I’m going to continue to post my restaurant reviews both on Yelp and here. This week, “the dinner club” checked out Pezzella’s on El Camino in Sunnyvale. Here’s my review: My colleague John C. tells me my Yelp reviews are too long to read, so I’ll keep this one relatively short. Pezzella’s is a great [...]
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Restaurant Review: Junnoon (Palo Alto)
(Photo courtesy Yelp user Anthony M.) My brother and sister would like to see my Yelp reviews here, so I shall oblige. I have a standing weekly dinner with three buddies. Each week, one person picks and pays. This week, Jason H. picked Junnoon in Palo Alto. Here’s my Yelp review of it: Tasty, although [...]
Wow. The iMac Delights.
It’s here! Just two days ago I wrote that I was making the switch from PC to Mac. I had ordered an iMac Monday through my friend Lisa and was told to expect it “by the end of the month.” Aiyah! I require instant gratification! Imagine my delight when Lisa called me this afternoon to [...]
Book Review: Mindless Eating
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink, Ph.D., is a fantastic book for anyone trying to control his or her diet. The book does not prescribe a particular diet — you won’t find a single menu or food choice in it. Rather, the book uses anecdotes and studies to demonstrate [...]
Book Review: The No Asshole Rule: Building A Civilized Workplace And Surviving One That Isn’t
Despite the hype around this book, in part generated by Guy Kawasaki’s ~five blog posts on it, and despite my desire to be a deferential and gracious host (Professor Robert Sutton, Ph.D., the author, spoke at eBay), I must admit my disappointment with it. Perhaps my expectations were too high because Kawasaki hyped up the [...]
Movie Review: 300
I’d heard that critics had panned 300, so my expectations for it were low. It turns out that 300 gets 61% fresh tomatoes — not so bad — on Rotten Tomatoes, and that I found the movie perfectly entertaining. Sometimes dork that I am, I’ve read a number of Frank Miller comic books, including the [...]
Yelp Me If You Can
I must have too much free time on my hands (don’t tell my boss), because lately I’ve been doing a bit more business reading and checking out Web sites I’ve wanted to explore. Yelp isn’t new news, but two of my former eBay colleagues are leading operations and marketing there, so it’s long past time [...]
Product Review Update: Further Jawbone Drawbacks
Did I write too soon? To my list of Jawbone drawbacks, add questionable durability and unresponsive customer support. Having had difficulties with the fit of the Jawbone, I foolishly dispensed with the ear loop; the Jawbone remained attached to my ear only through the snugness of the ear bud in my ear canal. Alas, while [...]
Product Review: Blackberry Pearl
Apparently, I am on a geek gadget spending spree. Enter Research in Motion’s Blackberry 8100c Pearl. The Pearl has been reviewed by others ad nauseam, so I will provide only brief (for me) impressions here. The size and form factor finally bring a Blackberry device on par with other mobile phones. The marketing collateral refers [...]
Book Review: The Biggest Game in Town
I should have known by the 1983 initial publication date, but when I first picked up A. Alvarez’s The Biggest Game in Town, I mistakenly thought it was about the “Big Game,” the high-stakes, typically $4000/$8000 bet limit poker game that takes place semi-regularly among the best players in the world in Bobby’s Room of [...]
