Last night my housemate Chris accepted a friend request on facebook from a girl who had just joined (and perhaps added him as a friend erroneously). While trying to figure out who she was, we saw that a number of her friends had congratulated her on joing. I’m still not on facebook, but it’s nice [...]
It’s not too surprising that this article, about the high cost of a parking spot in Manhattan, is one of today’s most popular articles on the New York Times website. It’s more surprising that parking spots are being sold for $225,000 only blocks from where my parents live.
In the article, one prospective buyer laments not [...]
I was just read some exciting news over at amazon associate central! Amazon, it seems, is one of the few retailers allowing you to preorder Leopard, (Apple’s upcoming OS), and they would love for me to pass this opportunity along to you. That’s right eager consumer, by giving Amazon $129 months in advance, you’ll get [...]
I’m back at Brown and computer science is in the air (computer science is uncomfortably humid). My own research isn’t quite ready for a blog entry, but today was a red letter day for Hutter Prize recipient Alexander Ratushnyak. What is this “Hutter Prize” you ask? Well I’ll give you a hint, it involves Wikipedia [...]
Building on a theme, my pal Dave convinced me to help relive his skateboarding youth for a journalism assignment. Since my youth did not include skateboarding, I joined him on rollerblades. We made two stops, the first was the Hudson River Skate Park. To minimize the embarrassment of being bad at skating, we got there [...]
Late last week the friendly folks at The Hub convinced me that a single speed collapsable bike (a KHS Latte) would make a perfect gift for my tragically bikeless girlfriend. Harnessing the awesome power of collapsability I was easily able to transport the bike to NYC and present it (fully wrapped of course) to its [...]