05th Jun 2005
Tom’s Diner
Archive for the 'EastCoast' Category
28th May 2005
View From The Fountain
Lincoln Center is a fine place to hang out by the fountain and check out all of the comings and goings. A little oasis of open space in the midst of Busy Broadway. There are some very severe looking apartment buildings across the street.
| Lincoln Center is a fine place to hang out by the fountain and check out all of the comings and goings. A little oasis of open space in the midst of Busy Broadway. There are some very severe looking apartment buildings across the street. |
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26th May 2005
Susan Price - Cyanotypes @ Lincoln Center
My wife, Susan Price, is exhibiting a few Cyanotypes at Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, in Lincoln Center (NYC). The show winds up on May 30th. Check out the PDF Press Release for more information.
My wife, Susan Price, is exhibiting a few Cyanotypes at Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, in Lincoln Center (NYC). The show winds up on May 30th. Check out the PDF Press Release for more information.
26th May 2005
Brief Banner Note
The current banner (traffic) is a Nokia 3650 CameraPhone shot, taken from 80th and Amsterdam.
My wife had just remarked about the lighting in the early evening, and how there were so many colors among the cafes. Without thinking about it, I snapped a couple of the passing traffic. Now I’m motivated to get back there (a few hundred feet from where I live) with a real camera, and do some zoom blurs …
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The current banner (traffic) is a Nokia 3650 CameraPhone shot, taken from 80th and Amsterdam. |
My wife had just remarked about the lighting in the early evening, and how there were so many colors among the cafes. Without thinking about it, I snapped a couple of the passing traffic. Now I’m motivated to get back there (a few hundred feet from where I live) with a real camera, and do some zoom blurs …
17th May 2005
Shirt Confidence
Confidence is being a Dogtown Boy, California DNA. wearing my Reyn Spooner Longboard Shirt in NYC. I’m now comfortable enough with my New York side to tell someone to “Piss Off!” if they make wise about my apparel :-) Can’t wear all black every day, ya know?
Confidence is being a Dogtown Boy, California DNA. wearing my Reyn Spooner Longboard Shirt in NYC. I’m now comfortable enough with my New York side to tell someone to “Piss Off!” if they make wise about my apparel :-) Can’t wear all black every day, ya know?
14th May 2005
Red Haired Blur
My wife and I did a photo shoot today in Central Park.
My wife and I did a photo shoot today in Central Park.
30th Apr 2005
Part 1: New York Night, With A Little Bit About Tiger
Did my last post lead anyone to believe that I could post a sober, serious report on Tiger acquisition? Do we really look like hardboiled, veteran reporters? Ha!
The first thing to get out of the way is the comparison between Panther and Tiger. The Tiger crowd is much sharper:
and the Panther crowd was blurry (from October 2003):
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From this alone, we can conclude that Tiger is a better OS.
As is true with any Friday or Saturday evening, Apple SoHo was crowded:
It’s a good thing that there are 2-3 more Apple stores in the works for Manhattan (one next to FAO Schwartz). Apple SoHo is simply too small to handle the island by itself.
I did promise to get a blurry shot:
After half an hour or so of what was a surprisingly boring demo of Spotlight, Sophia and I high-tailed it over towards Astor Place and rang up Susan (armed with a Holga) to come join us for din-din. Susan is at home, waiting for the post Apple store call:
You should know that if you ever go to Astor Place, you must state clearly which Starbucks you’ll meet at, since there are a couple that are catty-corner. The one next to the Downtown exit is, of course, much better. They use better beans, have friendly people, foam the milk better, and count out change a little faster. The one across the street is merely proud to be in its shadow. The other thing to know about Astor Place is that there are hundreds of people milling around waiting for their friends to show up. It’s The Portal into the Lower East Side. The tattoos and piercings get better by the block as you walk eastward …
Here you can see Sophia dutifully studying the Tiger “manual”. I’m, er, people watching:
So we all meet up, walk all over, and end up finding a cool Italian place on 2nd Avenue. Then things started really getting blurry…
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Nah nah nah, just kidding! This wasn’t some booze-fest at CBGB’s. We ambled around in that in-between zone where we aren’t tourists, but we’re not from that neighborhood either. Clutching the precious copy of Tiger, we bounded down to the train:
Time to transfer:
Bleary-eyed, Tiger would have to wait! Moral is: go right home after purchasing, do not head out for a night on the town :-)
| Did my last post lead anyone to believe that I could post a sober, serious report on Tiger acquisition? Do we really look like hardboiled, veteran reporters? Ha! |
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The first thing to get out of the way is the comparison between Panther and Tiger. The Tiger crowd is much sharper:
and the Panther crowd was blurry (from October 2003):
From this alone, we can conclude that Tiger is a better OS.
