Category Archives: rant

Know when your bus is late with live transit updates in Google Maps

Ironic to read as I stand on the corner, straining fruitlessly for the sight of anything useful coming my way… http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/know-when-your-bus-is-late-with-live.html Noticeably, but not unexpectedly, absent from the list of data providers is New York City, of course… That ride, … Continue reading

Life Just Got a LOT More Interesting…

I could not possibly have ordered my Verizon iPhone any earlier, and now it is here… Good-bye olde Crackberry, you’ve served gallantly, rest peacefully… Top⇪

Want to Get Away?

Check-out this video…  pop-it to full-screen… Apparently a real-time, 10-minute, single video shot, from Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium… Happy relaxing, Atg Top⇪

Bye-Bye Keyboard!

I can’t say I’ll miss you all that much, but we have spent a lot of time together. In fact, the very first PC I had a chance to actually play with used Windows 3.1.  And it had no mouse…  … Continue reading

A Voice from My Past

My iGoogle has a Quotes of the Day panel that has a list of random quotes from all kinds of people, often good for a chuckle. Today’s quote is from an “old friend”, Mr. L. M. Boyd: “There are 350 … Continue reading

Quiet Car, I Think I Love You

On Amtrak‘s Acela, bound for Boston, and could not be enjoying myself more… Yes, the wi-fi is horrifically slow (although my connection says I 100% of 54Mbps), but at least the car has wi-fi, the seats care comfy, with drop-down … Continue reading

MTA: You Suck

I can’t wait to be an old man sitting on my front porch telling my great-nieces and -nephews about the good old days when city transportation systems used to provide, you know, “transportation”… “LIMITED” as defined by MTA apparently means … Continue reading

Afghanistan: Hope for the Future, in the Past?

A recent blog post from Jeffrey Zeldman turned me on to an article titled Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan.  How encouraging.  If not desperately disappointing… I don’t think its the western garb that makes me think things look so … Continue reading

When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions Videos

For all you aspiring astronauts out there (or any other space/science-fiction junkie such as m’self) comes a new Discovery Channel video series, When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions Videos. Watch video footage from all stages of the space program, … Continue reading

Hate Crowded Subway Platforms?

Me too! So, after joining a friend in Washington Heights to watch Iron Man 2, this subway platform sure was a welcome (if not strange, and maybe just a wee bit scary) site! The movie was sort of okay, felt … Continue reading