And the list of participating restaurants has been posted, baby:

http://www.opentable.com/promo.aspx?pid=68&m=9&ref=298

Awesome.

So this new guy just started at work and apparently "his senior thesis was an analysis of the toxicology of the hookah tobacco pipe. His research included mammalian cytotoxicity and mutagenicity assays of hookah 'tar'." Uh, wow.

So guess who pounced on him immediately and demanded The Real Story. Here's what he said:

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'kay, so after a visit by the Company Ergonomic Guy following complaints by all of us about the soreness that comes with Being Oppressed By The Man, i now have a pretty cool footrest that tips back and forth and the coolest mouse EVER:


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Heya!  I'm going to dinner at Willow in Ballston after work on Thursday if anyone wants to meet me there.  Woo-hoo!

NYC, DC, and other cities are doing a promotion from April 16 to 22 where a bunch of spas are offering miscellaneous treatments for $50, kinda like restaurant week.  Go to www.spaweek.org for more details--you have to register, but it's free and quick.

This article blew my mind.  The Washington Post put Joshua Bell, arguably America's greatest classical violinist, in the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station and had him play for an hour to see if passersby would stop to appreciate random beauty during their morning commute.  The WP expected a mob scene, but most people didn't even notice that there _was_ ( Read more... )

Good Food . . . Great Cause!


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For some reason, this appeals to me more than the zillions of tacky homemade gifts out there.  I think this is actually pretty clever.  And cheap!!

http://www.slashfood.com/2007/02/14/hot-chocolate-cones/

Check out this website:  http://www.midnightfantasybritneyspears.com/

You pick a bunch of options from some drop down menus and compose a message that will be delivered IN BRITNEY SPEARS' VOICE to whoever's phone or email you choose.  And you get to preview the message before you send it.  It's beautiful.  My co-workers and I have been calling each ( Read more... )

This story simultaneously soothes me (okay, our place isn't THAT bad) and terrifies me (oh god, some of these tendencies sound familiar!).  The story of some of New York's most obsessive hoarders and their grisly death...

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1008564/posts