April 2004 Entries
My coworkers and I are among the top erotic photo hunt players in New York City. Erotic Photo Hunt is a game consisting of two nearly identical images of the cheesiest semi-nude "models" you can imagine set in "classy" backdrops where you must identify five differences in a ever-shortening time period. We took the step of dividing up the team into specialties - hair, apparel, background, with secondary targets of footwear, breasts, pool balls. The idea of canvassing the city (Manhattan only) and claiming high score spot domination has been discussed. As has attempting to find an expensibile angle...
See Hollie's review for her take. So the skeptics ruled and only Hollie and I made it to the Marquee theater last night. Turns out the experience was great and all y'all were wrong to doubt the Tinkle. The whole thing is actually run by PSNBC a "performance and development lab". Essentially it is a workshop for comedians to hone their jokes and showcase their stuff to the NBC 'suits' in attendance. A constant distraction for us in the audience trying to sniff out the folks getting paid to be there. The place was tiny tiny. Maybe seating for 23...
The CPU for the Xbox 2 is rumored to be designed to be a processor that can decode and execute instructions in Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) while at the same time being able to run x86 code, to remain compatible with Xbox.Of course this is only a rumor and we've heard a few bad ones already, but still. One of my early tasks at my current company was to give a presentation on .NET, where it came from, where its going etc. I had a slide that was all about one of the hidden benefits of .NET was that it...
I really really don't like web ads. Fortunately I haven't seen one in almost a year (almost). I use a program called Admuncher. It blocks all web ads including inline and popups. A regular banner ad gets replaced by a simple [munched] text link. It costs $25 but has saved me from viewing 162,555 ads and 1.269 Gigabytes of bandwidth.It is fast, lightweight and stays out of the way. Recommended.
The Village Voice 4th AnnualSIREN MUSIC FESTIVALat Coney Island Saturday, July 17, 2004
Death Cab For Cutie, Blonde Redhead, Har Mar Superstar, TV On The Radio, Constantines, The Fiery Furnaces,The Fever, The Ponys,Your Enemies Friends and many more scheduled to perform
Some favorites from how not to write metaphorsHis thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer.He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with vegetable soup.The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
[via MetaFilter]
This is what we do to looters (3Mb windows media video) This clip comes from Frontline, showing a US tank crew confronting some Iraqis taking some wood. I'll give a quick preview: it's probably not the best way for Americans to build US-Iraq relations. [via rc3]
Last summer I frequented a comedy show called Tinkle down in the lower east side. It was a great time compounded by the fact that you just couldn't help feeling Very New York with twist of hipster. I signed up for their mailing list where they send out info about comedy shows that might appeal to the Tinkle crowd. They just sent one featuring Nick Swardson and Greg Behrendt. This is Nick Swardson, some of you may have seen his mucho funny Comedy Central special. Show is $5, Tuesday, April 27th at the Marquee (212-664-5892)356 bowery (between great jones and e. 4th)8pm ,...
Reading about the hot abercrombie chick hoax I find that they use the Gender Genie to speculate that the author is male. Of course the next thing I do is check my own writing.
Female Score: 273Male Score: 360
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
Whew!
For the record, HollieG is a woman:
Female Score: 399Male Score: 253
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
double whew!
Since my fantastic yet controversial local Organic market (Healthy Pleasures) left my neighborhood apparently due to a lease dispute I've been forced to explore other grocery outlets. Hollie recommended Freshdirect and I broke down and tried it. Here is the text of my feedback to customer service: 1) The mixed fruit salad is not very fresh. This is Manhattan, I can get fresh fruit seven different ways on every street corner so the standard is high. I would prefer to get higher quality, ideally organic mixed fruit selections. Throw some surprises too. Some papaya, kiwis perhaps, mangos maybe, more berries...
SonicVision is a groundbreaking digitally animated alternative music show. SonicVision takes audiences in the Adler Planetarium's StarRider Theater on a mind-warping musical roller-coaster ride through a fantastical dreamspace. With a mix by Moby ... the music ignites this one-of-a-kind computer-generated musical and visual experience, which uses next-generation digital technology to illuminate the Planetarium's dome with a dazzling morphing of colorful visions. Radiohead - Everything in its right place Audioslave - Cochise U2 - Elevation Moby - Into the Blue Stereolab - Metronomic Underground White Zombie - Blood, Milk & Sky Goldfrapp - Utopia Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentleman We are Floating in...
Philo says: 1) Grab the nearest book. 2) Open the book to page 23. 3) Find the fifth sentence. 4) Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.He wanted to tell her that he thought about her all the time, and in his thoughts he was older and could drive a car and take her to places where she smiled at him a lot and they ate a picnic lunch and everything he said made her laugh and expose that tooth and touch his face with her palm. From Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
NIKETOWN Run for the ParksYear: 2004 Distance: 4.0 Miles, 6.4 Kilometers Date/Time: April 18, 2004, 10:00 am Sponsor: Niketown Location: Central Park, NYC Weather: 70 deg., 49% humidity, sunny.
