Let's get this out of the way... the food portion of this post is about Dorado Tacos. It's located near NYU and across the street from Num Pang, if that gives you a good geographical point of reference. They serve three dollar fried fish tacos. In my book that's a decent deal on fish tacos, even though I think the grilled fish taco is $3.25. Steph and I tried the fried fish, grilled fish, and chorizo taco. All three were bangin' and priced not-too-bad. A fatass like myself is never full after three tacos, but it's probably a good number for a reasonable person, which means you could be aight with a $10 dollar meal, provided you drink nothing. Which I have to say, I've done many times in my life in order to make meals affordable. That's right, fuck you on drinks, fuck you on desserts, and fuck you on appetizers. If this was a sitdown restaurant, the server would look at me like crazy, because how dare someone with such below-average looks put someone else in the friend-zone. Because that's really what happens when all you order is an entree at a sit-down place. Luckily, Dorado is not a formal restaurant, you order your food and find your own seating. It's in that weird marketing zone of they probably want to market to NYU students, but even when I was a NYU student, that shit be too expensive for me. Now as a fully grown adult who struggles to find a reasonably priced apartment to rent, I find Dorado tacos to be properly priced for the time being. For the rest of this post, I'm going to talk about Jeremy Lin. If you don't care about basketball, I'm putting you in the friend-zone.... [Continue reading]

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February 15, 2012 at 4:45 pm

Only a fool would think about getting a new job, finding a new rental apartment, and writing a mashup web app all at the same time, but here I am, attempting all three things. It helps that Steph is spearheading the efforts for apartment hunting but damn, if there's one thing to really get a person to motherfucking hate New York City and the laws of supply and demand, it's apartment hunting in this damn city. Luda probably said it best. Yea... So I had some lunch from La Taza De Oro last week. It wasn't as great as Linsanity or anything like that, but it was pretty good. I mean, fried pork chops + rice and beans? Awesome.... [Continue reading]

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February 10, 2012 at 9:56 am

A new thing that I'm trying to do more of is to assume that things are going to work out for the better. Too often it's easy to get caught up on things not worth worrying about like sharks by a beach or meeting strangers off of the internet (totally safe! I've done it many times!) With that said, it's always better to just relax, take in what life has to offer, and maybe eat a late lunch on a weekend day. Steph and I went to Buvette a few weeks ago because it's a nice place to go for some decent non-fussy French food. Generally around dinner time, this place is a zoo, since it's tiny. Go in the middle of the afternoon on a weekend? Awesome because it's not too crazy in there yet.... [Continue reading]

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January 31, 2012 at 3:05 pm

It's difficult to find something more affordable than doubles from the Trini Paki Cart. I actually had it maybe a month or two ago and I can't even remember the price, but I think it was $2. It's really a simple thing. You get two pieces of flat breads and you spread some chick peas in the middle of the bread, and you get this really delicious carb-y sandwich kinda thing. Even though it might look like a sandwich, you'd be wise to eat this delicious thing with a fork because it gets a little messy if you tried to pick it up. They even add some hot sauce on there if you want an extra kick, and it makes a difference for sure. If you don't know where to find the Trini Paki Cart, it's on 6th ave and 43rd street, on the south east corner of the intersection.... [Continue reading]

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January 25, 2012 at 11:48 am

Recently I tortured Steph into watching Game of Thrones with me. There's dragon eggs in that show, and I've previously told many of my friends that zombies are more believable than vampires. And I think that rule applies to dragons as well. You can sell me on The Walking Dead, but Game of Thrones... how the hell do you end up with dragons?! Watching television in America is like the national past-time, sorry to baseball. But this day in age, I don't think it's possible to really watch television guilt free unless you're a baller. What's strange is that ballers probably don't watch that much tv shows. Now if you're reading this, I don't know what industry in which your ply your craft, but suppose you a writer... I mean, there's not going to be some new revolutionary shit out every year on how to construct a sentence. But in programming? The way they wrote a popular site like Amazon in 2005 looks nothing like the code behind Amazon in 2008 and looks way different in 2012. For those who aren't versed in web development that might seem absurd, but it's completely true. Imagine if they rewrote Shakespeare every three to five years. Or if you're a doctor. There might be new advances in medicine but a human body doesn't fucking change. I'll tell you now that Twitter and Foursquare are two of the most popular sites out there, and their codebase looks nothing alike. They don't even code in the same language. So how is a web developer supposed to watch a show on a Saturday night and be like, "well I ain't able to work at a facebook, foursquare, or a twitter cuz unless I'm learning that shit instead of watching TV, all that shit is passing me by." I don't feel that tinge of guilt when I eat, except when paying the bill. See that's the other half of not being a baller. You eat and it's like, "Fuck I wish it was a little bit more affordable and I don't mean by like a dollar or two. I mean by like ten or fifteen dollars." That's kind of how I felt about Tertulia. Great food. Nice atmosphere. There was even a couple next to us that looked like they were in NYU and he looked about ready to finger her under the table. Kids. Fucking disgusting.... [Continue reading]

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January 18, 2012 at 12:35 am