Some photos taken on Tuesday near Battery Park City and the greenway along the river. This was to burn off the remaining film in the roll for the graduation photos. It was a nice day, in any case, and it was the first time I’d been in the Winter Garden since before 9/11. [...]
It’ll be “that’s Doctor Gracie to you!” from now on. Graduation exercises for SUNY Downstate were held this past Monday at Carnegie Hall. The walk across the stage to have the green hood draped across your shoulders is the conclusion of four long, hard years of work: blood, tears, sweat and toil (the [...]
Last week, we had the last of the wedding receptions that we had spread out over six months. This was primarily for East Coast family and family friends who could not make it to California for the actual ceremony, and was perhaps the most formal of all of these: there was a wonderful, delicious [...]
Here’s the slide show we put together for 6-month/for-family wedding reception/Grace’s graduation party lunch thing. There are a lot of pictures:
There’s currently some Epson ad talking about the longevity of their inks, so that embarrassing photos can be preserved for future generations. This is possibly the wrong way to think about it: we’re [...]
I’ve been spending far too much time recently playing Bejeweled on my Palm. I really should be finishing The Iliad, a goal I set for myself after seeing a trailer for the new movie last year; I’m only on Book IV, and Diomedes has just swindled some guy of his fancy gold armor.
But it’s [...]
Some notes on the JFK AirTrain and JetBlue from the past week:
The JFK AirTrain project came online earlier this year after many, many delays, including a fatal accident during testing. The AirTrain is basically the airport’s inter-terminal shuttle, extended to reach the Jamaica LIRR/subway station on the E line, and the A line JFK [...]