ones I want to share. For a long time, getting photos from iPhoto to Flickr was a somewhat painful process. The Uploader Flickr provides is very limited in functionality and takes forever to upload a large [...]

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Best. Shoes. Ever.

May 22, 2006

 [ see it on Flickr ] After about a year of admiring them from a distance and getting recommendations from friends, I finally broke down and purchased a pair of Merrell Chamelon Stretch II shoes this weekend when we happened to wander past an outdoorsy store in Park Slope. From the moment I slipped these [...]

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