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About the Author
Sun, 10/28/2007 - 10:25 — deadprogrammer
My name is Michael Krakovskiy. I am a web programmer. I grew up in Odessa, Ukraine. In 1992, at the tender age of 16 I emigrated into the United States. I live in Brooklyn with my wife and little daughter. What I look like:
Some of the places where I've worked: Nathan's Famous of Coney Island Time Buying Services, Inc. (defunct?) Citibank (as a consultant) Morgan Stanley (also as a consultant) UGO.com (then Actionworld) iXL (now engulfed by Avenue A/Razorfish) Some of the schools that I attended: Middle School #39 - Odessa, Ukraine Sheepshead Bay High School - New York, NY City University of New York - Brooklyn College - Brooklyn, NY Miskatonic University - Arkham, MA Language: My native language is Russian. I write my blog entries in English as it gives me a wider audience, but if you want to talk to me, feel free to use Russian. If not, English or Ukrainian is always a good choice. How to contact me: Send me an email (
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My name is Michael Krakovskiy, and this is my blog.
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100 Views of the Empire State Building project: I try to take 100 interesting photos of Manhattan's (sadly) tallest building.
My Gastronomic Adventures: I eat weird food - from 13 year old New Coke to Durian and parasitic fungi.
My attempts to grow exotic plants: pineapples, coconuts, etc.
My photos, mostly of New York City.
My musings about architecture mostly illustrated with my own photos. Would you like to learn about a mental patient who died at 103 who served as a model for some very famous sculptures? How about Brooklyn's ugliest building? How about a wooden skyscraper?
I find myself frequently writing about logos. The most popular article I ever wrote is about the redesigns of the Starbucks logo.
I wrote a series of "Best Sci-Fi You Haven't Read" posts:
Psywarrior
Yes, Virginia There Is Synergy
Call Time Police - We've Got a Time Traveler
Other topics that interest me include NYPD, New York City subway system, Japan, and things made out of titanium. On top of all of that, I seem to be interested in pigeions and Rupert Murdoch.
Dear reader, please browse around. You are sure to find something interesting. I could really use some help in bringing in readership: subscribe to the rss feed, digg the stories (there's a convenient button at the bottom of every article), link to my blog from yours, write some comments. I put in a lot of effort into writing, and I really appreciate your attention.
If you don't want all this pseudo-intellectual bullshit and want some lolcats? Please don't go away. Here, I have that stuff too. Here, here's another. And another. And another. I lied about not posting cat pictures.