Peter Tatara - June 13, 2014
So, who's behind Nerd York City? Nerd York City is the pet project of husband and wife team Peter Tatara and Petrina Cheng. Literally. Rather than getting a cat, they started this website. Peter's left-handed, a vegetarian, and his blood type is A. He's a fantastically unpublished writer who likes animation, cashews, penguins, pugs, Pomeranians, rice cookers, WWII, NPR, Netflix, the New York Rangers, Doctor Who, and Universal Health Care. He dislikes the poetry of Sylvia Plath. The high point of his life was meeting Alan Alda. Petrina likes knitting, ruffles, lace, fancy dresses, and the color black. She has a crippling addiction to macarons and drinks her body weight in tea every damn day. She is very likely a vampire from Rococo France.
Beyond the efforts of self-proclaimed nerd power couple Peter and Petrina, Nerd York City would not be possible without the support, guidance, and inspiration of Michelle Manning, Chris Cimi, Ali T. Kokmen, Jim Brooks, John Fuller, Asif Iqbal, David Bushman, Mike Negin, Mike Singer, Adam Ghahramani, Gina Gagliano, Anita Jacobs, Anna Fischer, Renee Gloger, Shannon Jowett, Newton Grant, David Tennant, Bibi Kam, Sonnya Paz, Megumi Sato, Andre Smith, Chris Troy, Carrie Wink, and Shauna from Sunnyside.
And an eternal huzzah and kudos to Clair Segal for coining the "Nerd York City" name as, before it, the working title for this website was fishcustard.com. (And, before the brilliance that was fishcustard.com, concepts included newgeekcity.com, newyorkgeekly.com, geekle.com, sciencemeat.com, nerdsushi.com, wasabinyc.com, umaminyc.com, hachikonyc.com, oringo.com, dairingo.com, donburinyc.com, sukiyakinyc.com, 42ndstreetsamurai.com, spacegandalf.com, daleksinmanhattan.com, geronimonyc.com, and nerdsherpa.com. It's amazing how bad most of these were, and it's even more amazing that most of 'em were taken. Seriously, someone's squatting on oringo.com, but nerdyorkcity.com was open?)
So, who's behind Nerd York City? Nerd York City is the pet project of husband and wife team Peter Tatara and Petrina Cheng. Literally. Rather than getting a cat, they started this website. Peter's left-handed, a vegetarian, and his blood type is A. He's a fantastically unpublished writer who likes animation, cashews, penguins, pugs, Pomeranians, rice cookers, WWII, NPR, Netflix, the New York Rangers, Doctor Who, and Universal Health Care. He dislikes the poetry of Sylvia Plath. The high point of his life was meeting Alan Alda. Petrina likes knitting, ruffles, lace, fancy dresses, and the color black. She has a crippling addiction to macarons and drinks her body weight in tea every damn day. She is very likely a vampire from Rococo France.
Beyond the efforts of self-proclaimed nerd power couple Peter and Petrina, Nerd York City would not be possible without the support, guidance, and inspiration of Michelle Manning, Chris Cimi, Ali T. Kokmen, Jim Brooks, John Fuller, Asif Iqbal, David Bushman, Mike Negin, Mike Singer, Adam Ghahramani, Gina Gagliano, Anita Jacobs, Anna Fischer, Renee Gloger, Shannon Jowett, Newton Grant, David Tennant, Bibi Kam, Sonnya Paz, Megumi Sato, Andre Smith, Chris Troy, Carrie Wink, and Shauna from Sunnyside.
And an eternal huzzah and kudos to Clair Segal for coining the "Nerd York City" name as, before it, the working title for this website was fishcustard.com. (And, before the brilliance that was fishcustard.com, concepts included newgeekcity.com, newyorkgeekly.com, geekle.com, sciencemeat.com, nerdsushi.com, wasabinyc.com, umaminyc.com, hachikonyc.com, oringo.com, dairingo.com, donburinyc.com, sukiyakinyc.com, 42ndstreetsamurai.com, spacegandalf.com, daleksinmanhattan.com, geronimonyc.com, and nerdsherpa.com. It's amazing how bad most of these were, and it's even more amazing that most of 'em were taken. Seriously, someone's squatting on oringo.com, but nerdyorkcity.com was open?)