Big Secret!

Big Secret!
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Just before I took this, the kids were in an even tighter huddle, all intently looking at something they obviously wanted to keep to themselves.

Definitely not kosher!

Definitely not kosher!
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Tuesday morning delivery. As the truck was unloading two groups of school kids went by; the younger ones were more inquisitive while the older ones (low teens) were more squimish. Both groups stopped and stared; not unlike your petting zoo in the burbs.

Anti-Gravity Crane

Anti-Gravity Crane
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

On Madison Avenue this crane seems to have conquered gravity. Either that or its owners have discovered the ever elusive skyhook.

Steamy Pike Street

Steamy Pike Street
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Actually we do live in sin city; notice the steam from hell leaking into the atmosphere.

New camera, Canon A95. My Olympus 2500 is getting long in the tooth. I have taken approximately 25,000 pictures with it and either the photoelectric stuff in the camera is getting old or the memory cards are loosing pixels, but I think the picture quality is degrading. I would get new cards, but they don't make the 64 meg smart cards anymore so I a SOL as far as that goes.

Thank god that at least some of the christian fundos of the Bush administration are leaving, most infamous Ashcroft. I have the feeling that he was left high and dry by the administration on this terrorist nonsense and the torture memos. As far as I could tell he was a nonentity during the re-election campaign; almost not heard from.

Now we must get rid of Rumsfeld and his henchmen in the Pentagon.

Rudders

Rudders
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Another walk to South Street. The rudders of both the Wavertree (background) and the Peking.

Karl Rove on a Gay Warpath

Read in the NY Daily News that Karl Rove was definitely going to push for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages in this term. Wouldn't it be great if anyone who has slept with him, male or female, came forward so that this nazi could be neutralized. I have found that those that protest as much as him and his cronies and other christian fundos, are really gay and are trying to cover it up by being more anti-gay than the average person; "...methinks he doth protest too much..." (apologies to W. Shakespeare's Hamlet).

Christian Fundos are right here in New York

I am at the 34th Street Library (34th and Madison), and as a break from what I working on, I looked at Eric Hancock's blog and clicked a Thursday November 4th link he referred to (My God -- this guy can really drive [Windows Media format).
The NYPL is blocking the site because it:
"The site you are trying to access has been blocked by The New York Public Library.
El sitio que está tratando de acceder ha sido bloqueado por la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York.

Reason: 
Motivo:
The Websense category "Sex" is filtered. URL:  http://media.skoopy.com/vids/vid_00314.wmv"

The page goes on to say that: "In order for the Library to remain eligible for certain federal funding, commercial filtering software has been installed on the Library’s Internet connection. The filter is designed to protect against visual depictions of obscenity, child pornography, and materials that are “harmful to minors” and is required by the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA). All Library users are expected to adhere to the Library's Policy on Public Use of the Internet.

Wired Library computers have options for users 17 years of age or older to disable the Internet filtering software to permit access to the Internet for bona fide research or other lawful purposes.

Contact the Library at filtering@nypl.org to request that a site be unblocked or to suggest that a site be blocked. Other feedback regarding filtering is also welcome."

I have read stories of local librarians engaging in subtle sabotage of the Patriot Act, but I guess New York librarians are just big pussies and have no backbone to stand up to the christian fundos. Another step closer to the "Talibanization of America".

South Street Seaport

South Street Seaport
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Multi-masted "Peking" and one of the old tugs at South Street Seaport Museum. I was down there to sit, read and have a smoothie from a stand on the third floor, but alas it has closed. On that floor they have deck chairs on the East River side of the Pier and it is nice to sit there and read.

IQ's Sallie Mae Info

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Ok, the guy won. But let us not forget what he stands for. He stands for the 17th century and witch hunts and Christian fundamentalism. He is against anything and anyone who goes against his strict reading of the bible. He is an isolationist to the nth degree and has no use for people who do not see that his cowboy mentality is the right thing to have.

Let us not allow him any quarter, but keep his feet to the fire. Let us write to him every time he mispronounces a word, fails to answer a question posed to him and most importantly lies or misrepresents the truth. We, the American People are not as dumb as the he and his henchmen (who by the way look like they want to wear the ss on their lapels) have played us to be. They put up scares before the voters and played to their most base fears. They convinced the middle americans that "they" were coming to get them and that the solution was a continuity of leadership. Unfortunately they have not exercised any leadership in their first term, only cowardice. This cowardice was presented under smoke and mirrors. This will come back to haunt him as everything that happens now is his responsibility; no more blaming the previous administration and unfortunately it will haunt and hurt us.

I can't believe that this fucking moron has been re-elected. So much for my faith in the american electorate.

What a bunch of fucking losers we are.

Wartime Footing?

Wartime Footing?
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Again along the Hudson. I can't understand what these guys are protecting me from; or are they just floating around and getting their rocks off by having a machine gun on the front and back of their boat.

I certainly don't feel any safer knowing they are guarding a walkway along the Husdon (North) River.

While Lawrence Lee is helping me recover all my past posts on my Eastbroadwayron I am using this one. It has some nice features. I like the matchup with Flickr for images and the ease of changing the basic look of the website, and the error checking.

Cruise ship going up the Hudson

Cruise ship in the river
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Battery Park city, along the promenade. This cruise ship was sailing up the Hudson.

Election Day 2004
The polls are still open in NY and across the country. For the life of me I cannot understand how it can be close. Every time I see george bush and hear him I cannot for the life of me see what a supposed 50% of the population sees in him. I only see a person surrounded by henchmen who want to complete the talibanization of the US. I think that if he wins we will see an attempt to form a mini theoracy in this country.

I have some faith in the wisdom of the American electorate, I hope I am proved correct and that we vote this bum out of office. I also feel that if we don't it will literally blow up in our faces.

Market on Arthur Avenue

Market on Arthur Avenue
Originally uploaded by ronon44.

Was up at Arthur Avenue in the Bronx last Saturday. I have lived all my life in New York City and this is the first time I went up there. It is what I remember Mulberry Street to be like; not like the theme park it is now, but a real neighborhood.