Notice how the space for sitting is quantized. The ridges don’t really prevent homeless from sleeping there, but they make the whole experience unpleasant for them. Overall it’s a very well designed bench.
Author: deadprogrammer
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Subway Bench
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Big Swinging Ones
I couple of days ago I spotted this place on NYPD blue. A perp was unloading a stolen guitar in this pawn shop.
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I don’t need to go to Europe to see castles. We have enough of them in Manhattan.
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Martha Stewart Eat Your Heart Out
I am a looser. I spent half a day today cleaning out “science experiments” from my fridge, washing the shelves and organizing its contents. In other words – “portrait of the hacker at home” (click the link, don’t be lazy) or Cowboy Bebop Session 11 (my favorite episode).
My fridge is pretty cool. It even looks like a mainframe or a supercomputer.
I am going to add blinkenlights some day.Anyway, here is a tip for you. Supermarkets keep vegetables fresh longer by using this special lining material (pvc-coated filter). It allows better circulation of air or something. Supposedly it can prolong the life of fruit and vegetables by 50%. I bought mine from Amana for $8, but it can be had cheaper. The veggies do live longer it seems.
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Some quick nerdy news
Ethernet card for my TIVO is on it’s way. I wish it was available when my TIVO’s modem got killed by a surge from a lightning storm (I had to ship it to a guy who fixed it for $50). I’ll probably install TivoWeb because Yahoo! seems to be pretty slow in rolling out online TIVO programming that was promised.
Powershot G3 is available for preorder. I can’t believe they used the same moronic silver color for it. Again. Didn’t they get enough angry letters from photographers (so many that the actually made a black color version of G2).
By the way, it’s interesting to watch the progress of design of G1, G2 and G3. One thing that I noticed is that the grip handle gets progressively bigger and more comfortable.
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Palm Engineers are Weenies
I was looking for some handwriting recognition software for PC when I came across this:
http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/reviews/myscript.asp
Mehehe.
Anyway, I am going to write about my love that turned to hate for products made by companies employing Jeff, Donna and Ed some other time. -
On my way home
Outside of the building where I work
Descending to a subway platform
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Guess which birds live in this ugly nest at Brooklyn College stadium?
Fricking Monk parrots.
organaut‘s parents have one as a pet. The little green bastard talks a little, but has a very nasty attitude. -
Brooklyn College Library
Visited Brooklyn College yesterday to take a look at the newly reopened library.
Well, they’ve spent countless millions, and now the insides look like a typical yuppie apartment. Various designer chairs (mostly Aerons and some other expensive looking wooden ones) , desks. The circulation desk looks like a reception desk in a Fortune 100 company. Tons of tables with ethernet hookups. Some crappy Dells with 15 inch flat panel monitors running Win XP are available in “labs”. Lots of air conditioning ducts and eyes-in-the-sky.
Could not find any of the books that I wanted in the horrible mainframe search app (you telnet into it from the workstations). I was looking for some Lee Friedlander photography books , “The Legend of Amdahl”, some real estate books, some books about NYPD. Nada. Oh well, there is abebooks.com and amazon.com. And I have Aerons and fast network connection at home.
I thing that royally pisses me of is that they are using crappy bright fluorescent lamps. I hate those. At work I unhooked one that is right above my cube because it was driving me nuts. Yeah, spend millions on chairs and desks and install lamps that give everyone headaches.
The La Guardia reading room is gorgeous. There were some very nice black and white photos on the walls, a mildly interesting exposition of historical documents and photographs.
If I actually found any good books and did not get a headache from the lamps it would have been a great experience.
