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freedom tower construction

freedom tower construction Originally uploaded by derek7272

Perodically I am going to post pics of the Freedom Tower construction, taken from my kitchen. You can see where it is just slowly rising, next to the red crane.

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income disparities in dating

The Times has a story about income disparities in relationships:

For the first time, women in their 20s who work full time in several American cities — New York, Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis — are earning higher wages than men in the same age range …

The shift is playing out in new, unanticipated […]

nelson blue

So on Thursday I went to Nelson Blue, New York’s first kiwi bar by the South Street Seaport, about a 10 minute walk from my new pad. It is a sleek, beautiful bar that was quite busy around 1 a.m. It is named for Nelson, New Zealand, where owner Pauli Morgan hails from. I walked […]

cleartype

If you have an LCD monitor and are running Windows XP, I want to strongly recommend switching your default font rendering to Cleartype. It is much smoother and looks better. To do this, simply right-click on the desktop, then select properties, then effects. Then where it says “use the following method to smooth edge of […]

dancing with my aunt

Derek and Mary Dancing Originally uploaded by awrose

at brother’s wedding

Palm Tree

Palm Tree Originally uploaded by awrose

Here’s a photo my brother Adam took, not far from where we stayed in Po’ipu, Kaua’i. (aka Kauai). He has a D70 Nikon camera while I was just taking photos with my little cameraphone, but here are some of mine. I’ll stick the favs. after the jump.

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i am back, and i am terrified

Photos of Hawaii to come … but I just want to state for the record that if the BoSox blow the division, it will be just as big a choke as the Yanks coughing up their 3-0 lead in 2004. Gaaaa!

Wedding

Wedding Originally uploaded by derek7272

Brother Evan and new wife Jenny

arizona memorial

Multimedia message Originally uploaded by derek7272

I ended up visited the USS Arizona memorial with my German friend I met at the hostel. Very understated and elegant. A Japanese Zero scored a direct hit on the battleship during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, killing 1,177 men. The battleship was never salvaged […]

Waterfall

Had a very nice five-hour hike today … Hawaii is LUSH. Then fell asleep on the beach. Checking out USS Arizona memorial tomorrow. Waterfall Originally uploaded by derek7272

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hi from waikiki

Hello! I am in the Internet room at the Waikiki Beachside Hostel in Waikiki. Just arrived this morning; L.A. was great but this beach is amazing. Originally the plan was to go hiking in Hawaii with my then-girlfriend before hooking up with my fam for the wedding next weekend, but a wrench got thrown into […]

greetings from sunny L.A.

I am hangin’ with Dylan here in the Venice Beach section of sunny Los Angeles. It is very dry, cool and beautiful here. I’d only been to L.A. once before, for a weekend. Yesterday Dylan, his wife Phoebe and I went for a very long run through Will Rogers and Temescal state parks — along […]

goodbye to all that

Sooo, I am at the Coffee Pot across the street from my apartment writing this, as my computer is all packed up. I am waiting for the moving truck to come — they went to Ninth Street rather than Ninth Ave. Grrr. Just a few more hours in Hell’s Kitchen, then I’ll be Tribeca boy. […]