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Pictures I took one-handed while
Pictures I took one-handed while riding my motorcycle up the Mount Washington Auto Road today, so that I could brag that I wasn’t clutching the handlebars the whole time: …of course, the scariest part was going down. At some points, we’d round a corner of an unpaved section (no guardrails anywhere along the road) and…
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Meme of the day:
Meme of the day: ever wonder what SWAT signals mean? Pictured at right: “Aim for the ass”. See all the hand signals and their meanings
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Is this the excuse I’ve been waiting to attach giant rubber shoulderpads to my motorcycle jacket?
Bob Smith and I were sitting in a nondescript diner just off of I-84 in Kingston, NY, when the lights started to flicker and go dark. “Ha!” joked the russian owner behind the cash register. “You see? I didn’t pay my electricity bill!” The lights kept flickering, then gradually died out, and the diner became…
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I’m selling two extra NYC
I’m selling two extra NYC 30-day metrocards. Fifty bucks each, two available (as of now).
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One of the first goals
One of the first goals for my book project is to read my way through the entire canon of time travel fiction. I’ve got my work cut out for me — and a lot of books with embarassing airbrushed cover art to wade through.
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My friend and ex-colleague
My friend and ex-colleague Kenneth Courtney IMmed me yesterday with a coding question. After leaving [My employer] a while ago, Ken started a designer line called Ju$t Another Rich Kid. Featured items: “starfucker” shirts: vintage tees and Fred Perry shirts modded with mendacious Williamsburg one-upsmanship. Not surprisingly, the shirts are getting him all kinds of…
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I’m reading a great book
I’m reading a great book called What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist — the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England. There’s a bazillion books and self-satisfied magazine articles out there that will explain the quirkier customs of Georgian and Victorian etiquette (“Who goes in to dinner first…
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Taken from www.catbirdseat.org
Taken from www.catbirdseat.org
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I’m back from a
I’m back from a long weekend bike trip: Four days, twenty-five hours in the saddle, 1,1166 miles. (Some riders do that mileage in one day!) I had a vague idea that I wanted to go to the Adirondacks, or maybe Nantucket. Using the ancient principle of flipping a coin, then doing the opposite thing, I…
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Go look at this right
Go look at this right now: http://www.ntv.co.jp/channel/asx/hkzkt10.asx
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