Stefan's Stuff

Nothing fancy, but while walking down Elizabeth Street, I came across this cat under a Fruit bin.

Maybe Memorial isn’t the correct word, but I can’t think of another. Andrew Morgan was riding a Bike at Houston and Elizabeth when he was killed by a truck. This White Bike was left to mark it.

As discussed on Gothamist.

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For a Cat, the Entire World is their playground. We can learn a lot from them.

Can you spot Harry demonstrating the proper use for a Box?

These were taken over the weekend, But I’ve been too busy to post them.

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Not sure which is worse, the threat of terrorism or the threat of overreaction by the Authorities. The above photo Op was the police detaining some Tourists. This was from Sunday’s Tour Bus Scare. If I had to take a guess, the NY Daily News saved this for Tuesday to continue to Milk the situation to sell News Papers.

Above Image from Gothamist who got it from AP.

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I wasn’t going to write about this but after typing it up, I realized that writing it helps.

One of the worst duties of a pet owner is that you sometimes have to put them down. In 1989, I paid for Martin at a Pet Shop around 60th and Lexington Ave. Now, 16 years later, he took ill. Specifically, his Kidneys stop working and he stopped eating and drinking Thursday night.

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According to the Daily News article,

A Gray Line dispatcher called 911 and told cops the men had backpacks and their pockets “stuffed” – a possible warning sign of suicide bombers, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.

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That’s just Perfect! That describes Me!!! I’ve Got a Backpack stuffed with LOTS of innocent things, I wear cargo pants an Often stuff my Ipod in one pocket *and* my Camera in the Other!

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I was just wondering “What Cool Stuff Can Google Do Next?” when I read this on Slashdot.org! Hybrid Maps overlayed on Satellite images…

Here is 11 Madison Avenue Near Snack Shack on 23rd street…

Image from Slashdot.org

According to Slashdot, Microsoft Frowned at for Smiley Patent.

From the ZD Net Article

The patent, which was published by the US patent office on Thursday, covers selecting pixels to create an emoticon image, assigning a character sequence to these pixels and reconstructing the emoticon after transmission.

The implications of this is more than a little odd. The funny thing is Microsoft keeps saying their for Innovation. I like to code with disctintve comments in PERL:

while(<STDIN>) {
   chomp;
   # Clean up the string...
   $_ =~ s/^\s+(.*?)\s+/$1/;

Do I have to worry if someone Patents my style of comments? Weird.

Image from Slastdot.org

As per the NY Times.
We live in scary times, and obviously, something needs to be done but this? This may be Pandora’s box cracking open. A few loaded questions:

A little out of sequence, but I liked this one the best.

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