I learned yesterday of a very interesting option for women in New York City who need a safe way of getting home after a long night out. A non-profit called Right Rides runs two programs about which I will spreading the word, through this site and through my own word-of-mouth, because they might save someone […]
I’m trying to eat simpler these days and I am trying to live by the creed of “If my great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize it as food, I’m not buying/eating it.” To that end, I like to get my food direct from the source with as few additives as possible. Organic is good. Its not the be […]
Is there anything sufficiently motivated and nerdy students cannot do? The Donkey Kong a la Post-It installation below can be found at UC Santa Cruz. It took a team of ten Nintenerds about five hours to complete it and they used over 6,400 colored Post-it Notes (although they had to buy over 14,000 to get […]
The Die Hard franchise of movies overall is great fun and Die Hard recently was voted the best action movie of all time. Even the 3rd movie was good, mostly because it took place in NYC. To show their love, a music group made a song about these flicks and now I can’t get it […]
Five decisions were recently made by the Supreme Court in cases that were pending before it. They all were 5-4 rulings and each time it was the same five for and the same five against. All five of the decisions refute, repeal or ignore past precidents and they unfortunately are a sign of things to […]
Like many people who vote Democrat and who are paying careful attention to the 2008 Presidential race, I am currently torn between Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton. I used to also throw John Edwards in the mix but now its just down to Hil and the Big O. To help me make up my mind, […]
Paul McCartney played a secret and free show at the Highline Ballroom yesterday and I missed it. I have all the time in the world right now to sit and wait on a line for tickets yet knowledge of this show escaped my usual network of sources and I only found out about it today […]
I received the list below in an email from my Uncle and I have to say, it was the first forward in a long time that I not only read but found humorous. Those in a relationship with a woman will find the list below especially useful. So, without futher ado, the nine words that […]
The Sopranos are dead. Long live the Sopranos. I am sad, yet exhilarated that the show ended the way it did. After watching the Sopranos finale titled “Made in America,” you will find yourself in 1 of 2 camps, you loved it or hated it, and it’s all because of those last 5 minutes in […]
For a city that has only existed for about 100 years, there seems to be an inordinate amount of famous legal problems that have developed there. Skipping straight to the 60’s, we have: the Watts riots; rampant & gross corruption in their police department for years; the Rodney King trial, acquittal and subsequent riots; the […]