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Well, look who’s back!

Posted by Greg T. on December 5th, 2007 in New York, Videos, Work

You can tell who actually reads your blog or wonders if you’re dead when you don’t post for a month and a half. Those people start telling you to update your blog. My apologies. Amidst some computer rebuilding, I, from time to time, neglect my blog. No wonder only 2 people read it on a regular basis…and one of them is me.

News? It’s officially winter in NYC. This is my first East coast winter, which is substantially different from a Bay Area or Santa Barbara winter. People more often talk about the weather. You must bundle up, or bundle down. My wardrobe was not prepared for winter, so I’m slowly procuring more garnmets that will keep me warm.

I’ve been working at Motionbox for about six months now. We announced today a series B round of funding, which will hopefully put food in my mouth and a roof over my head for a bit longer.

Sushi Club, our annual Campolindian get together, will be held on December 26th at David’s house. Come one, come all.

Below, David visited New York this past weekend. First snow of the year. First snow in NYC for me.

Curious

Posted by Greg T. on October 8th, 2007 in New York, Work

I had the day off today (to celebrate Christopher Columbus the colonizer) but opted to save my vacation day for a rainy day.

Today’s question…what’s on the roof of 55 Broad Street? Below is what’s on the side of 55 Broad, maybe tomorrow we’ll find out what’s on top…

55 Broad st

Dull edge

Posted by Greg T. on August 22nd, 2007 in Nerd Stuff, Shot on Film, Work

I’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!

Crazy sky time

Posted by Greg T. on July 26th, 2007 in New York, Shot on Film, Work

It’s strange to work in a touristy area. Work is a block from the New York Stock Exchange (building covered in patriotic clothing). You go outside for tea, go to and from work, and there are always tourists, slowing up traffic, pointing their cameras at the tall tall buildings. Sometimes after work, I’ll walk one block up to Federal Hall, sit on the steps and tourist watch.

This is the intersection of Wall and Nassau, which, up until 9/11, was the site of the most deadly (yet widely unknown) terrorist attack on US soil. (astia film)

Wall St