| On a trip to SF, i visit Nino - nice view from his apartment - |
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| ...and interview at SRI. It looks generic for a reason - this
'research park' actually served as a model for countless thousands later -
it's the 'proto-park'. A nice view of Lake Tahoe from Jetblue on the way back. |
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| Back in NYC, cool art in the Canal St. Subway Station... |
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BFI relocates from the west coast to
Brooklyn; in fact, only a few subway stops over the east river from my LES
apartment. They hold a housewarming for the new office, with domes and
kids on the roof. |
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A trip with Deb to Staten Island, to visit the
New York Chinese Scholar's Garden.
Very peaceful, very beautiful, very relaxing - you can tell from the goofy
relaxed look on my face. |
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Now, i have a story to tell about my cell-phone. I have a
really lousy cell-phone. It's low-tech. It's slow. The
sound is terrible, and the battery goes flat in less than a day. I
have lost this phone many different times - at work, at home, in different
cities. Each time it manages to come back to me. I lost it on
Caltrain, commuting down the SF peninsula. I lost in the JFK airport,
Jetblue terminal security - and after months of phone calls where they said
they didn't have it, mysteriously it appeared in the mail. Finally i
lost it on an MTA train. Now MTA, the New York City Transit System,
does not have a lost-and-found. It would be simply impossible
for a city of 12 million people, most of them taking transit every day.
So, it would seem i had finally managed to lose my phone.
Yet, lo and behold. A call from my parents in Hawai'i. "A man
called us and says he has your cell-phone. He dialed us with it
because we were listed on the phone. He was really surprised when he
found he was calling Hawai'i from Queens!"
Sure enough, it's a very nice guy who drives the 7 train to Flushing, the
train i left my phone on. I call him and arranged to meet him at a
specific time when he pulls the train into 42nd St. station. My damned
cell-phone is back again: |
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One bit of advice about New York City. The best pan-fried
dumpling in the city is also the cheapest. Tasty Dumpling, 54 Mulberry
St, Chinatown. Order the #1 (6 for $1) and try them with hot sesame
oil. |
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A few assorted pictures to round out the month. I managed to get to
several Critical Mass rides this year, and this one on May 28 was especially
good - nice weather, a nice cohesive mass, and interesting places (from
Union Square all the way up through Harlem into the Bronx). Here is
Park Avenue that day, completely overtaken by bicycles as far as the eye can
see. Sorry it's slightly blurry, it's hard to take crisp pictures from
a moving bicycle: |
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Three people: Aura, a Romanian friend with whom i got to spend some
wonderful time conversing (in Romanian..) Patricia, an old friend from
Hawai'i passing through New York and staying in my apartment. And me. |
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