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Category Archives: nyc
Moving Métro
One difference between the Paris Métro and the subway in New York City is that the doors of the métro do not automatically open. On the older cars, there is a little latch that you have to flip to get the door to open, and on the newer cars there is a button you press. [...]
Updates coming soon…
I’m changing things around behind the scenes, so hopefully I’ll start providing more “content” here soon, and hopefully the impending visual alterations will be welcome.
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Badenov wikipedia
I’m giving a talk tomorrow (info/abstract below the fold) which required me to find an image of Boris Badenov (don’t ask — it’s to illustrate an example slide). I went to his wikipedia entry, and found, to my delight, that someone has taken the time to create a long list of disguises that Boris has [...]
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Klute
I just watched Klute last night. Great cinematography. It brought back memories of NYC from when I was small, and you had to wear your purse across your body for fear of “snatchers” and Times Square was seedy and dangerous and there was still great art on the subways. Anyway, two things: Jane Fonda had [...]
a wine post
A friend of mine works at a wine shop in Chelsea called “Appellation” which carries mostly organic and biodynamic wine. Because I’m frequently in the area, I often drop in to see her and pick up a bottle. I end up getting whatever she recommends because I trust her taste, and it gets me to [...]
nearly, up and down
I was listening to NPR as I drove to New Brunswick the other day (I know, so typical!) and I heard about Eliot Spitzer’s plans for his inaguration. The ceremony is scheduled to take place at noon on January 1, after a more official midnight swearing-in. The event is open to the public, but it [...]
metaculture
I have a subscription to the New Yorker, and as I can never keep up with the relentless weekly onslaught of issues, I often stuff an unread one in my bag when I know I’m going to be standing on a train. Yesterday I was in the subway reading Anthony Lane’s review of the latest [...]
UPS
Apparently when a package gets delivered from California to Manhattan, it gets to Newark (close to Manhattan), then goes to Philadelphia (south, further from Manhattan), and then back north toward New York City. This is perhaps because they take “3 Day Select” delivery very seriously — if it were delivered on Tuesday, the morning it [...]
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