Oh man. Strong machine 2 is awesome. She’s the 12 year Japanese half of a father-daughter pop and lock duo. Here’s the video, you’ll see what I mean… (gets awesome at 1:35)
Archive for August, 2007
Need more sunset
Posted by Greg T. on August 28th, 2007 in New YorkI went to Coney Island over the weekend but I’ll save that for another post…
Killed a tweet of time today after work by wandering around Battery Park and watching the sun set over the Hudson before hitting up a Yelp elite open bar.
Below: The colorful stuff in this photo is the privacy screening that normally goes over chain link fences such as this. Thank you privacy screening designer for infusing a bit of color into this Battery Park construction site.
adblock
Posted by Greg T. on August 25th, 2007 in Nerd Stuff, New York, VideosAdblock is the shit. It’s a Firefox add-on. It lets you block images, iframes or flash in web pages based on the source. I’d totally recommend running it. At first I didn’t get it (for 2 seconds), as I thought It’d automatically block ads. But then I found that you have to build your own database of ads.
So I took 5 minutes, went to my daily reads, right clicked on the ads and blocked them down to the root, i.e.,
This: http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/800/14845/1187986648/oasc04.247realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/BusWeek/AMD_63019_ros_300_geo/AMD_PeoplePower_300x250.swf?clickTAG=http://oascentral.businessweek.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/businessweek.com/home/143853630/Right2/BusWeek/AMD_63019_ros_300_geo/AMD_63019_ros_300x250_geo.html/34353536653630383436643036646630?http://breakfree.amd.com/people/?sa%20_campaign=media/breakfree/busweek/crmain
Becomes this:
http://a248.e.akamai.net/* (Edit: be careful about blocking Akamai content, they deliver good and bad. Probably more good than bad.)
I stamped out annoying flash ads (press ctrl-F, and then click on the beige overlay), silly google adsense text ads and even that Washlets ad (NSFW maybe, seeing butt doesn’t make me want to wash butt…oh btw, watch the video with the Asian woman: Washlet is “an opportunity to pamper yourself” [your butthole]).
You can also block non-advertising content, say for instance someone’s ugly profile pic on Facebook or all those annoying badges on TechCrunch. Whenever I come across a new ad, I love stamping it out. Yep. I’d definitely recommend it.
Below, from the NY Transit Museum. A detailed model of how a hydrogen fuel cell works. For homie Daivd who 1) shared a video with me and 2) works on hydrogen fuel cell buses.
Dull edge
Posted by Greg T. on August 22nd, 2007 in Nerd Stuff, Shot on Film, WorkI’ve been working on the design and coding of our of email newsletter at work. Curious? Basically pretend it’s 1999 and use only tables and inline styles for design. Then assume you have these test cases…Mac and PC versus Firefox, IE6, IE7 and Safari versus clients Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Outlook 03, Outlook 07, Entourage. Multiply all by all = test cases. Emailing 45,000 people in one fell swoop–all in a day’s work.
Here’s a happy little site: tools.google.com/gapminder. It’s a google labs flash tool for visualizing the disparities in life expectancy and per captia income by country.
Below, a airplane narrowly escapes nebulous clouds of toxic gas as lightning bolts shoot across the sky, one narrowly missing the jetliner. All the while, a coarse hail falls–some hailstones as large as soccerballs. In the distance a fire rages–a fire so hot that the sky itself has become engulfed in flames!
Yum
Posted by Greg T. on August 20th, 2007 in New York, Shot on FilmPinkberry is opening on the Upper West Side. I spotted it.
In accordance with my ’1 museum per weekend’ policy, I spent many hours at the American Museum of Natural History. Over all, good for kids, but nothing that you or I would be upset about missing. The dino exhibit is awesome, but few museum goers (aka woooing kids and tired parents) take the time to read the signage. The museum has what is touted to bet the best T-rex skeleton in the world. The fossilized skeleton in itself is from 1908–it’s history rolled upon history. Doh, however, film is not yet processed.
Below, Tam at a Surface Magazine release party. Gosh I love film.
Water Taxi
Posted by Greg T. on August 15th, 2007 in New York, Shot on FilmTook the Water Taxi with Christine from Wall St to Hunters Point in Queens. Put feet in artificial sand for first time in long time. Played volleyball with random dudes. Got sand in pants. Then Pinkberry in K-town.
Below: Central Park westish, on a nice sunny spring day. Film has coffee on it.
Why do you look down on me?
Posted by Greg T. on August 12th, 2007 in New YorkWandered to PS1 today in Brooklyn. Wandered back to City Hall. Wandered to Chinatown. Bought super cheap fresh salmon from meat market. Wandered home, cooked.
Below: 7 stories up on the Manhattan Municipal Building, a security camera.
My Yelp Reviews- Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream (3/5) on Yelp May 27, 2011
- MUD (4/5) on Yelp September 25, 2010
- MUD (4/5) on Yelp September 16, 2010
- Terrace Fish & Chip (4/5) on Yelp September 16, 2010
- The Immigrant (4/5) on Yelp September 16, 2010
