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  • New York City Graffiti and Wall Murals – Part 1

    This is a topic I could make many, many posts about, so I’ll just label them all “New York city Graffiti” with a different part number.  Unlike some other places I’ve lived, including other places here in the US, graffiti and murals are prolific here in the city.  In fact, you could almost say it’s…

  • Is It Worth It To Get A Kindle 3? Why, Yes. Yes It Is!

    A few weeks ago I was just arriving in Georgia to visit family and when I got there, my aunt made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.  A Kindle 3 in exchange for yard work.  I didn’t have to think about it hard, or for too long.  Her back yard is pretty big, and it…

  • Classic New York City Taxi

    I saw this old fashioned taxi cab parked on the side of the road.  I assume it’s still being used, but I could be wrong.  Maybe someone bought it and is using it as a personal vehicle and they enjoy the novelty of driving it. I don’t ride in taxis much here.  They’re way too…

  • 2010 New York City Halloween Parade Pictures

    I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!  I spent my evening out on 6th avenue watching the annual Halloween Parade, which is said to be the largest Halloween event in the country.  I’ve gone to see it once before, in 2007 when I was here in the city on leave from Kuwait to visit family.…

  • MTA’s SBS Bus Service Is A Big Step In The Wrong Direction

    The M15 limited bus is one of the new SBS buses in New York City.  It uses a new system where you buy a ticket from one of the machines pictured above before you board the bus and then you can enter the bus from any of the doors, rather than just the front door…

  • A Pepsi Throwback That Should Stay Back

    When I was in Singapore, maybe two years ago, I remember hearing about a movie called “Food, Inc.”, which is about the food industry in the US.  It covers a lot of ground, but one of the areas it really hits on is the prevalence of corn products and byproducts in almost everything we consume…

  • The New York City Fire Department Don’t Play

    This morning I accompanied my mom to Times Square Church.  We left late, but hey, that’s what happens when you stay up til 2 AM.  Anyhow, we went out the door at about 10 AM and when we got to 14th street, where we usually catch the bus to Union Square for the train, the…

  • How to Add Prepaid Credit to your Philippines Phone While in the US

    One of the biggest problems to overcome when you’re in the US and have family and friends in the Philippines is finding a cheap way to stay in touch.  There are a lot of options out there for cheap communication to the Philippines, which I’m still sorting through, but to keep things cheap for the…

  • Two Quiet Weeks in Georgia

    My blog has been pretty quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve been down in Georgia visiting family.  It’s nice and quiet there, so quiet in fact that the advertisements in the newspaper are sometimes thicker than the newspaper itself.  So… that doesn’t leave much to talk about.  The paper even covered the disappearance of a…

  • Fake Chinese Food

    Once upon a time, before I actually visited a mostly Chinese ethnic country, I thought I knew what Chinese food was, and it looks like this: Imagine my surprise to not find egg rolls over there.  No one knew what an egg roll was, unless they’d been here.  There’s something similar called lumpia, but it’s…