May 2008
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Williamsburg & Bushwick: The fattest neighborhoods... →
Williamsburg and Bushwick have some of the highest rates of adult diabetes in the city and eat the least fruits and vegetables, with roughly one adult in four reporting having eaten no fruit or vegetables in the past day. We all have a choice of what we can eat and we have no one to blame for statistics like this and just because there’s only fast food joints around our neighborhood, that...
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“I heard a tremendous bang, really loud and I immediately knew it was the crane....”
– Reaction to NYC crane collapse
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Wedding Planning
It’s any women’s dream to have the wedding they’ve always envision and ever since Vanessa and I got engaged, there’s one aspects about the entire planning that we’ve unanimously agreed upon and that is not to get into enormous debt with the entire celebration. Weddings can be very expensive for everyone involved, in fact, the latest surveys show that the average cost...
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“Helvetica is one of the most legible typefaces ever created, arguably the most...”
– Gary Hustwit, Helvetica
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Outliers: Malcolm Gladwell: Books →
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is,...
The Telectroscope: View London and New York. →
Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel has finally been completed. An extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope has been installed at both ends which miraculously allows people to see right through the Earth from London to New York
and vice versa.
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Iron Man
When younger, I was the kind of person that would purchase the latest comic book just for the remarkable artistic work that graced the front covers and perused the pages but never necessarily ended up reading it. I later concluded that comic collecting or reading wasn’t for me but it was this same exposure of knowing who visually the characters were that developed my interested in seeing...
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StrawPoll: Your Own Poll on Twitter →
“StrawPoll is the coolest way to follow the opinions of people on Twitter, but until now you haven’t been able to ask your own questions. With the new StrawPoll Platform, you can use your own Twitter account to ask the questions you find interesting.”
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“Your best work is produced when you’re not striving towards perfection. Being a...”
– The paradox of perfectionism, Rob Goodlatte
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Comments and Titles
When I first began blogging, aside from the daily writing, there were 2 other elements to the craft that as far as I was concern were standard to having a blog and that there was no exception to the rule. First ensuring you have an appealing title that would attract a web surfer to want to read your entries and second the availability of a comment system for readers to react to your writing. What...
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Extensive Amazon Kindle Review →
I’ve expressed an interest in the past for Amazon’s e-book reader, the Kindle and while I’ve had second thoughts of having cancelled my order a while back due to the long wait at the time, I’m contemplating replacing the order. I just purchased 2 more books and while I await their delivery, I first have to find a place at home to place them. My bookshelf is full already and...
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Behind Cloverfield
The secrecy surrounding the movie Cloverfield and the novel approach in filming is what drew me to see it in the first place but the only thing I walked away with was a headache, a state of confusion and one severe stomachache due mostly to a burrito I had eaten earlier.
Despite all of this, I rented the movie last night because I was more interested in the behind-the-scene footage of how it was...
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Gas Experience
There’s a gas station around my neighborhood that I frequent a lot because I like to think that the owner really understands the whole dance of supply and demand. What he’s generally done in the past is set the price on gas lower than you would expect in a crisis like we’re going through at the moment. I’m talking at least 15 to 20 cents lower than competition and because...
“The long-term success of the Kindle will depend on what a second-generation...”
– Analyst on Fortune Magazine
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Flickery on Your Mac →
“It bring a great deal of iPhoto-like functionality to your flickr.com account in the way it displays photos and enables you to tag & group your collection. You can also browse, view and comment on pictures of your friends or upload and manage your own photos and favorites, all from a clean and simple interface.”
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I enjoy to read and I take no offense to people who often opt to give books or giftcards for a bookstore as a present. In fact, you’ll be doing me a favor to expand my already increasing library. I may get teased at times for the kind of books that I dive into (Economics) but I’m only educating myself on topics that you normally wouldnt grasp from tv. The other day I opened a Barns...
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Narnia: Prince Caspian
There’s very few fantasy films that deserve a movie adaptation and let alone a sequel but this new movie is not one of them. To set up the film for you, imagine if you once saved a magical other world… only to return later and find that centuries had passed, and everything had changed and that’s the where the plot picks up from the first installment, which I highly recommend...
Lollipop Remix by Lil’ Wayne. Ridiculously...
The Real World: Brooklyn. For Real →
On and off depending on the characters and location, I’ve been a fan of The Real World and I was somewhat shocked-excited to read about the rumors that the next season will be hosted here in Brooklyn. Location scouting is still on going but several of the places considered like Williamsburg is just a couple blocks from where we live. Hope all goes through smoothly.
“The world is made up of two kinds of people. Those who can do a job and those...”
– John Nunemaker on working efficiently
Must Have Adobe Air Applications
I’ve come to really enjoy the ability to run realtime internet applications right on my desktop with Adobe AIR and I’ve accumulated quite a collection of apps that I frequently use and decided to share 9 of them in case you were unaware of their existence. If you don’t have AIR installed yet, head over for free download. In no particular order, these are my favorite:
1. eBay...
