Category: Personal
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Where’s Chris?
I’ve been pretty busy this past couple of weeks — this is why graphpaper.com hasn’t been updated in a while. Work, house guests, travel, feeling under the weather, spending quality time with loved ones, and a near-tragedy in my family, have taken up so much of my time that I’ve not been able to finish…
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Reaching Higher Ground with Google Maps
The ever-excellent Google Maps mashup Google Pedometer has recently added an “elevation” feature, allowing you not only to see how far you walked, ran, cycled, or drove, but also to see how far up and down you went along the way. You simply click the “elevation” link and it displays a scrolling iframe with your…
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I Thwarted the NYPD’s “Terrorist Tactics” this Morning
One year ago, the New York Police Department started a program to randomly search the bags of commuters as they enter New York’s subway stations. The program basically puts a couple of police officers next to the turnstiles, where they randomly select passengers to subject to a search. My subway station seems to be an…
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TimesSelect: Dead to me, so far…
Have you seen me? I haven’t ready any of the New York Times Op-Ed commentators in at least six months, ever since they put them behind the pay-only TimesSelect wall. I have no idea what any of them are saying these days. I think I saw that they’ve got Ted Koppel in there now, too.…
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Mom’s Design Advice: Take One Thing Off
Prince in “When Doves Cry”. He may have taken a minimal approach to some of his music, but his wardrobe, well, that’s another story. My mother gave me some good fashion advice once when I was an overdecorated punk rock teenager. She delivered it kind of indirectly, me being a boy and all, telling me…
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My New “Sketchbook”
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The WordPress blog admin “Dashboard”, where I am currently typing these words. If you look closely, maybe you can see what kinds of things I might be posting here in the future. I have what I fancy to be interesting ideas just about all the time, and usually when this happens I like to start…
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Morning Subway Demographics
Because I often work very late or come in very early to the office, I have been able to observe some demographic patterns on the subways in the AM hours. It’s interesting to see how the ethnic, class, professional, and gender makeup evolves as the morning hours go by. (Please forgive the generalizations inherent in…