Why doesn’t Grand Central have any benches or waiting rooms… In a place where people can still get cell signals?
On the “crazy train” from Grand Central. Ain’t nothing like being serenaded by a bunch of drunk guys at 2:30 in the morning.
Such a beautiful day out! @thefunscape
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Why doesn’t Grand Central have any benches or waiting rooms… In a place where people can still get cell signals?
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On the “crazy train” from Grand Central. Ain’t nothing like being serenaded by a bunch of drunk guys at 2:30 in the morning.
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Such a beautiful day out! @thefunscape
@seankovacs guess that’s pacific time for ya..
So in the past few weeks, I recently got a new laptop, and while I’m installing this and that on my new Mac I am also researching into productivity software and tech tools, an area I am wildly interested in. While I’ve been doing that, I’ve came across (or rather re-came across) the blog service [...]
There’s this exhibit at NYC called “Play me I’m yours.” These folks put 60 pianos across NYC in different boroughs, where randos can come and play the piano in public spaces. I saw one in the NY Public Library terrace and one in Time Square. Some kid was playing Hungarian Rhapsody. Oh jogs back good [...]
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@seankovacs guess that’s pacific time for ya..
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So in the past few weeks, I recently got a new laptop, and while I’m installing this and that on my new Mac I am also researching into productivity software and tech tools, an area I am wildly interested in. While I’ve been doing that, I’ve came across (or rather re-came across) the blog service Tumblr.
I first stumbled across Tumblr because my friend was using it, and I was curious. This is around the time I was starting up this blog again so new blogging tools piqued my interest. It seemed pretty neat, had a lot of features already embedded. I ended up going with WordPress because I could install my own instantiation of it on my own server and therefore had a more customizable product–and I am ALL about customizing.
On the other hand, it seems to provide a decent feature set–hi res image sharing, audio posts, very mobile friendly… so some good stuff.
Recently, I began reading blogs and digging around into blogs that could potentially interest me. I then again stumbled across quite a few blogs that were hosted on Tumblr. That caught my eye again–I remember this service from way back when. So I started looking into it.
I still think for the most part, this WordPress thing I have going on is probably sufficient, but I will try Tumblr for a little bit. I will blog there about things related to Play–fun toys, fun things to do, fun in general. We’ll see how it goes.
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There’s this exhibit at NYC called “Play me I’m yours.” These folks put 60 pianos across NYC in different boroughs, where randos can come and play the piano in public spaces.
I saw one in the NY Public Library terrace and one in Time Square. Some kid was playing Hungarian Rhapsody. Oh jogs back good memories. That was the song I played as a sophomore in high school. Anywho, I think it would be cool to play Piano Man at as many piano spots as I could find. See if strangers will stop by and sing with us. Then tape that and make a compilation of Piano Mans across NYC.
Anyway, another melody that popped into my head. I got a Macbook Pro. I’m playing around with it, and one of the softwares that comes with it is Garageband, which allows me to write music. I think it’s a meager replacement for Finale, but it’ll do for the time being.
A few weekends ago, a bunch of us went to the Come Out and Play festival. It’s a festival of street games, water gun fights, assassins, tag, weird new sports, and all sorts of crazy funness. Here’s a clip! Come Out and Play 2010 from Nancy Liang on Vimeo. It also inspired me to endeavor [...]
I hum things in my head sometimes. So now, I’m writing down the lines. They are just simple melodies rendered through midi files. Listen for the potential, not for what you actually hear. Thing One: Thing Two: Thing Three:
Went to Sleeping Giant to hike, get sweaty, then jump into the river. Then went to Indian Wells and jumped off of some cliffs. I made it up to the 20 foot cliff, some folks went to the 25 foot one. There might have been one jump higher. It’s awesome, definitely going back! Adventure Time [...]
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A few weekends ago, a bunch of us went to the Come Out and Play festival. It’s a festival of street games, water gun fights, assassins, tag, weird new sports, and all sorts of crazy funness.
Here’s a clip!
Come Out and Play 2010 from Nancy Liang on Vimeo.
