http://www.monzy.com Monzy's web playground Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:06:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dan and John, in high school and today. 10 years later, and we are pimper than ever. My first foray into recording rap songs was back in 1995. I was a sophomore in high school, and my buddies Chris and John and I got it into our heads that we ... http://www.monzy.com/did-i-mention-that-i-spit-the-dopest-rhymes/ Last year at Thanksgiving, we had some amazing Brussels sprouts in mustard sauce, and I emailed my mom this year to ask her if the Brussels sprouts would be making a repeat appearance. She confirmed that our Thanksgiving menu would indeed include Brussels sprouts, and I replied with a heartfelt ... http://www.monzy.com/hooray-brussels-sprouts/ For the past year I've divided my time between northern California and New York City, and people sometimes ask me how I would characterize the difference between the two places. I usually talk about how intense I find New York compared to the Bay Area, how everything in Manhattan is ... http://www.monzy.com/it-is-a-real-meat/ I spent last summer working for Google at their New York office. Working at Google is great because it's sort like being in school, in that you're surrounded by lots of smart, creative people who are doing interesting projects... but also the pay is much better, and they give ... http://www.monzy.com/science-fridays-at-google/ I'm currently sitting at a small desk on the second floor of this building with my laptop plugged into a 10Mbps hub, surrounded by teenage Fassis using MSN Messenger to chat with their friends in a mixture of French, Moroccan Arabic, and emoticons. Fes is a city full of striking contrasts ... http://www.monzy.com/what-you-gon-do-with-all-that-donkey/ I have to admit that when I released my debut rap single about a year ago, I never considered "nerdcore" a legitimate musical genre. I may have presented it as such in my blog post, in which I linked to other nerdy rappers whom I admired, but this was ... http://www.monzy.com/already-tried-a-sigquit/ Perhaps you saw the Internet meme about vodka filtration that was circulating last year. An enterprising group of young "scientists" purchased a bottle of extremely cheap vodka and a Brita filtration pitcher, and after pouring the vodka through the charcoal filter several times, they claimed that the result was ... http://www.monzy.com/vodka-research/ Tokyo is an extraordinarily clean city, a fact that is all the more striking once you realize that there are no public trash cans anywhere. In Manhattan, there is a trash can on nearly every corner, but it is evident from the waste littering the streets of Midtown that ... http://www.monzy.com/fukuro-irimasen/  The Japanese version of the Nintendo DS comes in colors not available in the US (turquoise blue, candy pink, and graphite black), so naturally I needed to buy one while I had the opportunity. Then I needed some games to play on it, but I had to make sure ... http://www.monzy.com/a-selection-of-splendid-shirts/ Tokyu Hands is my second favorite Tokyo retail chain. It is narrowly edged out of first place by Don Quixote, which offers a comparably dazzling assortment of bizarre and outlandish merchandise, but is slightly cheaper and has a cuter logo. Though I didn't consider this a factor in ... http://www.monzy.com/tokyo-container-quartet/