http://www.thisnylife.com/blog Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:06:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, some people think that people die in threes, I suppose that's kind of true, but people die everyday. I wonder why people don't say "isn't it funny how people dies in 4's?". Is it famous people who dies in threes? Anyhow... we all lost three people within the last few ... http://www.thisnylife.com/blog/?p=114 Here is my first attempt at posting some video. This was taken with a low-end Nikon point and shoot that we got using some rewards points. Strangely the video is recorded as Quicktime .mov files and got some odd little artifacts during the conversion process to flash video. Anyway, this to me ... http://www.thisnylife.com/blog/?p=97 I got an amazing gift from my wife for Christmas, a Nikon CoolScan 5000ED film scanner. This scanner has the ability to scan individual slides as well as strips of film. I'm very excited to revisit somethings that I have not seen for sometime. Here are a few initial scans ... http://www.thisnylife.com/blog/?p=81 Amazing that this song was written in 1931 and still holds relevance today.  I heard Tony Bennett sing this on Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..., which is such an incredible show. Even the guests who I didn't think I would enjoy (Elton John), turned out the be really interesting. The show ... http://www.thisnylife.com/blog/?p=80 http://www.thisnylife.com/blog/?p=79 The love of my life: photos: g.e. masana http://www.thisnylife.com/blog/?p=75 I really feel like I need to get a handle on my old black and white photos. Here is an attempt at scanning from negative. http://www.thisnylife.com/blog/?p=72 Yeah, when I was only 17, I could hear the angels whispering So I droned into the words and wondered aimlessly about till I heard my mother shouting through the fog It turned out to be the howling of a dog or a wolf to be exact. The sound sent shivers down my back but I was drawn ... http://www.thisnylife.com/blog/?p=70 Been busy busy busy being sick sick sick... but thought I would post something, anything... Oh sweet sweet hockey. The Rangers are winding down their season with about a month to go and sit firmly in 6th place in the Eastern conference. The top 8 teams make it to the playoffs. ... http://www.thisnylife.com/blog/?p=69 Well, I'm here at work, which has been kind of unsettlingly quiet for the past few weeks and typing this post when I should be doing my status report. If a tree fell in the woods... I don't know. We went swimming in the building pool this Saturday and it was ... http://www.thisnylife.com/blog/?p=68