new restaurants/stores on vanderbilt?

ltjbukem

today i saw this restaurant/lounge type of place called nalani on pacific/vanderbilt and then on the northeast corner of dean and vanderbilt was this storefront that was under construction. the windows had that white soap on it so you couldn't see what was going on. anybody know anything?

ltjbukem

Subject: found website

i see they have a sparse website:

www.nalanicafe.com

anybody know?

daveb

Subject: Re: found website

ltjbukem wrote: i see they have a sparse website:

www.nalanicafe.com

anybody know?

AIEEE...MY EYES...MY EARS...JESUS CHRIST NOOOOO!

That's some seriously bad web design. :shock: :shock: :shock:

dailyheights

I'm trying to sign up for the mailing list... it looks like they are trying to induct me into an e-mail marketing campaign or something. It's automatically selecting "Neo-Soul R&B and Hip-Hop" as my "choice crowd."

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daveb

Yeah, I think they've already lost my business on geek principles alone.

I feel dirty now. :x

emily

Wow, I LOVE websites that open with noisy music while I'm at work, and then crash my browser so that one measure of the noisy music loops continuously while I try to ctrl-alt-delete the hell outta there! That'll definitely win over the young professionals.

I wonder what a "Fight Party" would entail.

daveb

All I know is that my coworkers now suspect me to be a closet Beyonce fan and that is just sooooo not punk rock.

joshb

The one on Dean is called Blu Lounge. A tad more upscale-ish, me thinks. Talked to the owner a month ago. Said that construction snafus, owner problems, etc. pushed back the opening like, six months. Supposed to have opened up July 15 but, well, we'll see.

daveb

JoshB wrote: The one on Dean is called Blu Lounge. A tad more upscale-ish, me thinks. Talked to the owner a month ago. Said that construction snafus, owner problems, etc. pushed back the opening like, six months. Supposed to have opened up July 15 but, well, we'll see.

Huh, there's a place in Williamsburg by that name that used to have an awsome karaoke night, hosted by a 6'5" transvestite with a wicked deep voice.

joshb

Sorry, the name is Indigo Blu. Dropped the modifier. You'll have to get trannie kicks elsewhere.

daveb

JoshB wrote: Sorry, the name is Indigo Blu. Dropped the modifier. You'll have to get trannie kicks elsewhere.

What a pisser. So damn hard to find good tranny karaoke these days. 8)

dailyheights

EmilyM wrote: Wow, I LOVE websites that open with noisy music while I'm at work, and then crash my browser so that one measure of the noisy music loops continuously while I try to ctrl-alt-delete the hell outta there! That'll definitely win over the young professionals.

Ha!! I had my speakers turned down. Hilarious. Reminds me of my all-time favorite quote about bad website design:

"If I had wanted your website to make a noise, I would have licked my finger and rubbed the screen."

emily

Discussion of the worst webpage in this history of the world, which is here. Is it a joke, or just spectacularly bad? No one knows.

By the way, I listen to music at my desk all the time; I just try to keep it quiet. After all, nothing says "I take my job seriously" like listening to the Beach Boys at your desk on a Monday morning in July.

daveb

EmilyM wrote: Discussion of the worst webpage in this history of the world, which is here. Is it a joke, or just spectacularly bad? No one knows.

By the way, I listen to music at my desk all the time; I just try to keep it quiet. After all, nothing says "I take my job seriously" like listening to the Beach Boys at your desk on a Monday morning in July.

My bet is that it's for real. I used to know people like that when I was freelancing. Dinosaurs that live under a rock. I just tried validating their code...scary. I'm tempted to send them a spank-down email for being such morons and/or possibly letting their ISP know they're abusing copywritten images. Eh...but I'm lazy.

emily

The best part--maybe they took it down though--is where they claim they've been designing websites since 1983. WOW! :shock: :roll: :idea:

daveb

EmilyM wrote: The best part--maybe they took it down though--is where they claim they've been designing websites since 1983. WOW! :shock: :roll: :idea:

It's still there. Award winning web design since 1983. Seriously, these guys are olde skool professhunuls. Take a step back and learn something! 8)

emily

They also, apparently, own a time machine. That's pretty kewl!

daveb

EmilyM wrote: They also, apparently, own a time machine. That's pretty kewl!

Not to mention the ability to magically create a graphically capable internet against all odds. There wasn't even such a thing as a web browser back then...or even html. Talk about true grit! 8)

ana.log

i looked up this domain in WhoIs and the administrative contact is affiliated with a company called bmkdesigns.com, which actually has a pretty normal looking website. Weird.

emily

That makes me think it's a joke, like our fake wedding website. Warning: has terrible MIDI file music.

anonymous

JoshB, is that place in Williamsburg the same one as the Blue Lady Lounge, or are there two places with similar-sounding names? Just curious.

joshb

Similar-sounding names, me thinks. Blu Lounge was (or is, for all I know) on N. 8th Blue Lady is over on Metropolitan.