As is true with any Friday or Saturday evening, Apple SoHo was crowded:
It’s a good thing that there are 2-3 more Apple stores in the works for Manhattan (one next to FAO Schwartz). Apple SoHo is simply too small to handle the island by itself.
I did promise to get a blurry shot:
After half an hour or so of what was a surprisingly boring demo of Spotlight, Sophia and I high-tailed it over towards Astor Place and rang up Susan (armed with a Holga) to come join us for din-din. Susan is at home, waiting for the post Apple store call:
You should know that if you ever go to Astor Place, you must state clearly which Starbucks you’ll meet at, since there are a couple that are catty-corner. The one next to the Downtown exit is, of course, much better. They use better beans, have friendly people, foam the milk better, and count out change a little faster. The one across the street is merely proud to be in its shadow. The other thing to know about Astor Place is that there are hundreds of people milling around waiting for their friends to show up. It’s The Portal into the Lower East Side. The tattoos and piercings get better by the block as you walk eastward …
Here you can see Sophia dutifully studying the Tiger “manual”. I’m, er, people watching:
| So we all meet up, walk all over, and end up finding a cool Italian place on 2nd Avenue. Then things started really getting blurry… |
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Nah nah nah, just kidding! This wasn’t some booze-fest at CBGB’s. We ambled around in that in-between zone where we aren’t tourists, but we’re not from that neighborhood either. Clutching the precious copy of Tiger, we bounded down to the train:
Time to transfer:
Bleary-eyed, Tiger would have to wait! Moral is: go right home after purchasing, do not head out for a night on the town :-)
28th Apr 2005
Tiger Day
Deja vu all over again.
It was October 24th, 2003, that I stood in line to buy Panther. I’ll certainly be at Apple SoHo tomorrow night, if only to keep some sense of Geek Cred. I mean, it would have been all too easy to just order the damn Tiger from Amazon, right? I enjoy a sense of occasion. I’ll even wear my Panther dog tags. To those that understand, no explanation is necessary, and to those that don’t, no explanation will suffice :-)
As I did last time, I’ll be cautious and only install Tiger on an external FW drive. I only have the one Mac here in NY, but have about 5 FW drives - easy call! I can suffer booting Panther outside the house for a little while. The word on the web points to some broken apps and some annoyances. Word to the wise: don’t switch over completely until the first update (or second, or third …), and for gawd’s sake, back up your schtuff!
I’ll try to get some blurry pictures.
Deja vu all over again.
It was October 24th, 2003, that I stood in line to buy Panther. I’ll certainly be at Apple SoHo tomorrow night, if only to keep some sense of Geek Cred. I mean, it would have been all too easy to just order the damn Tiger from Amazon, right? I enjoy a sense of occasion. I’ll even wear my Panther dog tags. To those that understand, no explanation is necessary, and to those that don’t, no explanation will suffice :-)
As I did last time, I’ll be cautious and only install Tiger on an external FW drive. I only have the one Mac here in NY, but have about 5 FW drives - easy call! I can suffer booting Panther outside the house for a little while. The word on the web points to some broken apps and some annoyances. Word to the wise: don’t switch over completely until the first update (or second, or third …), and for gawd’s sake, back up your schtuff!
I’ll try to get some blurry pictures.
