Archive for May, 2004
TGIF - Three Day Weekend Time!
Uh hmm. Finished reading Entertainment Weekly - pretty good issue. I want so much to dislike anything about the new movie, “Day After Tomorrow” (anything depicting the destruction of my hometown has earned my ire of late the last couple of years), but there’s enough reporting that “Day After Tomorrow” is more cheese [...]
Posted: May 28th, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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“The exodus is about to begin…”
“The exodus is about to begin,” noted Jim Watkins, the WB 11 news anchorman (aka Kaity Tong’s co-anchor), while he introduced the tonight’s news segment on Memorial Day/summer driving trips. Yep, that’s right, it’ll be Friday of the Memorial Day weekend and people are off on vacation. Silly me, I have to [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2004 under Manhattan.
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Strange Weather
This is just plain freaky. Saturday/Sunday was summery. Today is April weather - in the 50 to 60 degree range, partly cloudy/drizzly/increasingly overcast/expected hail/thunderstorm/etc. Huh? Where oh where is spring?
I got around to finally watching an entire “24″ episode last night - wow, that’s quite a season finale. I kept [...]
Posted: May 26th, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Ch Ch Ch Changes
Responding to YC’s entry, I was working on tweaking the new template. The old font was Garamond, and I put it back that way. The Veranda stuff is the default. The sans serif font is now Futura (for those that have it — otherwise it’s your generic Sans system font), which I think I [...]
Posted: May 26th, 2004 under Info.
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Gum, Now Available Over the Counter
Yahoo! News - Gum Returns to Singapore After 12 Years
To think that we have prescription drug problems — because the US badgered Singapore about it during a free trade agreement, now it will allow the sale of “therapeutic” gum — but the stuff costs $11 and it’s a controlled substance — you have to [...]
Posted: May 26th, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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