March 2006 Entries
This Saturday April 1st from 4pm to 10pm, Emily will be exhibiting seven or eight photos at a benefit in Brooklyn. There will be bands and djs, after 7pm there is a $5 suggested donation. The event was also highlighted in this week’s TimeOut.
I’m definitely going to be there and everyone reading this is invited!
Cheers.
TalkingPointsMemo has a funny political theater gotcha I’d like to share.
This guy who is running for Duke Cunningham’s congressional spot in California put up this picture of “Bhagdad” from his recent trip there as a way of illustrating that the media is over-selling the negatives like, say, civil war and not talking about all the groovy good stuff that is going on over there. He offers this picture -> as evidence.
Except that isn’t Bhagdad. It is a suburb of Istanbul, Turkey called Bakirkoy. TPM’s got a picture of the same intersection from a different angle with arrows and everything.
My...
A few weeks ago I wrote a weak criticism of FireFox and basically wrote it off as a fad. I was kindof disappointed with the way I sounded. My self imposed techno credentials demand that I speak with authority on a topic like this and I don’t think the original post was up to that standard. So it was good timing that the 1.5 release came out and I decided that I ought to live in Firefox world for a while so I could be specific with my cheers and jeers.
Since I was starting fresh on my main workstation (previous...
I got the best birthday present ever this year. Emily organized my whole family to chip in for a day of racing/driving school!
How cool is that?
I got my certificate in the mail, now all I need to do is pick the date and the track. Clearly Limerock in CT is the logical choice there.
If anyone has done anything like this, I’d love to hear some advice for a first timer.
Cory Doctorow: This Guardian article, written by a former goth, makes the case that goths disproportionately grow up to be high-earning professionals -- and includes a 10-point quiz to help you figure out if your boss is a closet/reformed goth.
Visitors to the Archangel dental surgery in west London are confronted by a goth dentist, Didier Goalard, who says: "I've got goth friends who are doing quite well. There's a dentist in Lyon, a couple of solicitors, a Church of England priest." …
Goalard the dentist is now 39 but refuses to wear the white smock, preferring to top his...
Ralf Schumacher_wedding
Originally uploaded by soccer_addict.
I don't know a whole lot about wedding dresses, but this one strikes me as pretty far on the trashy side, no?
This article in Slate goes into the economics of the current Hollywood obsession with movie sequels, remakes, rehashes and video game adaptations. The author singles out The Island as an example of a big budget movie that didn’t fit into the formula and subsequently failed at the box office. Since I’d like to see more original content at the box office, I made a direct effort to go to Blockbuster and rent it.
For those that don’t even remember it, The Island features Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson and was directed by Michael Bay. I didn’t really expect to like it all...
While this will probably shock folks that knew me between 1997–2002, I’ve come around on the frugal lifestyle.
Today’s frugal tips happen to all be about eating and drinking at work, cheap.
Poor man’s iced green tea blend: Step 1, buy some green tea tea-bags from your local health food store, I went for one package of regular and one decaf. Most companies provide regular black tea from Lipton on the kitchenette. Take one green tea and one black tea, add one equal and one regular sugar and fill with boiling water. Equal alone without some actual sugar was too...
Beer pong
Originally uploaded by nuwanda.
I snapped this picture at my local Food Emporium, which is a very normal, smallish Manhattan grocery store.
In the foreground you can see packs of ping pong balls. Now, according to this valuation map (http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/03/08/salmon_bites_valuation_map_of_manhattan.php) Ping pong tables are prohibatively wasteful uses of space. So it took me a few minutes to figure out why a store that virtually no other non-food products stocked them.
Aha, the answer: Beer Pong.
Where was I at six AM this morning?
Watching the first practice session of Formula One’s Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix on Speed Channel.
Okay, it was more like seven thirty due to the wonders of time shifting. But I was still up-and-at-‘em like a kid on Christmas.
This was our first look at all the new cars, new livery, paint schemes, new drivers.
The race is on Sunday at 6am Eastern time. Speedtv.com
(the thing at the right is the track layout)
My friend Jeremy made this:
JUST CRUISE - Tom Cruise Running as Nike Commercial
There's a trend in Tom Cruise movies, he runs, over and over again. After studying his filmography, we compiled this Tomontage as a mock Cruise version of the latest Nike commercial. Whether you want to BE LIKE TOM or DON'T LIKE TOM is your choice. Depending on your view, watching the Cruiser run through many acclaimed Bruckheimer and Spielberg titles may inspire you as much as the original Nike Awake commercial to jump out of bed, grab your Nike Air Max 360 trainers and run all over...
sitehonda07
Originally uploaded by Barrichello.
I subscribe to the tag "F1" on flickr and noticed that a set of Honda images came through with the name Barrichello on them.
When I clicked on the link it took me his profile where it states the full name "Rubens Barrichello" and "I'm Male, 33 and Taken."
Rubens Barrichello is a Formula One driver, who is 33 and married.
I wonder if this is really his own flickr feed. There about twenty pics up there now, all from a recent shoot with Ruben's new team,...
I am infatuated with the bodega “el gato” cats. My choice of delis is wide and I go with ones with cats when possible.
And I happen to be working from the lobby of the Algonquin hotel near Times Square and they have a super-premium hotel gato. I only have my camera phone camera handy and the light is too low to get a good pic, but picture a fluffy regal looking beast.
It hangs out on the marble check-in counter or on a luggage cart and has a little Japanese style nook near the entry way with its main...
I mentioned it once before as part of a different post, but didn’t do the review justice.
Hamachi is a new VPN product/service that creates and manages VPNs end to end. You can have separate networks for different groups of computers. It handles NAT to NAT situations which is a killer feature. Normally if you have two ends of a VPN at least one of them has to have a non-NAT IP, but not with this.
I’m also using it as a remote support tool. On all the family computers I support, I’m installing it and configuring remote desktop for just the hamachi...