Archive for March, 2004

Orkut Connections

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

Google has a newish service called Orkut, which is a much speedier version of Friendster and connects me to a whole lot more people. Currently with two friends on my direct network I am connected to 169,658 people. And lots of them are hot. I started down a rabbit hole clicking on friends of friends [...]

More On Elevator Etiquette

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

When you are running for an elevator, it is not strictly good form to put the hand holding your cup of coffee into the closing doors. This could result in the doors bashing your coffee, which could also result in spraying coffee on the other people who are already in the elevator.
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Follow Ups

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

A couple notes on thing’s I’ve posted about before:
Alistair Cooke Dies at 95: Man, what a bummer. You finally retire after 58 years then less than a month later you up and die. I hope I wasn’t sending any bad vibes because I thought he was already dead when I wrote about his [...]

Hello India…um…hello?

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

I’m sitting here trying not to get too pissed off but…but…erp. TO FUCKING LATE! I’m waiting for my friendly internet company chat support person (Jonjie) to answer my question. He seems to be having trouble finding the page in the manuel with the stock answer to refer me to someone else whom I can only [...]

CSS Frustration

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

When I was a kid, there was a parody of the 12 Days of Christmas – one of those parody Christmas songs that children find so amusing. Instead of partridges, pear trees, gold rings and the like, each day of Christmas brought some other form of misery, like putting up with in-laws, nightmare shopping experiences [...]

Weatherproofing What?

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

Ok, this just struck me as odd: For a long time, the billboards around my office have been showing Al Roker wearing various raincoats and such for the company Weatherproof. This makes sense.
But now, he’s up there in another ad for Weatherproof weating a Hawaiian shirt and a sun hat. Neither of which will protect [...]

Another Reason To Avoid Chickpea: Internet Illiteracy

Monday, March 29th, 2004

You know, when I first wrote a post about the falafel joint on St. Marks place, I didn’t have anything against the place. To begin with anyway. It just looked sketchy to me. Later, I actually went and ate there and wasn’t impressed at all.
I suppose I am only egging them on at this [...]

Connie and Carla

Monday, March 29th, 2004

It is always worrisome when Hollywood trots out ideas that have been successful in the past and produce a remake. Ninety percent of the time, these productions are half-assed and while maintaining basic plot devices, do not have the wit and zing of the originals. The movie Some Like It Hot is one of those [...]



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Jonathan Gayman is a corporate photographer and design consultant in New York City. He also likes to talk a lot of smack here on Exhibit 5a.

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