Archive for November, 2005
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
Best Non-MadeUp Name Ever
The Straphangers Campaign is a non-profit public interest advocacy group in NYC. They stick up for those of us who commute on the city’s subways, trains, and buses. One of their free services is a weekly email summarizing the scheduled subway diversions. I’ve been using this service for months if not years as it’s very [...]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2005
It’s Ugg’ly boot season again
And I’m disgusted, when will these things go away? It’s like high school when every other guy was wearing desert boots. Some trends just don’t die soon enough.
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Friday, November 4th, 2005
Duh?
My brief stint as a knitter has taught me a very important lesson. A lot more of the artist goes into their creation than I ever realized. I always knew the artist’s concept was there or whatever they were trying to say but it goes much further than that. The current moods [...]
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Friday, November 4th, 2005
Maybe I’m just cranky
Billions of humans have lived and died on this planet. Original thought would seem to have escaped humanity a long time ago. This post is certainly not evidence to the contrary. So whose thoughts are you having?
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
It’s so leetle
Gadget madness and disposable income make for a dangerous combination. I already own a 40GB Ipod but when this little beauty, the Mobiblu DAH-1500i, came out I had to have it. My justification, when I download new albums they tend to get lost in the vastness of my Ipod cause there’s no easy way to [...]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
“!!!!!!!”
I use the exclamation point excessively!!! I’ll try to do better.
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
Emergency!
Here’s another fun city game to play. Try to count how many instances you hear a siren on a daily basis, highest number wins. It’s harder than you think because of their ubiquity. I think the average for NYC would be 6-12 a day. Variations include earliest, latest, shortest time between.
