LVHRD - FGHT NGHT

Friday Night Fight at the Lexington Armory



This was a relatively small LVHRD event with limited tickets. I was lucky to score some for the TickerHound team. They set up and raised platform area for the LVHRD crowd behind the ring - with Dewar's flowing of course. I do not recommend mixing lemonade and scotch. Ginger beer however, was delicious.
This Friday Night Fight consisted of amateur boxing and muy thai (kick boxing). The first few matches were kind of lame. The featured event and the main event was awesome. There were 2 fights with knocks outs - one with a kick to the head and one with a punch to the head. Totally insane!


Ritual before the match
They also play this muy thai music while the fight is going on.


Main Event



A lot more pictures here

Hi my name is George and I was a Dreamweaver user...

Yes, I'm embarrassed to admit that until this week, I used Dreamweaver as my development environment. What?! It was what I used when I first started doing web stuff and it did its job. I tried dabbling with the alternatives a couple of times: Textmate, Eclipse, VIM. There seems to be somewhat steep learning curve for Eclipse and VIM. Textmate had no real FTP support (I usually worked off the development server).
That all changed this week. We had a consultant buddy of ours, Lou, come in to do some heavy duty stuff. We developed (mostly him) a workflow to work on the site locally and commit changes to the development server (our version control is on another server). I finally had time to set up the site on my Mac locally. Lou was also helpful in getting me setup with Eclipse PDT. It's a lighter version of Eclipse made for PHP. The one I had tried previously was for Java.
The learning curve gets a lot less steep when someone is there to answer your questions.
By the way, I'm using XAMPP for the LAMP stuff on the mac.

My New Old Bike

I finally got a bike, after weeks of looking at every possible spot all over the city (friends, used bike shops, bike shops, craigslist). I found this one on Craigslist. It looked decent and the price was right ($170). I got in contact with Paul, the guy selling the bike. Apparently he had more bikes so I told him to bring one for Kingman too He came by 6:45AM on a Saturday to show me and Kingman bikes. It was a done deal for me after test riding it. Kingman wasn't so lucky.


Gary Fisher Big Sur - Paul was nice enough to swap out the mountain bike tires for road tires at no extra cost.


I took a ride down to Gim's to pick up my camera. Tonight happen to be what we Chinese refer to as "mid-autumn" or "moon festival" when the moon is the brightest.


The camera had a long exposure time on and I had to pick up my phone.

Babbo!

Babbo
110 Waverly Place, New York, NY



Check out the review here

Picture set here

Road Trip: Baltimore and Philadelphia

8/23/08: Baltimore - Camden Yards, Chaps Pit Beef, Crabs


We have arrived (2 hours too early for the tour. thanks for making us wake up at 5AM again, Gim)


Awesome brand new stadium


Early batting practice - Joe Girardi pitching, coaching on bunting.


Warehouse at Camden Yards - as long as the Empire state building is tall


Chaps pit beef - read about it here


Crabs at Obrycki's, read about it here

more pictures from Baltimore

8/24/08: Philadelphia - Chinatown, Batting Cages, Tony Luke's, Phillies Game

We opted for DimSum in Chinatown over breakfast at IHOP then went to the batting cages to kill some time before the Phillies/Dodgers game.


Fast


I bet their arms were sore the next day


Al reaching the rim in spaceball (giant trampoline + ball + basket = dunk). It is a lot harder than it looks.


Tony Luke's - how cheesesteak is done! read more here



Phillies vs. Dodgers


Tommy grabbed the fly ball that Tai almost caught during batting practice

China

Flight booked!
I'm going to visit the mainland... the big six... the motherland in November.

Meatballs

"that those very meatballs, the little, unassuming, ice-burned, microwavable afterthoughts with which you crown your tower of cardboard boxes in the Ikea checkout line were unquestionably better than the ones that I ate at Aquavit Café in Midtown"
(via Bittman's blog)

- I agree.

I'm famous

"george-

you're famous. your picture (as taken by mike) is on public display. we were walking to washington square park today and jen yelled out, "it's george zhao!" and sure enough your photo was in the window of the nyu student center. nice photo, mike.

-Josh"