It also inspired me to endeavor to Walk on Water, which is a post to come. Here’s a teaser…
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I hum things in my head sometimes. So now, I’m writing down the lines. They are just simple melodies rendered through midi files. Listen for the potential, not for what you actually hear.
Thing One:
Thing Two:
Thing Three:
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Went to Sleeping Giant to hike, get sweaty, then jump into the river. Then went to Indian Wells and jumped off of some cliffs. I made it up to the 20 foot cliff, some folks went to the 25 foot one. There might have been one jump higher. It’s awesome, definitely going back!
Adventure Time from Nancy Liang on Vimeo.
That’s right. I finally went skydiving. It was breath taking. Literally. Last Sunday, I finally got the chutzpah (well, the cash) to go jump out of a plane. I’ve been wanting to do this for my birthday since my 18th birthday (you have to be 18 to skydive). But alas, I’ve been too poor ever [...]
JH: the wikipedia page for little house on the prairie demonstrates everything that’s excellent about wikipedia JH: ie, wildly shifting and hilarious changes in tone: JH: The depth of her involvement, and the extent of her influence on the theme and content of the books, has been the subject of some debate in recent years, [...]
Me: you know bit.ly? I just submitted a link to be bit.ly’d Friend: huh? Me: i’s like tinyurl Me: and out comes http://bit.ly/c9cock Me: o_O Me: noooooooooooo Me: ok Me: changed it Me: http://bit.ly/rem1000 Friend: i am so confused nancy
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That’s right. I finally went skydiving. It was breath taking. Literally.
Last Sunday, I finally got the chutzpah (well, the cash) to go jump out of a plane. I’ve been wanting to do this for my birthday since my 18th birthday (you have to be 18 to skydive). But alas, I’ve been too poor ever since. This is the first year I actually have discretionary income (last year was getting-out-of-debt year). So into the sky I went. Then I dropped.
It was a blast! My stomach went up for a few seconds, then it was just hanging out in the air with wind blowing and enjoying the BEEEAUTIFUL view. I even flew through a cloud. It was about a minute of freefall then 5 minutes of parachuting down and more beautiful view. The landing site looked itty bitty from way up 14500 feet. But we made it.
Tandem is great because you don’t really have to do anything besides enjoy it.
FUN!
What’s next? Hang Gliding. Yes, I want to fly!
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JH: the wikipedia page for little house on the prairie demonstrates everything that’s excellent about wikipedia
JH: ie, wildly shifting and hilarious changes in tone:
JH: The depth of her involvement, and the extent of her influence on the theme and content of the books, has been the subject of some debate in recent years, but almost all Wilder scholars and her biographers consider that the writing of the books was a tense but ultimately effective continuing collaboration between mother and daughter — Wilder writing the books, Lane editing them.
JH: So Laura, along with Pa and Ma, and Mary and baby Carrie, move to Kansas. Along the way, Pa trades his two horses for two Western mustangs, which Laura and Mary name Pet and Patty. When the family reaches Indian Territory, they meet Mr. Edwards, who is extremely polite to Ma, but tells Laura and Mary that he is “a wildcat from Tennessee.” Mr. Edwards is an excellent neighbor, and helps the Ingalls in every way he can, beginning with helping Pa erect their house.
JH: Laura had always heard from her family that the little house was “40 miles from Independence,” which would have put the house approximately where the town of Nowata, Oklahoma, is today. It was, in fact, about 13 miles (21 km) from Independence, not 40 miles (64 km), and the reason for this rather large discrepancy is not known, although she may have misheard or mis-remembered “14 miles” as “40 miles,” while the surveying techniques of the day would in fact have measured it as being 14 miles (23 km).
JH: like — all three paragraphs CLEARLY came from wildly different consciousnesses
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Me: you know bit.ly? I just submitted a link to be bit.ly’d
Friend: huh?
Me: i’s like tinyurl
Me: and out comes http://bit.ly/c9cock
Me: o_O
Me: noooooooooooo
Me: ok
Me: changed it
Me: http://bit.ly/rem1000
Friend: i am so confused nancy
