2007.05.16.1217 :: new york state of mind

new york is, as expected, totally awesome so far. i found an apartment in williamsburg with some really cool people, which is great. it's a four bedroom with three people and we're building a music studio in the extra room, so that's perfect. as hipster as it is, i really do love the neighborhood too. almost all of my friends are within walking distance and i'm surrounded by great bars and restaurants.

on the restaurant tip, i've decided to revive my restaurant guide, though this time with a slant more toward "food i think is awesome" instead of vegan treats, since i'm not vegan anymore. i ended up just copying the database from the vegan one, so i still need to go through and clean it up so it's not so vegan-centric.

i've been thinking about bringing back my events page, merging it with the restaurant listings and turning it into a sort of citysearch with more editorial control. more of a "these are good" type approach than an exhaustive list.

speaking of coding for websites, the new job is awesome as well. as weird as it is to be back at a day job, i really like the people i work with and the work is actually interesting, so there's not much more i could ask for. it's also kind of cool to be editing a page and realize that that page alone accounts for 1% of the entire internet.