Last Name
First Name
Sex/Age
Bib
City
State
OverallPlace
GenderPlace
AgePlace
NetTime
Pace/Mile
HENDERSON
COREY
M28
4309
NEW YORK
NY
2067
1514
309
31:14
7:48
I didn't quite make my goal of < 30 minutes, but I am pretty confident that had I not gotten tied up in traffic at the beginning I woulda made it. Next time I'm going to negotiate a spot closer to the start.
Congrats to Hollie on her performance.
So this will be a recurring theme on coreyh.com.
An application I use that other people might like...
Lookout for Outlook. Basically think of it as Google for email. It will do a full text index of your entire mailbox and provide search results in less than a second in most cases. This app has saved me tons of time over the last month I've been running it. I don't obsess over folder organization the way I used to; I just know that I'll be able to search for it and find it later.
Note, this is a free-for-now app...
There is rampant speculation as to who is the person behind this blog penned by the pseudonyms Rance and/or Captainhoof. Best guesses include Jim Carrey and Owen Wilson. http://captainhoof.tripod.com/blog/Choice excerpt:I Can Do No Wrong, And That's Not RightTake this Meeting: Me: I’ve got this idea for a movie. You’ve got this guy, a robber. He and the First Lady fall in love at first sight when he’s holding up the branch in DC where she banks, and they go on the lam together, like “The Fugitive.” Nathan Lane is the guy. JEssica Simpson...
Um yeah, so MetaFilter tells me this Thursday (April 15) is National High Five day and per usual go and google-image a satirical photo of some high-fivers and this is what I find: Perfect right? Then I see the url - blackpeopleloveus.com. Oh yes. So everyone remember to high-five everyone you see on Thursday.
PENCILED INby Mike ToppA psychotherapist in New York told me a new patient came to visit her. He said, "I just want to see you for eight sessions. I want to clear this up quickly." "What seems to be the problem," she asked. He replied, "I have never been able to sustain a long-term relationship." º º º [via NYC based Really Small Talk by Dan Kennedy who wrote the funny book Loser Goes First]
From a great article from Epicurious about how to tip/bribe your way into the most exclusive restaurants: I was clearly in another league of exclusivity. Lay eaters wouldn't dream of trying to enter a restaurant where if you order verbena tea they bring the plant to your table and a white-gloved waiter snips the leaves with silver shears.I fully admit to falling big-time for this type of novelty. It actually ties in to the whole Purple Cow thing that Seth Godin talks about.
Reading Rory @ Neopoleon.com and he recounts a story of watching U2 play a crappy show and follows it with this: But I like that. I remember walking away from the show thinking that I had just watched some of my heroes really biff it, and, lord, it was reassuring. There's nothing worse than believing that the people you look up to are perfect.That's why it was nice for me to learn that:- Bobby Fischer is totally nuts- Audrey Hepburn wasn't the most loyal of significant others- Even Gates' billions couldn't stop that pie- Carl Sagan, brilliant as all-get-out, was uncannily close...
[via Scoble's experimental feed + Dylan Greene]Some interesting Apprentice info:The board room is on the same floor as their swank apartment. The elevators outside the board room are fake and just lead to another hallway. The young woman who rented the apartment Troy's team renovated already obtained a lease before the show decided to even renovate that apartment. She received $2000 in free furniture her involvement, and knew that no matter what rent she negotiated for, she'd be paying her original rent. That apartment was empty because the previous occupant jumped out the window a month earlier.More details: Elevator Rides...
I don't know what it is about child-like drawings with dirty phrases that I find so funny... but I do... very much. [via Natalie Dee]
Your Name in Nudes
[via Beyond the Beyond - Bruce Sterling]
I have been concerned with this topic for a while now, but I couldn't really put a coherent theory behind it all.
Two Incomes Equals...Bankruptcy? Following up on the price of real estate from yesterday's links is this book. Professor Elizabeth Warren, leading bankruptcy expert, says that rising fixed costs, and not consumption, lead to bankruptcy. Considering that it's $830,000 for the average home, is she on to something here?It is a dangerous situation indeed when neither home buyers nor the institutions that finance them are concerned with the ultimate price being paid for the housing asset.Many people are getting...
Larry O'Brien has a rant about a SCUBA dive computer failing on him and makes a great point about where we are in the history of computing.
Here's my point: computers suck. They're unreliable, expensive, difficult to use, incomprehensible when functioning, and utterly useless when they fail. I've never had a pressure gauge fail on me. I've never had a depth gauge fail on me. Such things happen with analog gauges, but I wager the rate of computer failures to analog failures is hundreds if not thousands to one. Every time someone talks about lack of innovation or "Where are...
Which Family Guy character are you?[via Graeme Foster - another Brian]
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