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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
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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.

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Tivo! Tivo! Tivo!

Ok, I am a dork. A dork with a tricked out Tivo.
So far I struggled through:
* Installing TurboNet ethernet card
* Installing a 120 gig drive instead of the two 20 gig drives that came with my Tivo
* Getting telnet to work
and finally, finally!
*Installing Tivo Web

One of the coolest features of Tivo Web is ability to undelete shows.

Here is a list of my "season passes" that I grabbed with Tivo Web.
(I would like to note that I don't watch "Enterprise". does.

# | Show Name | Channel
1 Futurama WNYW
2 The Job COMEDY
3 The Sopranos
4 The Job WABC
5 Sex and the City HBO
6 Six Feet Under HBO
7 ER WNBC
8 Friends WNBC
9 That '70s Show
10 Farscape SCIFI
11 Firefly WNYW
12 Enterprise WWOR
13 The Simpsons WNYW
14 The Man Show COMEDY
15 Antiques Roadshow WNET
16 Malcolm in the Middle WNYW
17 Scrubs WNBC
18 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation WCBS
19 This Old House WNET
20 NYPD Blue TNT
21 Antiques Roadshow UK WLIW
22 Insomniac With Dave Attell COMEDY
23 New Yankee Workshop WNET
24 Samurai Jack TOON
25 Monk USA
26 John Doe WNYW

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Comments

Fri, 07/22/2005 - 00:42 — Anonymous

OK, I can't find the date, but I'm guessing it was mid 2002 when you made this post. It's kinda funny, four of these shows have been cancelled - Firefly, Farscape, Futurama and Enterprise - all scifi. While I dont' miss the last one, I do miss the first three. Hmm, they all start with "F"?.. Scrubs is on the way out as well :]

Fri, 07/22/2005 - 00:58 — deadprogrammer

Well, at least the Firefly movie is coming out and Futurama dvd might happen too.

Fri, 07/22/2005 - 18:54 — Anonymous

Well it's certainly better than nothing. Did you see the "Farscape miniseries"? Bah! While it was better than nothing it was "rushed". They planned to do a 20 episode arc for the last season but ended up having to cram the story into the equivalent of 4 episodes. Better than nothing but still a huge disappointment. I'm guessing Firefly is going to be the same. We're gonna get a semi-typical shoot 'em up type movie that everyone can sort of enjoy (if you love trashy scifi). As a bypropduct it's going to tie up all the lose ends from the series. Is it going to be good? I hope so..

Gah. Stupid bastard studio execs..

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