NY Pictures

alternateorg on February 19, 2002

…Will be up tonight, tomorrow at the latest.

We had a great time, got to see friends and some landmark-type stuff. Great food as always (except for maybe a little midnight White Castle run…). Tai got a $10 ‘Tag Heuer’ watch and I got a cool pen set from the MoMA. We hung out on the lower-east side a bit and hit a few bars the first night and I must say, Disco-house just isn’t my thang. C’est la vie.

As expected, navigation while downtown was a little hard, without certain twin-tower shaped compass points. It was very eerie to be in Battery Park and not have them towering above you. I took some shots of the empty airspace and to say that it’s sad is obviously a gross understatement.

I am and probably always will be a sucker for less-than-advertised tickets for Rent on Broadway. The Nederlander theater is such a cool place and Rent always puts a smile on my face. And I’m not retarded, I’m rhyming. Man.

I actually had more conversations with cab drivers this trip than I’ve had any other trips combined. Weird.

Security was hella thick and Laguardia had just stepped it up for our departure Sunday afternoon. Tai’s feet and shoes were searched and my things were thoroughly extrapolated from my bag. At least the guy had the decency to put it all back in. When I went to help him, he freaked out and said, “Dude, the FAA is right there…” and when I turned to look, I saw a man in fatigues with what looked to be some sort of machine gun. At least inside the terminal I felt safe.

So the trip was a success and New York for less than $500 total is always a pleasure.

WooHoo

alternateorg on February 15, 2002

The Simpsons are going to Paris!

(Only substitute ‘The Simpsons’ for Alternate.org, and Paris for New York.)

Whoops

alternateorg on February 13, 2002

“He threw a hand grenade at the security forces, but it exploded beside him,” the official said.”

Not a solid throw by this young Al-Qaeda suspect.

This ain't going to make me any more popular, but…

alternateorg on February 12, 2002

Okay, on Camworld today, a reader writes in about eTrade’s preview of their new site:


I guess it’s time for me to find a new brokerage and bank…

…Because the new-fangled site does not support Netscape 4.x on his Mac. Do people seriously consider dropping their fucking bank because it doesn’t support a god-damned 2-year old browser? I mean, jesus. I think that might mean it’s time to readjust your priorities, when using IE5 (by just about all means a better browser, on the Mac) is just too impossible to consider, but changing banks based on something so arbitrary is a snap.

Must be rough..

alternateorg on February 10, 2002

Okay, so I’m heading out to NYC this weekend, and so I’m looking for something cool to do, and I run into a post somewhere about a good DJ I’ve actually heard of playing one of the nights I’m there. Now, of course the only sort of experience I have with being out is mostly confined to Denver’s arcane rule that at 2AM, any and all alcohol serving must stop.

In New York, the aforementioned DJ doesn’t even start playing until 3AM. Ah, what life in a real city must be like.

Kung-Fu Flying

alternateorg on February 7, 2002

A man tries to break into the cockpit of flight to Argentina “kung-fu style” in order to “talk to the captain.” ( My advice, knock). Then the co-pilot wacks him blunt ways over the head with an ax. For all the shit I go through at the airport on the rare occassions that I fly, this illustrates that it really makes no difference at all. This security thing is a farce. Guys wth C4 in their shoes and people just plain fucked in the head will always sneak on board. Detaining old women and making me toss my nail files before I get on the plane is all for show.

mlife?

alternateorg on February 4, 2002

Does anybody remember the mlife ads from the Super Bowl? Not only were the ads perplexing, but the website is too. I made my obligatory website research check and I still have no idea what it does.