“Honestly, I’m not clear on why anyone opposes gay marriage. I mean, even if you...”
– Wil Shipley (via tgumbel)
Gmail Bookmarklet: Mail To →
Joen Asmussen is a avid Gmail user and he’s just made available a neat Javascript to add to your bookmarks toolbar and it will automatically launch the “Compose Email” dialog box for easy access.
Chalk Drawing Illusions by Julian Beever →
Julian Beever is an English chalk artist who has been creating chalk drawings on pavement since the mid-1990s that create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the right location. These trompe-l’oeil drawings are created using a projection called anamorphosis and appear to defy the laws of perspective.
WatchWall-E Spotted in L.A! It took a movie like Ratatouille to really win me over with the whole animated films and so I’m really looking forward to Pixar’s next feature, Wall-E. He’s already a celebrity on the blvd. (via lukees)
I'm Not a Builder
I’m not a builder. Despite the common misconception that every guy thrives with gratification of putting together stuff, I loathe the entire logistics and thought of it. Sure I enjoy the sporadic visits to IKEA and visualizing how perfect certain furniture would look in our apartment, but again, I don’t like putting them together. Our kitchen table alone took me almost 1 1/2hr and...
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The audio feature in Tumblr is one that I underuse...
WatchSpectacular video of the water show at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. We were just there last week and all I managed to capture a photo. Check out HD version.
“Jobs is a control freak extraordinaire. He’s also a perfectionist, an...”
– Inside Steve’s Brain by Leander Kahney
About the New iPhone
There’s no question that obsession for anything Apple has grown tremendously and more so with the ongoing rumors regarding the imminent release of a newly updated iPhone. It feels like almost yesterday I was sitting and standing 6hrs beside strangers at the AT&T exchanging facts and fiction about the phone and ogling at employees inside the store tinkering with the device prior to...
Introducing Desktop Vibes →
Glenn Wolsey is known for his “in-depth reviews on the latest hardware he gets his hand on, helpful How-To’s on the latest in technology, previews of new software, loving everything that is Apple” and now he has solidified his niche with the launch of Desktop Vibes. If you enjoy everything Apple and gadgets, this is an RSS feed to savor on.
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Second to flight delays, one of the most aggravating aspects of flying is being in a plane with passengers that don’t abide by baggage regulations. The general rule of thumb is for them to carry on two bags, one of which is to fit perfectly in the overhead compartment without bumping other people’s bag to fit yours and the other bag underneath your assigned seat. But some passengers...
Donate for AIDS Walk 2008 →
Just a quick reminder that I’ll be participating in the annual AIDS walk taking place here in New York along with other fellow co-workers. Any donation is appreciated. The walk is next Sunday, May 18th. Photos will be taken of the event.
Reflecting on Sin City
So I’m now just starting to get adjusted back to our time zone here in New York after a 4 day trip to Las Vegas. I’m not much of a gambler and neither is Vanessa so we never really had legitimate intentions to visit the city but I would be doing a disservice to you if I failed to mentioned that Las Vegas is not just for gamblers anymore.
To truly enjoy the Sin City, one would have to...
Inside Steve's Brain →
On our way back from Vegas, I stopped by Borders to pick up a book that would entertainment me for that 5hr flight back to New York and one that caught my attention from afar was one entitled “Inside Steve’s Brain”. Great read that really takes in a behind the scene tour of amazing accomplishments that Steve Jobs has brought upon Apple ever since he took over again. Highly...
I'm Engaged
Vanessa is no longer my girlfriend…she’s now my fiancé. Out of all places I proposed to her while we vacationed in Las Vegas. Official date for the big day has not been set at the moment. So far we’re enjoying our new titles. Here’s a sample of what I told her:
“You, Vanessa, are the key to my heart, my other half, my soul mate and I will be so happy the day that I...
“You can’t help but laugh about people that think they’re the shit...”
– Me on people with big ego
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Tip: Avoiding dents on your car
There’s way too many careless people out there that have no consideration when it comes to opening their car door and not minding banging it onto the adjacent car. While this is more likely to occur in mall parking lots, I like to think I have a theoretical solution to it and that being to simply not park to beat up cars and just next to expensive ones. For...
Times: Newsreader for Mac OS X →
In the past, I’ve occasionally had minor discussions with a coworker regarding how I opt to keep up with daily news. I read the paper online and she does it the conventional way; actual printed newspaper. I wonder how she would feel that I now use Times to keep with the news. In depth review by The Apple Blog.
Where We Do What We Do →
WHEREWEDOWHATWEDO is a community-built visual database of the spaces in which we spend our days, nights or both doing whatever it is we do. I particularly like this clean nice setup.
Vegas Itinerary
For our Vegas trip this sunday, aside from the late night parties and minor gambling, shopping and drinking, we wanted to also take advantage of visiting the outskirts of the town so we set aside a full day of just touring.
We wanted to be able to enjoy, photograph and take in the scenery at our own pace so we opted not to book any tours with Viator, with whom we’ve used in the pass, so...