August 2005 Entries
We had our fantasy football draft yesterday. I didn’t really get into the proper mental state/flow until the end when it didn’t matter as much.
I just christened my team “Whitney’s” “Hell to the naw”.
See over on this site Four Four, he pretty much does a detailed rundown of the Whitney and Bobby Brown reality show every week and while I haven’t actually seen the show, I’ve grown to love it via a serial blog recounting it for me.
Anyway, I guess Whitney says “Hell to the no” or “Hell to the naw” all the time, which is terrific...
You know for all the people in line, I would have expected more friends to have heard about it.
I’m speaking of Shake Shack. Located in the Southeast corner of Madison Square Park (23rd & Madison), Manhattan.
Since my girlfriend Emily picked up a bizzare physical affliction to hamburgers (not steak, not turkey burgers), suspiciously around the time we visited India and she is out of town this week, I decided that I could use the opportunity to try out the hamburger place I had read on A Hamburger Today as being better than In-N-Out, which we all know is impossible, but...
I’m working on my fantasy football draft in Excel. Part of the job is sourcing material by copying and pasting from web sites. But since the sites have links to the players detailed info, it makes working with them in Excel difficult. I needed to remove a bunch of hyperlinks at once and the stuff I tried didn’t work. Not one to ask for directions I reluctantly asked Excel’s help to point me right in the right direction. Here is what they suggest:
Deactivate several hyperlinks at once
Type the number 1 in a blank cell, and right-click the cell.
Click...
Outlook Tip: Two Time Zones:
My company has offices on both the east and west coasts. People often schedule video conferences or phone calls with people on the opposite coast and there is confusion about when the meeting is taking place. Outlook has a feature that can help avoid confusion.
1. In your Outlook calendar, right click on the time and select "Change Time Zone."
2. Click "Show an Additional Time Zone"
3. Select the additional time zone that you need
[via Lifehacker]
Neat
My post on Erotic Photo Hunt from way back continues to be one of my most popular. Check this line out:
We took the step of dividing up the team into specialties - hair, apparel, background, with secondary targets of footwear, breasts, pool balls.
And then today I read this:
…here's a study that suggests that different cultures literally see things differently.
Shown a photograph, North American students of European background paid more attention to the object in the foreground of a scene, while students from China spent more time studying the background and taking in the whole scene, according to University of...
I once shared that I could long jump 16 feet. I was immediately ridiculed as a braggart and there was no way that was possible and I should shut up etc. I still hold that I can as long as a) I have running shoes on b) there is a legitimate sand pit c) an accurate tape measure. As a justification for my comments, I offered that the world record in the long jump is 29.3 feet and I could surely come within 50% of the record.
Then I stepped up the rhetoric: Could I come with 50% of any...
Groundhog Day is one of those movies that I love more and more with repeating viewings. Coincidence or irony?
Anyway, I almost always go to IMDB for trivia at some point during a home viewing of any movie. Here are my favs on this one:
Phil Connors goes through February 2nd, 34 times. There were many more days implied, for example how he knew everyone so well in the diner, but only 34 days were actually shown.
Supposedly Paul Lynde was the inspiration for a line in Groundhog Day. After a high-speed chase through the Valley one night when he was...
Why they invented the Internet, take 2:
Slate’s first Keeping Tabs: A summary of what’s been in the tabloids.
Ok, looking back, take 1 was actually I had a The Real Reason Blogs Were Invented. But you’ll see the connection.
[photo credit Emily Wilson]
[that’s Vinod striking a pose]
I work in the fashion district and our office is close to Bryant Park. Some of you New Yorkers might be familiar with the bar at Bryant Park, but you probably only know about the one on the North side that gets mucho crowded and rubs me the wrong way for whatever reason (crowding aside). There is a better option if you go South, climb the stairs to the upstairs part of whatever this restaurant is called. The view is better, the breeze is better, the crowds are thinner. They also have what...
You know how there are tools that exist that make what your doing pleasurable and you find that you actually want to do whatever work is involved? For me, a while ago it was the 38 gallon butterfly $189 trash can; I seeked out trash just so I could use it.
I picked one of these up for a couple of cents back in my Boston days and I relish opening mail. The chore becomes so effortless, the sound it makes ripping open (and so cleanly!) the envelope is addictive.
Well, y’all should get one just for that alone, but...
Such a strange sight. So unnatural looking.
Can you imagine that first meeting? “Well, we can take off in Florida and land in California. How do we get it back to FL? Hows about we strap it to the top of a 747?”
This comes from Slate’s explainer explaining how it is all done. I like this fact: “Due to the piggybacked plane's lousy aerodynamics and sizeable weight, the SCA's fuel efficiency is significantly less than that of a commercial airliner. As a result, an SCA can't fly more than 1000 nautical miles without refueling. The trip back will take up...
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley (1985)
1 Jungle Man ... 4:09 2 Hollywood ... 5:03 3 American Ghost Dance ... 3:44 4 If You Want Me to Stay 4:07 5 Nevermind 2:48 6 Freaky Styley z ... 3:39 7 Blackeyed Blonde ... 2:40 8 The Brothers Cup ... 3:27 9 Battle Ship ... 1:53 10 Lovin' and Touchin' ... :36 11 Catholic School Girls Rule ... 1:55 12 Sex Rap ... 1:54 13 Thirty Dirty Birds ... :14 14 Yertle the Turtle ... 3:38
One of my favorite albums is twenty years old. I admit that on my Friendster profile I put Uplift Mofo Party Plan as a favorite, but really this is *the* album, but the...
Back in the day, I used to somewhat into customization of my desktop environment. But after the umpteenth new PC build, I tend to stick with a relative few changes to suit my style.
I stay with the the XP “Luna” theme and go blue for home, silver for work, olive for the laptop, and classic XP for almost all VMs and remote desktops. This makes it pretty easy to tell where I am without doing any time-wasting thinking.
Anyway, I was working on my dad’s new dual core Pentium D Gateway machine this weekend and it had this slightly...
Another “Corey standing in to test the lighting” outtake. Magazines are working on fall issues now, which I find strange. This was for a Halloween related article — shot in a basement apartment in Brooklyn.