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  • 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.

    April 23, 2003

  • 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.

  • Journal News

    I will be eliminating , my Russian journal. I will repost some of the stuff from there in .
    In addition to badly floundering community, I just created . I’ll put my subway rants there. While there will be few subscribers, I will be crossposting in my own journal.

    Unfortunately, there is no “plugging” mechanism in livejournal. I would love to get more readers, but there is no easy way to promote my journal and communities. I think I’ve seen a post about a feature like that in someone’s blog, but I can’t find the link. I need a good url manager. In any way, plugs are appreciated here, at Deadprogrammer Inc.

    Also, here’s a beef I have with you, readers. Every time I ask for some interesting blog recommendations you are silent. What’s up with that? Don’t you know any good journals?

  • IRT – Going Your Way

    What was the logo of IRT (Interborough Rapid Transportation Corporation)?
    I am not sure, but it looks like the designer that was in charge of the corporate image of the first NYC subway company really liked wings.

    A genderless angel holding a winged subway wheel from an $100 IRT stock certificate I recently purchased for 25 bucks.

    A logo I scanned from a reprint of “Interborough Rapid Transit ; the New York Subway , It’s Construction and Equipment” which I mentioned before. Wheee. Notice the third power carrying rail. Cute.