An off-the-record evening

Some times in the summer times you just want to kick off your shoes, relax and goof off. Well, in spite of some mediocre events this week, cyber-columnist extraordinaire Gina Larson and I decided to forgo the schmooze fest and just carouse around ourselves. Our adventure started at Bryant Park Grill, which always has a major scene. Of course it doesn't take long before we run into someone we know and we began sipping our summery cocktails with Flooz.com founder Robert Levitan.

Now many of you may know Mr. Levitan for his impressive roster of companies he's co-founded and grown (iVillage, Flooz). But not many of you may know that this man's sincere charm and wit has an incredibly useful humorous trivia streak within as well. For instance, Gina and I learned and can now also wow cocktail partiers with the origins of such standard words like: "Dixieland," "Okay," "hooker," "limey" and "India Pale Ale." We did learn a bit more news too, but respecting the request, our lips are sealed--and you'll be reading about it in another major publication soon anyway.