Archive for January, 2005
Thursday, January 27th, 2005
Mr. and Mrs. Frosty
I was walking to the train the other morning after our 16 inches of snow and stumbled across this outside a bar called the LightHorse a couple blocks away from the apartment:
To give you some scale, Mr. Frosty’s heart is at about 6 ft. These are gigantic! And amazing. Definitely a great deal of effort [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in General, NYC by Patrick
Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
TaDa Lists
I know I’m a little behind the news here, but I started using Ta-Da List the day it came out and I loved it from the start.
One of the coolest things is I can share the list with anyone…so for one, I’ve made a list for my wife to use for “Honey Do” items. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Computers, General by Patrick
Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
Movies to astonish you and maybe make you ill
These guys have to be just a little bit crazy since they are doing some amazing jumps from building to building :
http://www.boreme.com/bm/DEC04/a/city-jumping/fr.htm
The gang here at work figures this next one is either from a Fraternaty or (my vote) some bored Armed Service personnel:
http://www.boreme.com/bm/NOV04/a/tablefootball-skills/fr.htm
This last one is a bit of a morbid spoof television commericial. I [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in General by Patrick
Sunday, January 23rd, 2005
Before and After
Ok, so Maggie and I have made it through the first blizzard and we seem to have made it out ok. I wanted to post some before and after pictures to give you an idea of how much snow we got. I don’t have stats for Jersey City, but I saw where Central Park got [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in General, NYC by Patrick
Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
Blizzard Warning!
Ok, here’s something we don’t get in Texas, from the National Weather Service:
…BERGEN NJ-EASTERN PASSAIC NJ-ESSEX NJ-HUDSON NJ-UNION NJ- 600 AM EST SAT JAN 22 2005 CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME
… BLIZZARD WARNING FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING…
SNOW WILL MOVE IN THIS AFTERNOON… AND WILL BECOME VERY HEAVY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE SNOW WILL [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General, NYC by Patrick
Friday, January 21st, 2005
The hacks in use
I’ve been asked which hacks I was using for comment preview and for the comment image.
For “live” preview I am using the code from here:
http://www.chrisjdavis.org/2004/03/15/live-preview-for-comments/
And for the image I am using:
http://www.gudlyf.com/index.php?p=376
Both are pretty easy to install. If you have problems with them, leave comments on the different blogs and the code authors or other [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Patrick
Thursday, January 20th, 2005
Comments are back!
And better than ever…well, maybe.
So I’ve added two hacks to WordPress for comments. The first is a new comment preview that does it “live” below the comment box.
The second one is to try and stop spam. In order to post comments, you’ll have to enter the code displayed. If you fail to enter [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Patrick
Thursday, January 20th, 2005
Fun with Balloons
Check out this picture (click for full size):
I need to find some balloons like that and see what sorts of looks I can get.
I’m guessing the police wouldn’t take it so kindly.
No Comments » - Posted in General by Patrick
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
“Angels & Demons” by Dan Brown
This is the start of a series of entries about books I’ve recently read. I hope to add links to these books to the right and also a section detailing what I am currently reading (at least one person I know was intersted in that tidbit of info).
I picked up “Angels & Demons” because [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Reading by Patrick
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
Snow in NYC
Well, it finally happened. I’m in NYC, and there is snow falling from the sky. We had some snow Sunday night, but I didn’t get to see it falling and I was in Jersey at the time. It’s pretty cool to actually see snow falling in Manhattan. It’s very small and blowing around today. Supposedly [...]
No Comments » - Posted in NYC by Patrick
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
Lowe’s Reserved Seats
Awhile back Maggie and I were looking at going to see Ocean’s Twelve the weekend it opened. I’m always a little fearful of doing so when a movie is probably going to draw a large crowd full of the types of moviegoers I hate (I will leave that for another time). But my biggest fear [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General, NYC by Patrick
Thursday, January 13th, 2005
Corny Jokes
Robert IM’ed me these today:
Joke #1:
A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of
them goes to a family in Egypt and is named “Ahmal.” The
other goes to a family in Spain; they name him “Juan.”
Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth
mother. Upon receiving the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Patrick
Sunday, January 9th, 2005
Vonage
A while back Robert mentioned to me he was going to make the jump to Vonage, a Voice Over IP (VOIP) telephone service created to replace your actual phone company. I told him it all looked good, but to let me know what he thought after using it for a while.
After about a month [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Computers, General by Patrick
Friday, January 7th, 2005
Tsunami Before and After Photos
These photos are amazing. They are before and after shots from where the Tsunami hit a couple of weeks ago. It’s amazing that there were even survivors. I can’t imagine how scary it would have been to see that wave coming and be able to do nothing about it.
http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/9.html
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Patrick
Sunday, January 2nd, 2005
More snow in Texas!?!
Ok, so this past week we were back home to visit my family and my wife’s family for Christmas. When we left New Jersey, it was 50 degrees. When we landed at DFW, it was 20 degrees and once we got to Sherman, there was 3 inches of snow on the ground. That’s more than [...]