To give some perspective of how ancient the Sun is, I created this Sun clock. It was inspired by recently reading one of my favorite sites, APOD, and seeing them mention the Sun’s age is about 4.57 billion years. We just shrug those numbers off because of how incomprehensible they are. Maybe this clock will help. Click here or the image below to view it.
Jen over at the gothamist picked up the Crosby story and helped get the word out about Joey’s realty woes.
The bad news is Crosby Connection (on crosby) closed. The good news is they’ve moved! They are now located within Parisi bakery, just 4 blocks east of their old spot. (290 Elizabeth St)
There are a few good things that come from the move, including bigger sandwiches, fresh bread right from the source, and possibly some pizza. Being indoors will also help keeps their expert sandwich making fingers warm and toasty too.
Carved out of a literal hole in the wall is a spot in New York City that makes, hands down, the most delicious sandwiches. In that 45 square foot space (which costs $700/month), you’ll find Joey Cramarossa, a staple of SOHO’s lunch menu for the last 8+ years. That’s all about to change because he’s about to lose his lease on Feb 1, 2008.
The man who delivers scrumptrulescent $6 sandwiches and free bottles of Poland Spring is being bullied out for the construction of….well nothing. The manager and lackey of the building, Robert Ross, seems to have his knickers in a twist and is forcing Joey out of the space. Joey believes that if the actual owner of the building, a Mr. Heller of Heller Realty was actually informed of the situation he wouldn’t be forced to shut it down.
Joey has done hundreds of mitzvahs throughout his reign as sandwich king. He lets people pay later and says you’re “never short” when buying a sandwich. He’s also consistently fed the homeless and 5 years ago, while walking to work saw a kid lying in a refrigerator box with a dog. Joey took the kid (Johnny) under his wing, gave him a job, and he’s worked at Crosby ever since.
Joey thinks that the little guy can’t take on big business and big realty. I told him not to underestimate the online community. So I’m calling for everyone out there to help save this truly amazing gem. Here are a few ways to help:
BMH Realty Ltd d/b/a Heller Realty
745 Fifth Ave Suite 1250
New York, NY 10151
If you’re in the neighborhood, Crosby Connection is located at 172 Crosby St (Map) and they’re open in the afternoon till “4ish”
I decided to create this in the style of a “New Yorker” cartoon.
Jay DeDapper read my post about hacking a New York city taxi and did a more investigative piece about the potential unauthorized access. The Taxi and Limousine Commission claims everything has been fixed and is highly unlikely to happen again. However, Jay and his producer both had error messages in their cabs within the past week (and I’m sure others have) too.
Watch the video here or by clicking the screenshot below:
You can also read their article about it too.
Hey AT&T (formally Cingular)
Isn’t your whole schtick; it’s your minutes, keep them? I personally think that’s quite a nice feature.
But what about my 200 text messages? The same philosophy should stand with unused text messages month to month. Get on that please.
This one is inspired by my building neighbors.
I just got off an infuriating call. I was transferred 6 times to different departments and people within adobe. The one common theme: They didn’t even know they had a product called FlashPaper.
The question was simple. Can I programmatically edit the SWF file that FlashPaper creates? In other words, is there some type of FlashPaper actionscript?
Not only did they not understand the question, but 2 of the 6 people I spoke with didn’t know what FlashPaper was. Two other people immediately transferred me. One other person was inexplicably from “licensing”. The final guy tried to transfer me again and I hung up.
I couldn’t get too angry, because here is the list of products they have. Call tech support about anything other than Photoshop or Flash and you’re in for a transferring marathon.
Here is the comments section of a recent article on digg. Almost every comment is censored away.
As part of dontcensorme.com, I created a digg comments section that shows censored away comments aren’t always censored for the right reasons.
I forgot to share this one. I took this photo in Kona, Hawaii and fits pretty nicely into the webshots genre of photos. I think the guy is holding a baby and it watching the sunset with his wife. Cheesy, yes — but I didn’t plan that detail.
Click the image for my full-res shot.
