Archive for December, 2005
Friday, December 30th, 2005
Took the Day Off
Went for a bike ride because it was close to 50 degrees out today.
Polar Bears are drowning in the arctic, but its all good because I can ride comfortably in the dead of winter. I guess you have to take the good with the bad.
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
On a Branch, Blowing Minds
I had a productive morning at work. So I decided to go for a walk before getting lunch. I checked in with the wife, who has off for the week and made plans with a friend in from out of town. By the time I was off the phone, I was pretty close to the center of Rittenhouse Square.
Then over my head, flew a huge bird.
I have seen and photographed Red Tail Hawks before. but he was so big! and in the middle of center city. totally nuts.
I went back to the office to get our staff photographer. She wasn’t in. So I borrowed her Nikon DSLR with a 70-300mm lense. Here’s a slide show.
When I went back to work, I rode the elevator up to my offfice floor with a bike messenger. He was like ‘Oh yeah, I’ve seen that hawk. gutting pigeons by City Hall.’
Wonder if he is nesting in town like Pale Male…
Monday, December 26th, 2005
Nice Boobies for Christmas
Perhaps one of the best gifts anyone has ever given me, my wife bought me a t-shirt with the above screen printed on it.
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
On Marijuana and Hunger
#1)A rap about chronic(les) and cupcakes.
#2)A press release about a paper on the neurochemistry of same.
And from Alma Mater, no less.
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
NYC/New Friends/The Law
The Wife and I visited NYC on Sunday afternoon. We had lunch with a very nice blogger friends of Steph. We went to McHale’s, which was a semi regular place to visit while at the Times. The building was sold, and is going to be redeveloped, so the bar is closing. This is a shame for a variety of reasons, not the least of which: its one of the oldest bars left in that area. It harkens back to a seedier time in Times Square’s past while maintaining the modicum of dignity that an establishment can have when it caters to the theater crowd. And the exterior and interior have been in at least 1000 episodes of TV shows and movies.
Anyway, in addition to being very nice people, they do the lawyering. The funny thing is that maybe 40-50% off my closer friends are all lawyers. and I have a few friends in law school. So there was plenty to talk about like: anonymous lawyer.
Anonymous Lawyer is a blog that a close friend from high school, currently living in DC sent me one day. He said ‘go read this. tell me what you think’.
Reading it, it got me a little incensed. I mean, the character that writes this blog is a bit of a sadist. and more then little bit arrogant.
I immediately IM’d back to this friend of mine: “We should totally out this guy. It shouldn’t take that long to figure out who he is…”
The author had not yet added his “Stories from the trenches, by a fictional hiring partner at a large law firm in a major city.” tagline, so I completely bought that this was a real blog.
Although according to some attorneys it may be truthful, it is definitely a fictional blog.
Here is a piece from the Harvard Gazette on the blog. There was an nytimes piece, but it looks like a pay article now.