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Yesterday had a packed day: breakfast with a friend at Peels on the East Village, lunch with Nicole's dad and Margaret at Longhorn in NJ, and dinner at the famous Locanda Verde in TriBeCa.

Longhorn delivered as usual , but the food at Locanda Verde was excellent overall, with a special mention for the the Lamb sliders, outstanding.

It's my dad's birthday today, feliz cumpleanos papa!!!!

fun and unusual rant from a google engineer. hopefully he won't be fired. saw it the same day it came out, been meaning to post it.

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Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo). We all don’t get it. The Golden Rule of platforms is that you Eat Your Own Dogfood. The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. We had no API at all at launch, and last I checked, we had one measly API call. One of the team members marched in and told me about it when they launched, and I asked: “So is it the Stalker API?” She got all glum and said “Yeah.” I mean, I was joking, but no… the only API call we offer is to get someone’s stream. So I guess the joke was on me….

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pretty awesome, somebody re-developed the game for the C64 22 years after being launched on the apple ii