![]() Okay, so the effect of the body spray is so great that places you sit are cleaner and prettier. One of the ads that I understood was a dirty couch with a clean spot where someone had clearly been sitting. ![]() Mostly we discussed how terrible they were. All of the ads had the tag line “The New Longer Lasting Axe effect.” The woman sitting next to me was equally perplexed about the ads and we started up a conversation about them. On the T this morning, I was surrounded by advertisements for Axe body spray, two of which I understood and one of which I didn’t. Iowa and North Dakota don’t even have sports teams. At least that one’s a fair fight and involves sports rivalries. * Even more than Iowa, we like mocking Wisconsin the most. (And I do realize the irony of me saying that.) But at least they tend to stay in the state. In all fairness, Minnesota farm towns, such as Clara City, don’t do very well at keeping their young people around either. “Iowa would be a great place to live, if only the air and the water weren’t polluted and you could be sure you wouldn’t find yourself living next to 10,000 sows in a hog prison.” “Another Iowan, when asked what the state needed to keep its young people, said, ‘An ocean would help.’ This is the kind of big thinking Iowa has always been famous for.” The article included such choice Iowa bashing lines as: “Keeping Iowa’s Young Folks at Home After They’ve Seen Minnesota” And so, I was extremely amused to run across this headline in the New York Times: My question is, where was this guy when I was looking for a job last summer? Also, I never did finish the crossword.Īs regular listeners of Prairie Home Companion are aware, one of the few things Minnesotans like to do more than mock North Dakota is mock Iowa.* Even our governors have been known to mock Des Moines. “I figured it was worth striking up a conversation.” “I saw the speedy crossword solving and the brass rat,” he said. The man then gave me his card, the guest username and password to the company’s website, told me to check it out and said that if I was interested in working for them, I should send him my resume. He also wrote one of the earliest natural language parsers back in the late 60s and their company would be developing similar knowledge representation and parsing algorithms. One of the board members is a Stanford professor – the PhD advisor to the guys who took time off to found Google. His (London based) company, he explained, was starting a Boston branch and looking for developers. When I responded natural language processing, he immediately perked up. Eventually, I mentioned that I was going to grad school in computer science in the fall and he asked me what area. He then proceeded to ask me what I do and I treaded lightly, not quite sure who this random stranger was. I was a little surprised, and slightly annoyed that he broke my rhythm, but I was polite and told him it was approximately the same level of difficulty, but that I really preferred the Times. ![]() However, this morning, a fellow passenger interrupted me at about Harvard to ask how the Metro crossword compared to the Boston Globe crossword. I generally try to pace myself to finish it by the time I hit Central, three stops away from Davis. Stay tuned for more details as they become available.This morning, like most mornings, I grabbed a copy of the Metro and headed straight for the crossword puzzle. No word yet on whether BR Guest has another restaurant planned for the space. And his multimillion-dollar gamble seems to be paying off. Hanson, a savvy restaurateur with a deep understanding of his audience, has opened a restaurant that is spectacular without being expensive, the sort of place that can attract everybody from young families to people on the prowl. Here's what Ruth Reichl had to say about Ruby Foo's back in 1999:ĭespite its splendor, Ruby Foo's is a very careful restaurant. Hanson's replacement, James Gersten, also abruptly left the group a few weeks ago. Over the last few years, BR Guest extinguished Wildwood and Primehouse, while turning part of Blue Fin into a new location of Dos Caminos. ![]() Hanson split from the group that he founded in 2013. But the first restaurant closed along with its sister establishment Fiamma back in 2009. Steve Hanson's restaurant started on the Upper West Side and spawned a Times Square spinoff. We thank you for your loyal patronage." Also, the sign is now hanging in the window: The website has vanished and the phone line now plays a message: "We are no longer in business. 300-seat Pan-Asian restaurant Ruby Foo's closed at the end of last week without any warning.
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