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Snow in NYC

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Well, it finally happened. I’m in NYC, and there is snow falling from the sky. We had some snow Sunday night, but I didn’t get to see it falling and I was in Jersey at the time. It’s pretty cool to actually see snow falling in Manhattan. It’s very small and blowing around today. Supposedly […]

Lowe’s Reserved Seats

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Awhile back Maggie and I were looking at going to see Ocean’s Twelve the weekend it opened. I’m always a little fearful of doing so when a movie is probably going to draw a large crowd full of the types of moviegoers I hate (I will leave that for another time). But my biggest fear […]

Corny Jokes

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Robert IM’ed me these today: Joke #1: A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named “Ahmal.” The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him “Juan.” Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon […]

Vonage

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A while back Robert mentioned to me he was going to make the jump to Vonage, a Voice Over IP (VOIP) telephone service created to replace your actual phone company. I told him it all looked good, but to let me know what he thought after using it for a while. After about a month […]

Tsunami Before and After Photos

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These photos are amazing. They are before and after shots from where the Tsunami hit a couple of weeks ago. It’s amazing that there were even survivors. I can’t imagine how scary it would have been to see that wave coming and be able to do nothing about it. http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/9.html

More snow in Texas!?!

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Ok, so this past week we were back home to visit my family and my wife’s family for Christmas. When we left New Jersey, it was 50 degrees. When we landed at DFW, it was 20 degrees and once we got to Sherman, there was 3 inches of snow on the ground. That’s more than […]

Punctuation

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Will comes through again with a very funny link with regards to punctuation: http://www.zefrank.com/punc/ Enjoy!

Brr…it got chilly

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We have a roasty, toasty warm high of about 17 degrees today , which a wind chill somehwere around -2 (or lower, depending on the gusts). I’ve come to realize that maybe, just maybe, I should have worn my thermals to work. Those last couple of blocks to the train station were a bit chilly. […]

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

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Will sent me the following link: http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/ The challenge is to figure out if the person pictured invented a computer programming language or were a serial killer. I didn’t do so well…I only got 4 out of 10 correct. Yikes!

Snow!

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Well, it’s finally happened. Some snow fell for the first time this winter in NYC. I’m sure I will be sick of it by the end of the winter season. But hey, it’s kinda cool to live in a place where they seemed prepared for it. The question is: Am I? 🙂

Ask you shall receive!

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So Will sent me a link this morning..and lo and behold, someone with time on their hands has reverse engineered the Google Suggest stuff. http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-suggest-dissected.html

How did they do that?!

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Google never ceases to amaze me. Try this version of their search engine: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1 Then start typing a search and be amazed!

Best 404 Page Ever

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This has to be one of my favorite 404 error pages ever. Very closely followed by the SGI crying baby, for which I can not find a link to show. For those of you not familiar with a “404 Page”, it’s the term given to the page served by the webserver when it can’t find […]

Comment Spam

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Ok, so I just got hit with my first ever taste of comment spam. 76 bonus comments advertising online casinos. That was fun to delete, especially since WordPress’s page to do mass deletes doesn’t appear to work. I wonder where they linked to my blog from? Anyway, going to have to disable comments until I […]

Moving!

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Ok, this may sound crazy to some of you out there, but after only being in our apartment for 5 months, we’re changing apartments in our building. The offere was too good to pass up. An additional 230 sq.ft. for only $60 more a month. We’ll be adding a Den, an extra bathroom and upgrading […]

Team America: World Police

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So I finally got around to seeing Team America: World Police. I laughed so hard I was in tears and my stomach hurt. Compared to South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, Team America is a much better movie. The quality takes a bit of hit with it all being done with puppets, but at the […]

Katz’s Delicatessen

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So Maggie and I where headed to a silly art opening at a bar on the Lower East Side for a co-worker of mine’s wife and were recommended to stop at Katz’s Deli on the way. Little did we remember that’s the diner from the orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally! They even have […]

Harrier Falls Out of Sky!

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Airforce Harrier Falls Out of Sky Get out of the way!

My vote the best use of ASCII art and Flash.

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ImageShack – Hosting :: feuerfreimovie.swf Enjoy Update….link is toast now. Sorry.

Moulin Rouge! On the Big Screen

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Yes, I know, not exactly current cinema. But tonight Maggie and I went to the ClearView Cinema in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan to see the Moulin Rouge! on the big screen as a part of their Thursday “classics” night. We had missed the movie when it originally played in theaters and thought it would […]