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What's All this Then?

My name is Michael Krakovskiy, and this is my blog.

Here's what you might find interesting:
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 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.



Poll

I know, I know. My blogging frequency isn't what it should be. I am trying to improve though. And you can help me by voting on what the next post should be about right over here.

Update: I am supposed to have about 900 rss subscribers if I am to believe Feedburner statistics - and guess what, only about forty people voted. Turnouts like this make me want to quit blogging sometimes.

I am still working on a post about web redesigns, probably will post it today.

No votes yet

Comments

Thu, 08/03/2006 - 11:32 — Matt Warren (not verified)

I hope you don't give up blogging, even through you post less often, what you write it better than most of the dross out there.

Thu, 08/03/2006 - 17:02 — Gabriel (not verified)

man, its because of your starbcks post that I started my own blog. please don´t quit. Its nice to hear something from you. I think all posts from your poll are valid, given the way its written is fine.
thanks,
Gabriel

Thu, 08/03/2006 - 21:51 — Sean from Toronto (not verified)

You have a special ability to capture the most unusual human moments with your photography and unique stories. I'm always glad when you post something new on your blog. It doesn't have to be every day, or even every week. Something good is worth waiting for.
Cheers,

Sean :)

Tue, 08/08/2006 - 00:01 — Joe Grossberg (not verified)

I think 5% is a pretty good turnout. Never underestimate people's laziness.

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