They have these little TV screens in our elevators. They flash advertising, stupid week old news clips, celebrity birthdays, word-of-the-day, the usual elevator crap. It’s intensely annoying, but there is no way to stop yourself from looking at it. But the time you realize you’re reading that today is Calvin Klein’s 62nd birthday, you’ve already [...]
As you recall, I got royally stomped at a poker a while back. I’ve decided to give it one more shot tonight not that I think I’m going to do better, but what the hell. It’s only money. So in order to try and not suck quite so hard as I did on the first [...]
One of the things that I learned from my grandfather was the benefits of taking the “scenic route”. In his estimation, taking the long way around was always better, especially if there was something interesting to look at along the way. In his case, taking the scenic route home meant driving with his grandchildren up [...]
Chances that no matter what you did in the back seat of the bus on your school trip to the Grand Canyon you weren’t getting the full effect if you weren’t driving on Interstate 69, America’s most dirty and shameful highway. But fear not Americans, because our legislators will save us from depravity. If John [...]
HILL JOHN MASS If this was the only address on a letter, to whom would it be delivered and where? I found this particular little thing is a Bill Bryson book called I’m A Stranger Here Myself.
As part of my commute each day I take the 6 train down from East Harlem to Grand Central. Once at Grand Central I have a couple of options to choose from to complete my journey to Times Square and arrive at my windowless cubicle: take the shuttle train and be there in 1 minute [...]
We know that there was a cab ride. Clearly we got back to the apartment somehow, but it is also pretty clear that no one paid for the cab. Troubling. I was expecting the cab driver to be sitting outside when I left in the morning, bleary and hungover, but when I stumbled out into [...]
Ladies and gentleman, I am happy to announce that the massive charting/table project has come to an end (almost). The charts are done, the coding is done, and more importantly, the autorun CD works! The links are correct, the images are all in place, and everything seems to be working. I was horrendously scared that [...]
Jonathan Gayman is a St. Louis photographer who specializes in corporate, commercial and food photography. Exhibit5a was Jonathan's first blogging adventure but is largely dormant at this stage. For more recent postings check out Jonathan's new St. Louis food blog called Shoot To Cook