Need To Move
My rent is up and I am completely fed up with the building where I live. I definitely need to move. The real-estate market is at it’s peak, and buying now is probably stupid. Still, I am looking. How...
View ArticleTwo and Four-legged Bomb Protection
JWZ posted a link about a trained hawk that attacked a Chihuahua in Bryant Park. The hawks were used for scaring away pigeons. The hawks were well fed, but still tried to kill a pigeon or two. And of...
View ArticleJonathan Livingston Cellphone
This morning I heard a series of weird rhythmic squeaks on the elevated platform of the Q line subway.What kind of moron would pick such a nasty sound for a cellphone ring, I thought. Turned out it was...
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Subway Doves
While a far cry from the exotic subway riding pigeons of Far Rockaway (I need to pay them a visit some time) described in Randy Kennedy’s “Subwayland“, there are some pigeons that live underground in...
View ArticleI, for one, welcome our new social overlords
Disclamer: I thought that Google Wave was an excellent idea, so you can safely disregard my blathering here. Here’s what I’m picturing in my head: Google has approached Facebook and Twitter on the...
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