After reviewing weblogs, I have a further note to help clarify search results reaching this site: This weblog is not nor has ever been the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice: … Continue reading »
I’ve noticed that occassionally my web site is found by people searching Google with odd or alarming medical issues. Most recently, I’ve seen searches having to do with long … Continue reading »
There was a sort of Gen-X litmus test, where we’d remember where we were when we heard the news that the Challenger had exploded on take-off. It was our … Continue reading »
I was looking for a property sales database to figure out how much my neighbor’s apartment is worth, and how much a combined apartment would sell for, and came across … Continue reading »
New York City Subway Track Maps This shows the location of switches, terminals, etc. For example, the 72nd Street IRT stop allows switches between local and express only before the … Continue reading »
Holy crap, this method worked! I finally got around to trying it, and the article’s method for finding the last digit actually gave me something to go on. … Continue reading »
So we were rumaging around my parents’ house on X-mas, because the snow storm had kept us in for the night. I find a few old Tolkien books in … Continue reading »
This past Wednesday was the first white Christmas in the Northeast in many years. A noreaster blowing through the region dumped a bit more snow than expected: northeastern Queens … Continue reading »
Egads! Asian taxonomy. As a side note to the current car entertainment, this is where I first encountered the term “rice” as it applies to cars, but the term didn’t sink … Continue reading »
Here’s a link for the MTA neighborhood maps, those really detailed street maps that show such things as subway station entrances. You can find the poster-sized maps near the … Continue reading »