The NY subway systems are horrible. I know that people say we have the oldest subway system and its hard to maintain, but that still doesn’t justify how bad it is. I’m used to routes being changed on weekeneds and stuff like that, but it should not take over 40 minutes to go 5 stops when it normally takes less than 10 minutes.
NYC should take an example from Asia. Their systems are much for efficient and cleaner. Its definitely less frustrating than the NY system.
I went to North Fork Wine Trails in Long Island yesterday with my girlfriend. We went to a couple of wineries to sample what they had.
At one of the inexpensive wineries, I overheard this fellow talking. He siad that $35 for a bottle of wine is too expensive. Now there is nothing wrong with that if he doesn’t like wine, but the guy was talking like he was some wine expert. He was trying to sound all sophisticate while sipping his inexpensive wine and talking about how amazing the wine is.
This amused me quite a bit. I’m no wine expert, but I was able to taste the difference between the expensive wines and the inexpensive wines (without looking at the prices, in case your thinking prices affected my perception of the wine). So either this guy has really bad tastes, he’s the and cheapest wanna be I’ve ever seen, or more likely both.
People act so funny when they try to be something they’re not.
I now some people are frugal, but today I saw something that just makes me go “wow.”
I went to the NYC Japan day fair and then walked around the “regular” street fairs. One of the booths was for kettle corn, and they were giving out free samples for all of their varieties of kettle corn. Most New Yorkers take a handful to taste, and most don’t buy. It’s free so why not try some right? Nothing wrong with that.
Well this one old lady comes there with a shopping bag, takes a sample container and starts pouring as much as she can into her shopping bag. Seriously, how cheep do are you to do that? If you like it, buy it. I could not believe that this old lady was that cheap. Of couse the vendor saw her do this and stopped her, but not before she got a decent amount of kettle corn in her bag.
I would just be plain embarrassed if I was caught doing that but I guess some pople have no shame.
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything. Life’s been a bitch. Anyhow, updates will be a bit sparse for a while, but I’ll try to update once in a while.
I’m going a a friend’s wedding this weekend. That should be nice. Also need to add some pics from the US Open that my friend pat took. Other than that, not much is going on except work. I’ll update more later. Just posting soemthing so no one thinks I’m dead.
It finally looks like they will define what a planet is. The International Astronomical Union members will vote on Aug. 24 to accept or reject the following definition of a planet:
A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither a star nor a satellite of a planet.
If it gets approved, we’ll have 12 planets in our solar system with 12 more that need more review before being considered a planet. I think we should leave the term “planets” just for the 8 planets we all agree on.
You can read more from space.com.
It looks like diamonds are no longer a girl’s best friend. According to a survey by market researcher TRU, it looks like women are more tech savy than most people thought. Almost half of them even do their own PC troubleshooting. For gifts, it looks like they would prefer tech gifts rather than jewerly.
It found that given the choice, women would opt for tech items rather than luxury items like jewellery or holidays.
The study found 77 per cent of women surveyed would prefer a new plasma television to a diamond solitaire necklace and 56 per cent would opt for a new plasma TV over a weekend in Florida.
Now if I can only convince my girlfriend to stop liking diamonds.
Here is the link to the article.