In Dean & Deluca you can find the most exquisite culinary treats (most from Europe, of course). And while there are so many to choose from a foodie like me could not make his mind up in a hundred years, I must admit the cuteness of this snowman-cake won me over:
On the other hand, even when one sticks to very healthy vegetarian (mostly vegan, sometimes macrobiotic, but always with the exception of sushi) diet, it seems impossible to scape the “over-spiced” cooking in the US.
The world around us is full of signs. I wont go on dabble about _signifiers_, _meanings_, and the psychoanalitycal importance of the _word_. But sometimes I just cant help myself, when I see a sign begging for a creative interpretation:
Cmon, dont tell me you don`t see something like:
If you press this button, your mouth will become a hotspot
or
A giant asteroid is heading towards your SpaceInvaders spacecraft, push the button to destroy the asteroid with a Dune-sque voice-blast
Of course, the first year living in NY, new year`s eve party HAD to include a peregrination to Times Square. And since we had tickets to the Iridium concert (the Mike Stern Band featuring Randy Brecker, John Patitucci & Dave Weckl), we figured we would get a taste of it taking the subway to 42nd/Times Square (since police closed the nearer 50th st station)… and did we indeed!!
The Broadway/42nd intersection was incredibly packed.
My friend Juangui sends me a great collection of geeky xmas cards. I would definitely choose this one:
According to Wikipedia:
The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The “valley” in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot`s human likeness.
The term was coined by the robotics professor Masahiro Mori as Bukimi no Tani Gensh?
I am referred to (not addressed to, of course) in third person?
I hate to give in on the Xmas-Santa-Market craze. That`s why I have waited until after the 25th to offer you these hints:
Giftmeister (interactive suggestions) Uncrate (random ideas) Mugs (it does not take so much to make a geek happy, does it?) Online stores (ThinkGeek, XtremeGeek, IWantOneOfThose, MakerSHED…) BrickAndMortar stores (Robot Village, the Wired Store… right across the street from the office!)
