The lack of public toilets in Manhattan is a regrettable failure of modern civilization.
Especially in a tourist city, a walking city, a shopping city - the situation is pretty, ahem, piss-poor. According to the New Yorker, back in the 30’s, New York City was fairly well equipped to handle the situation - however, rising [...]

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EnergyPods at MetroNap.
Milk Bar and ultraviolent beating not included.

When the MetroNaps service opened in the Empire State Building a few years back, it received a lot of press.
Strangely, for a $14 service in the heart of New York City, not a lot of journalists seem to have bothered to simply go over there and take [...]

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Lights Out Sleep Mask, Black Just $9.99 at Amazon.
My first trip on Virgin Atlantic left me very impressed.
A brand-spanking new 747, built-in seatback entertainment center, and a little bag of goodies waiting for you on your seat when you boarded.
My favorite goodie was a cheap but functional sleep mask - you know, the kind Esmerelda [...]

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I can’t really complain, this has been one hell of a mild winter in the metro area.
But its not just the temperature and snow that gets in my craw over Winter, much more it is the lack of daylight. Specifically, the cold darkness when you go home from work every day.
There is very little that [...]

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I was watching a few minutes of ‘The Longest Day‘ while eating lunch today, and shortly after Eddie Albert was upended by a Nazi grenade, a commercial came on for good ol Kaeopectate. It showed a guy on a train - wait - thats a Metro-North train! I would recognize that crummy old wood veneer [...]

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Today I had a meeting with the blogger who writes Trainjotting. I have read Trainjotting for a while and have always been impressed with the high quality, focus, and frequency of posts there. We’ll call this blogger TJ I emailed TJ and set up a meeting so we could get to know each other.
The [...]

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On Christmas Eve I got the ‘itch’ in the back of the throat.
The all-too-familiar itch, which, by morning, will certainly be a full-blown sore throat, which will last a day, and then soon morph into a full-blown winter cold.
And that is exactly what happened.
Now, back in college, I used to look forward to colds. I [...]

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