The Gulf of Mexico on a Saturday afternoon.

The Gulf of Mexico on a Saturday afternoon.

John John

I swear. This boy cannot take a bad picture. It pisses me off, since I usually look like shit in candid pictures.

Houston & Lafayette Streets Today

Photoshop phun

Snapped this walking up Broadway after leaving Ryan's apartment on the Upper West Side. The original is pretty blurry because I can't take night pictures for shit yet, but Photoshop filters come in pretty handy when you want to touch something up with a minimum of effort.

Fog on Laurel Street

Signs of progress on St. Charles Avenue

From the Times-Picayune:

"The first step in the long road to restoration for the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line is set to take place today, as transit officials bring back daily service between Canal Street and Lee Circle for the first time since Hurricane Katrina.

Scheduled for 10:30 a.m., the ceremonial trip around Robert E. Lee's statue marks the completion of the initial phase of a three-part reformation project expected to last at least another 15 months.

Under plans still being developed, the Regional Transit Authority hopes to reopen a second leg of the historic St. Charles line, between Lee Circle and Napoleon Avenue, by next summer. The final segment, which will restore service from Napoleon to the terminus on Carrollton Avenue, likely won't be finished until spring or early summer of 2008, officials said."

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Truck accident

My co-worker, Katie, and I came across this around 12:30PM at the intersection of Magazine Street and Jefferson Avenue. We were on our way to Roly Poly for lunch.

Apparently, this truck was trying to turn onto Magazine Street from Jefferson, and the driver wrapped the trailer around an electrical pole and broke it in half! How fucked is that?

Visited states update

This is what my visited states map used to look like:


Since November 23, 2006 (Thanksgiving Day), it has looked like this:

New camera

My new Nikon S9. After reflecting upon my previous post wherein I griped about not having a digital camera, I went and bought one.

Actually, I do have a digital camera: a Minolta Dimage 7 SLR type. It's pretty sweet, but far too bulky for going out on the town and capturing spontaneous shenanigans with your friends.

I took this shot with the work camera, a Canon PowerShot A75, also a nice camera, but again, way too bulky for casual picture taking.

June 10, 2006 - Flashback

This is an image I recently pulled off my cell phone to clear its memory for my trip to Denver. Of course, I did not figure out how to upload images from my phone to Sprint until the trip was pretty much over, so I didn't get the chance to document anything there! Dumbass. I will have to rely on friends' photos once again. Most of these of course, will be pictures of them doing fun things, since they are all so completely self-absorbed (no, but really, in a good way).

I intend to get a small digital camera to rectify the problem ASAP.

Well, anyway, anyway, this image is a perfect example of a cooler packed prior to going tubing or on a float trip. Being from NYC, I was not familiar with this particular activity: floating on an inner tube down a river while the whole time drinking beer (and smoking cigs, if you do (I do)), periodically stopping off at the shore to eat and throw away the accumulated cans.

Now that I have lived in the South for over five years, I have gone tubing many, many times. The first summer I went, I went almost every weekend for a good six weeks or so because I had so much fun the first time. With a big group, it is even more fun. The last time I went (when this picture was taken) was June 10, 2006. It was the one and only time this past summer I had a chance to go. If I am still living here next summer, I will be sure to get out on the water as much as possible, especially with any out-of-town guests (hint, hint) that may come to visit. See? Not only can you get fucked up on Bourbon Street when you come to New Orleans, you can get fucked up anywhere!