Archive for October, 2004
Found Items
A real assortment today:
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow : It’s a play about a wired agoraphobic adopted asian american trying to find herself and her Chinese birth mother by creating a robot version of herself. OK, that’s pretty wierd, but it won two best new play awards, so there must be something to [...]
Posted: October 26th, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Monday
No World Series tonight; tomorrow is Game 3 in St. Louis.
Some interesting links and comments:
On Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004, NYC’s subway is having its 100th anniversary (amidst depressing budget woes). Joe McKendry provides a cool look at the subway in his NY Times’ Op-ed on 10/23/04:
One hundred years ago next Wednesday, at precisely 2 [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Typhoon Taiwan!
Woooo … so I got to live through one of these things. It’s a hurricane by another name. Island wide shutdown and it hit pretty good.
Funny thing is, back home, this wouldn’t have registered that much panic or concern. I think it was a category 3 hurricane. We’ve had [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2004 under Taipei.
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Admin stuff
I’ve gotten rid of all of the spam messages that are linked. Now, comments are moderated — they won’t appear immediately until one of us approves them from the Edit menu. What a pain!
Posted: October 23rd, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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Thursday
Thanks for the regards, FC. Yep - it’s been two years at the same job. As the saying goes, time flies when… (take it or leave it).
Yankees v. Bosox - yep, I’d blame it on the pitching. Not pretty tv watching (well, not if you’re a Yankees fan/non-Bosox fan).
St. Louis has [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2004 under Brooklyn.
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