THIS IS NOT FUNNY

Friday, June 13, 2008

Good Bye Kinkos

No more waiting for my prints while five employees stand in the back talking trying not to look at the counter to see the growing line - and when they do make it to the counter, with eyes rolling saying, "Next..." acting as if they are the world's authority on desk top publishing insisting they can't find the job you sent on their internet site six hours ago and that you are going to have to wait until........aaaaaaaakkkkkkkkk!!!!!!! I bought a large format printer and have cut out the chain.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Telescope Takes a Long View, to London

Before sunrise on Tuesday morning, a strange sight began to appear on Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn: a six-foot-tall metal drill bit seemed to emerge from the wooden pier, covered in genuine East River mud and revolving slowly beneath the glow of the Manhattan skyline. On Wednesday it will grow into a 12-foot-tall industrial-looking behemoth erupting just in front of the quaint Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory. And on Thursday? Imagine an enormous brass and wood telescope, 37 feet long by 11 feet tall, connected to a mirrored dome, like a child’s drawing of something that will see into the future. Voilà: the Telectroscope will have materialized.

A fanciful device born equally of history and imagination, it will visually connect New Yorkers to people in London, where an identical scope will sit on the banks of the Thames in the shadow of Tower Bridge. Spectators who step right up will have a real-time, life-size view across the pond 24 hours a day, until June 15, thanks to ... no spoilers, yet. (The queue will generally be first come first served, but to make an appointment to connect with a friend in London, visit telectroscope.net.)