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Internet Week Opening Day

2010 Internet Week Opening Cocktail Reception
Photo by Kelly Samardak, MediaPost’s Just An Online Minute.

I will not promise recaps of everyday of Internet Week, but yesterday was pretty good. I got to Metropolitan Pavilion yesterday to see Yahoo Provoke. It was cool to listen to Ze Frank’s presentation. He has a lot of projects,and it made me feel better about juggling so many things at once. All of his stuff seems to revolve around PLAY.

Afterwards, there was a panel that included Bre Pettis, Seth Goldstein, Matthew Szymczyk and Nick Parish. Their panel, “Pixels That Provote Emotion” talked about humans, QR codes and robots. Bre said something I really like-“Intellectual property is dead”. He also encourages us all to SHARE online.

Later, I hung out at the opening night reception. I talked to Michelle Shildkret, Dennis Crowley, Kelly Samardak, Jose Mejia and David Dundas.

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Eating My Way Though The Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial Day Weekend Food

Spent Memorial Day weekend mostly in Northern Virginia with an afternoon in our nation’s capital. My boyfriend’s mom and aunt went on a shopping spree at a farmer’s market in Occoquan, Virginia. Swiss chard, green beans, strawberries, carrots, radishes, lettuce and potatoes was just some of the stuff they got.  They also bought blackberry pie and lemon cheese pie from Mom’s Apple Pie. Both pies were delicious.

Sunday, we went to the Woodrow Wilson House which is the only presidential museum in DC. The house is pretty big and filled with historical artifacts. Then we had pizza at Pizzeria Paradiso. Monday, I ate breakfast at Vienna Inn which is famous for its chili dogs. I didn’t have chili dogs because it was 9:30AM.

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Forget The Fear Worry About The Addiction

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On Sunday, I overheard this young musician tell a fellow musician about the book Life Doesn’t Frighten Me.   I smiled to myself as I remember the book by Maya Angelou and illustrated by Basquiat. It is a children’s book, but I think I need a copy.

In some many ways, I am fearless. I am gregarious at parties. I meet a lot of people. I have been on TV, done a wee bit of stand-up  and burlesque.  Lately, I get fearful over silly things like opening emails from people that require action from me. I am fearful of being away from email for more two hours. I fear that I am not doing all I can with my blogs.

Yesterday, I went to the TDBank Flip event at the Trapeze School.  It was fun and scary. There was no way I could have climbed up the shaky ladder and fly into the air.  I would have had a panic attack. I got on the trampoline and that was a little scary for me. I am a not of fan of shaky ground. I’m glad I went to try. It was good to see other people try and succeed, and it was also good to see people try and decide not to do trapeze.  It’s good to know yourself well enough to know what you can or cannot do.

Anyway, I don’t usually do the personal introspective stuff because it’s not what I do.  One thing I am not afraid of is what people think of me. I may not respond to every tweet, facebook message or email. If that bothers people, then so be it. I can’t talk all day online and get stuff done.

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Hester Street Fair

lamb bunnychow

Sunday, The Boy and I went to the Hester Street Fair which open earlier this month. There are some nice jewelry, and accessories vendors, but we came for the food. I talked to DJO from Mama O’s and he gave us some kimchi salsa. Luke’s Lobster was there, and we had to share a lobster roll an a shrimp roll. Also, we ate lamb bunnychow from South African restaurant Bunny Chow.

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We ran into our friend John who biked down to Hester Street because he heard there would be pie, but there was none. Also, I  thought that DB Sweets would be there as well selling cupcakes.  Maybe it was an off weekend or maybe the vendors rotate.  I will visit again in the next couple of weeks to try Malbon Brothers pulled pork.

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Red Hook Mercado

Red Hook Mercado

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I have been hearing about the Red Hook Ball Fields vendors for years, but I actually never tasted the deliciousness until Saturday. I made the trek down to Red Hook Mercado, a new food and other stuff market in Red Hook. It is on Van Brunt Street and close to other Red Hook landmarks including Hope and Anchor and Baked. The Boy and I ate tacos, papusas from Soler and chalupas. Plus we ate Robicellis‘ cupcakes (Tres Leches and Bea Arthur) for dessert. Muy Bueno!

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