Archive for April, 2007

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Mmmm, That’s Good Eating

Pinknest and I went to dinner last night and had tapas. Take a look.
Quote of the evening, by me:
I’d live in the Bronx before I’d live in the Queens.
For my readers outside the five boroughs, it’s just Queens not “the Queens”.

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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

All the News…

I’m a devoted New York Times reader but these recent articles in the Washington Post may cause me to rethink my newspaper of choice.
Pearls Before Breakfast
An incredibly well written and researched story about having a world class violinist play for change in the Washington D.C. Metro then documenting the results. As a daily subway [...]

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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

I Spy With My Little Eye

Yesterday I picked up two different things from the ground which is more remarkable than it sounds because I live in NYC. Sidewalks here would be considered a Superfund site anywhere else in the country. Filthy does not begin to describe the majority of them. Think bio-hazardous and you’re getting close. Somehow that still doesn’t [...]

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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Stymied by iPhoto

I love my Mac and it’s attendant software so much that I rarely use my PC anymore. But there’s one piece of Mac software that I do not like and it’s iPhoto. I wish there was something specific that I could say was wrong with it but the real problem for me is it’s not [...]

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Monday, April 9th, 2007

Get Me Calvin Klein on the Phone

“You smell like fresh air.”
How’s that for a nice compliment? I rode my bike over to *E*’s this weekend and that was her greeting after I got there. It made me smile and reminded me of one of my all time favorite fortunes.

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Friday, April 6th, 2007

Cutest Traffic Generator, Evah!

You are looking at the single biggest generator of traffic from search engines to this blog(and my old one). Why? Because of a prior post that pointed to her photo. The operative word being “pointed”. The post didn’t even include the photo, just a link to it. The wonders of search engines will never cease [...]

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Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Operation “Bye Bye Belly” Update

Things are going well after four days on my plan to lose the belly beast. I walked the long way on my daily commute morning AND evening on Monday/Tuesday. Yesterday was rainy but I still managed to walk the long way in the morning. Today it was snowy(mostly flurries) but again I walked. I’ll have [...]

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