What always amazed me is that water towers are really just wooden barrels. No futuristic technology there.
Penny Black Metrocard
It looks like some people are pretty serious about collecting metrocards. This one is going for $790.00 and this 7 Days OF 70s one went for $536.00. Huh.
Grace Episcopal Church In The Village
Big Brother
Mmmmmm. Disturbing
On my way home I happened to look into a closed dry cleaning store. They had this really eerie wedding dress storage display.
Just Some Random Pictures from my old journal
Righty Loosey
I’ve read somewhere that threads in all emergency light bulbs in subways are inverted. That way they would not fit into a normal socket, and make it harder for would be thieves to steal them. Regular bulbs, like the one on the picture supposedly have normal thread because they are always on and thus hard to steal because of their temperature. This bulb is not store bought – note the NYCTA logo on the bulb.
I didn’t know the difference between NYCTA and MTA. Pretty interesting.
You Know Who
Moving over more stuff from my Russian journal.
Is youknowwho back in LiveJournal? Or did somebody just waste one of my perfectly good lj codes?
Yatta! Yatta! Yatta!
I finally found the bookmark management tool to end all bookmark management tools. It’s called Powermarks. And it’s just perfect.
Hey, if it’s good enough for Dr. Engelbart , it’s good enough for me.
Now, if I could only decide on an outliner…
A Living Classic
Another little pearl from my collection.
Before the anthrax scare Kurt Vonnegut used to have a special PO box for fan mail. He also used to sign books sent there. And, apparently, he even read the letters. I sent him my tattered copy of “Cat’s Cradle”.
I don’t send brand new books for authors to sign. Only the ones that I’ve abusingly read a few times.
