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My Team At [My employer] This is my team at [My employer]. As recognition for their hard work and their devotion to our mission, I purchased 100%-human-hair facial appliances for each of them. Here’s a photo of everyone: Alejandro Rubio, Senior Technology Analyst, sporting a classic “P.J. O’Pootertoot’s Pizza-Time Theater” handlebar mustache. Jason Robinette, Senior…

I had a hella birthday, and am now off to Vieques for a week. I’m frantically tying up loose ends, mailing last-minute Christmas thank-you notes, and handing off projects at work. Whew! I can’t wait to go start working on the big stack of Ian Fleming books I got out of the library for beach…

I rolled out of bed this morning, brushed my teeth, pulled on gym shorts and walked to the Spring street New York Sports club to meet my trainer Jason Bravo. The block of Broadway in front of the club was blocked off, though, and there were three or four fire trucks surounding an open manhole…

There was a big snowstorm in New York this weekend. Here’s a picture of Saint Mark’s place at about 9PM on Saturday. It’s a pretty winter scene, but just out of the frame are ten kids from the Bronx watching their friend get his tongue pierced at a sidewalk stand.

“Bring it on!” I said to Steve, the tracksuited manager of Beach Bum Tanning on 23rd street. This was my second visit, on a mission to lay down a primer for my trip to Puerto Rico. Steve responded by putting me in the “medium strength” machine for 15 minutes. Fifteen minutes in the clamshell bed…

I’m back from Christmas with a whole lot of cool swag, including a super-bright little LED flashlight that is perfect for drawing on the glow-in-the-dark wall behind my Murphy Bed. Also, my mom gave me the Lego Mindstorms set, and Kate got me the Vision Command set, so I want to start working on trying…

My group at [My employer] had an outing to the Screening room yesterday; we voted on a movie to see (it ended up being Tron), and had drinks afterwards. I had my PalmPix camera, so I took some pictures. The resulting photographic record kind of looks like one of the old silent movies about The…

A handheld device for those that have an OmniSky and a PalmPix: I am now the proud owner of a handheld, battery operated, double barreled theatrical flash paper cannon. Using this handy-dandy device, I can make balls of fire shoot from my fingertips up to 20 feet! I haven’t actually done it yet, as I…

[My employer] Gets Hit with the Christmas Stick The [My employer] lobby looks as if a galaxy composed entirely of Christmas garland has gone supernova. You can see the piles of artificial greenery, the opened boxes of decorations, and three ‘elves’ hard at work. It’s a big mystery who sent them — is it [My…

I’ve been taking pictures on my PalmPix all weekend, and will post some in the afternoon. Meanwhile, I went to REI and spent the gift certificate that my Mom gave me for Christmas LAST Christmas. I got a Tilley hat, and some other stuff including TOPO!‘s CD-ROM topo map kits for the Catskills, Poconos, Adirondacks,…