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  • Spring Weather and New Camera Photos

    Yesterday was awesome.  I forgot how good it can feel to sit in the sun and just feel warm.  The temperature yesterday got up to 73 F in New York City.  People were carrying their coats and unwrapping their neck scarves.  The city just felt more lively.  Instead of the quick shuffle of bundled people…

  • Why I Love My Kindle, And Why I Don’t

    Last year in October, I was given a Kindle 3 by my aunt in return for doing what turned out to be a LOT of yard work.  Well, a lot more than I expected anyway.  It’d been quite a few years since I’d lived anywhere that required yard work, so I wasn’t able to judge…

  • That Damn L-Train

    Friday morning I had an adventure with the L-Train.  Sort of an adventure.  Well, mostly it was just a pain in the ass that made me late for class.  There was something wrong with the 7 train, so all of the people that normally take the 7 to get into Manhattan were taking the L. …

  • When Is It Ok To Limit Free Speech?

    Before you start reading this, let me give you some background information on why it was written.  I’m taking a 100 level (introductory) American Government and Politics course at CCNY.  We were given an assignment that involved writing a 5 to 6 page essay paper on one of three topics.  I chose the third topic:…

  • Birthday Fun and Vintage 1981 Advertisements

    So, today is my 30th birthday.  I guess that means I’m old now.  It’s one thing to be in your twenties, but when you’re in your thirties, well, I remember thinking that was really, really old when I was a teenager.  Somehow it doesn’t feel old now though, now that I’m the one pushing past…

  • Boba Fett Spotted Playing Accordion on the L-Train Platform at Union Square

    Ya. Really. Look to the left… Look to the right… Play Zelda on your accordion all damn night! This guy is awesome.  A quick Google search shows that he’s been doing this for over a year and he’s had a lot of Internet exposure (obviously) on YouTube and other blogs by people that have spotted…

  • Founded on God, or Founded on Freedom?

    Someone I know was complaining on Facebook that people are forgetting that the US was “built on God but we can’t even pray now.”  I’m taking a US Government and Politics class right now, so this is fresh in my mind, and I think that people are forgetting what the country was founded on.  It…

  • Redefining Racism

    Did you know that there’s no such thing as ‘race’?  Not in the traditional sense of the word anyway.  I did some reading and watched a video lecture for an anthropology discussion assignment and that’s the idea that was being presented, just from two different angles.  I thought the topic was fairly interesting, so I’m…

  • What’s Really Important on Valentine’s Day

    On the way home from class tonight, I passed a flower shop that still had quite a few nice bouquets of roses and other flowers set out.  Instead of making me smile, I frowned and kept on walking by.  It’s not that I have a problem with Valentine’s Day, since I love having an excuse…

  • So, NYC Bus Drivers Only Stop When They Want To Now?

    I went up to Target today with my mom to give her a hand with her bags.  On the way back, we got to 14th street just in time to see a bus pull off, so we walked from 2nd Avenue to 1st Avenue, and right as we got there a bus pulled into the…