New Midtown eats

This week I finally got around to trying a couple of new joints that have opened recently in Midtown.  Both are pretty good additions to the local scene…

Duchess of Flanders is a new “homemade take out” operation that specializes in fresh, local food for lunch and dinner.  The menu changes weekly, but usually includes sandwiches, soups, pastries, etc. It’s on West 39th Street at Genessee, across from Starbucks in the former Nutty Girl building.

El Rancho Mexican is another place focusing on fast food with fresh local ingredients.  It’s kindof setup like a Subway, but with yummy Mexican food. Plus, it’s open late.  2:00 a.m. during the week and 4:00 a.m. on the weekends.  El Rancho is on Mill Street in Westport, in the old Pyramid Pizza spot behind Chilli’s.

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Saddlebacking

That awful wingnut “pastor” Rick Warren has finally received the Santorum treatment.  A church called Saddleback was just asking for it.

Saddlebacking: the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities. see also www.saddlebacking.com

And if you don’t get the Santorum reference, you can Google that yourself.

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The new whitehouse.gov

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My Year in Cities: 2008

Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco, CA
Portland, OR
Seattle, WA
Vancouver, BC
Washington, DC
Chicago, IL
Jefferson City, MO (2)
St. Louis, MO
Rolla, MO
Galena, MO
Lake Ahquabi, IA

Rules: Must stay over at least one night. Asterisk indicates multiple trips to the same city. Where have you been this year?

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Paying attention, the new secret of success

Via Lifehacker, the argument that in the modern online age, the ability to focus is the new work ethic.  Distractions like Twitter, blogs, social  networks, online news, etc. all compete for our attention.  The ability to tune them out and get some work done is the new definition of “hard work” – something very different from what our parents thought of as “hard work.”

Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control, by Mike Egan

As I type this I have six tabs open in Firefox, Mail.app in the background, Twitterfic in my menu bar, Adium logged onto five IM networks, and iTunes downloading three podcasts. I know a lot of programmers and such who pride ourselves on being about work on mutiple projects at the same time, but perhaps we also need to be sure we can get focus in on something without any distractions .

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