Latest Side Bar

see at right...people i think are interesting for some reason or another.
first entry: oliver sacks
reading one of his books at the moment An Anthropologist on Mars
http://www.oliversacks.com/

2C Shakeup! More new room mates :-)

Recently for various reasons including a marriage :) (see earlier post) I had to find two new room mates to fill my little apartment. And I am happy to report they are both wonderful! We had a bit of party with our neighbors downstairs on a Wednesday night! it was great. Lots of good food as one of my new room mates is a chef and so is one of the guys that lives downstairs.

Province..late night...late food

One of the highlights (if you can call it that ) of late nights of work in Manhattan is what to eat for dinner :) there are so many choices and everything is good and not necessarily even that expensive (though not a concern since it's on the office). This is one thing I really missed when I was living in London as most places closed there relatively early and were not big on delivery much less variety...at least in the area our office is in.

One of our latest discoveries is this great little Chinese place called Province that serves the most tasty small sandwiches. They consist of a few choices of fillings (Shiitake mushroom is my favorite) inside a doughy steamed bread of northern China known as Mantou.

if your ever in nyc heading south of Chinatown towards the Tribeca area this is a must eat and it will only set you back $5.

http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/Province/

a few pix from my weekend down in houston

this past weekend while in houston i got to do a lot of hanging out with friends and family. i had the chance to meet up with my friend, fernando, shown with me here and to go to a great art/street festival with my family in the old historic heights district of houston. ahh and not to be left out was all the fun i had with my sister's kiddos, however at the moment I don't have my pix of them downloaded just a few that fernando sent me from his camera, so more later on the kids :)

(yes and a bit of down time as well to play with my blog template, not sure about this red text and dark background but it's a new look i am trying :P)

"ego free-for-all"....architects talking about architects

a great article from a co-worker regarding recent trends in architecture

However, I personally resent, for example, two billion dollars being spent on a subway station in New York City that looks like a bird.
I have no idea why a subway station should either look like a bird or cost two billion dollars," he said
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0801/design_1-2.html