Yesterday we drove all around Westchester County looking for an apartment. We’d intended to check out the four apartment complexes listed in Mt. Kisco, NY first; however, after arriving and having a bit of lunch, we discovered that none of them were open on the weekend. How incredibly lame. What kind of apartment manager closes … Depressing Search Results
I’ve written before about our search for a new apartment. We thought we’d found an acceptable apartment in CT; but we got a weird and bad vibe from the management after following up on it. So we scratched that option. Yesterday we explored what may be the perfect town: Rhinebeck, NY. The apartments we saw … Perfect Town
Our lease expires at the end of March. And we’ve decided that we really don’t want to live in Jersey City or anywhere else in New Jersey. Without even trying, I could fill page upon page with all the things that are wrong with New Jersey — starting with the taxis that don’t take credit … Moving to Connecticut?
In Cringley’ s latest article, he takes on the way business uses PowerPoint presentations. It’s about time someone spoke up about this practice of using slides in lieu of real information. Read The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint by Edward Tufte for a sobering analysis of how the truth typically gets mangled on its way through … Cringley on PowerPoint
A swan…
The Center for American Progress has an interesting piece about the differences between Vice President Cheney’s claims regarding Halliburton and the facts. It’s very enlightening…
In Thomas Friedman’s latest editorial for the NY Times, he cites Bush’s “Budgets of Mass Destruction” (BMDs) as the real campaign issue on which Democrats should focus. The Bush team’s real vulnerability is its B.M.D. — Budgets of Mass Destruction, which have recklessly imperiled the nation’s future, with crazy tax-cutting and out-of-control spending. The latest … Budgets of Mass Destruction
Icy Hudson
This old factory along Washington Ave looks like it’s about to fall down any minute.
The mercury has risen all the way to 35°F. That’s a veritable heat wave by comparison to recent temperatures. I’m going to wake the slumbering wife (but from across the room where I’ll be safe) and suggest we go for a walk.
