What's Worse?

Looking like a Guy Who Memorizes Area Codes in front of your co-workers because you knew what area 619 covered?
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Admitting to your co-workers that you don't memorize area codes; you just know where 619 is because it's a professional wrestler's finishing move and he's from the San Diego area?

(Rey Mysterio, Jr., for the record)

A truly immersive gaming experience

Feels appropriate that I would forget to charge the GameCube controller, so I had to play Chibi-Robo plugged in.

Ranked Choice is a Good Idea

And here's mine for the primary, since no one asked: 

1. Myrie
Universal after-school programs are a great idea, and he seems like a genuinely good person
2. Lander
For anyone who's looking for "leadership experience"--also saw him this winter at the Brooklyn Public Library, at a talk about labor, so that's another plus
3. Mamdani
Probably getting the most votes otherwise, and free buses is a good idea, but the thing I like about ranked choice is that you don't have to vote for the one person you think will most likely win--you can put the candidates you like the most first and then get to the "favorites" lower down
4. Blake
Legendary first debate performance; sorely missed in the second
5. A. Adams
There's something to be said about serving as City Council Speaker, but I'm not a fan of getting big funding from delivery app PACs
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97. Getting hit by a newly speed-reduced electric Citi Bike
98. Tilson
99. Getting hit by a newly free-fare MTA bus
100. Cuomo

Had a Real Costanza Moment at Strand

But I swear I bought the book first! See look it's hot the little bookmark up there!!

P.S. One of the last things I did before the pandemic broke out--stretching "last things" to mean "around a month before"--was go to Coogan's after working the Millrose Games.

I do remember Elle Purrier bringing the Wanamaker Mile trophy into the bar, although, no word on if she or any other pros enjoyed any cold ones out of it (I wasn't about to peer over to where the pros were hanging out--gotta keep the stagehands separate from the stars).

Also bought this one, because I was a big The Hush Sound fan in high school and college (and then a Gold Motel fan, and then a Springtime Carnivore fan).

Didn't Give a Full Ocular Pat down, and It Cost Me

Today at lunch I walked past a guy wearing a T-shirt that said:

Two things I'll always be...honest and in some Nikes

But by the time I had read the shirt, it was too late to look all the way down to tell if he was a liar.