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We’ve determined the tree needs to come down the next day or two, as it’s dropping needles on its own. So Adrienne suggests we take a quick photo with the cats. I’m somewhat embarrassed by the quality of it (out of focus, poor lighting etc.), but I hope you’ll enjoy nonetheless!

To keep up with Little D, here are some snaps from our lazy weekend, which included non-productive house shopping, some grilling, biking and general lazying-around.

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Note to self, keep the cats away!

Hope you all found your baskets!

Sometimes I see how people accessorize and wonder what it reveals about their personality. Take, for instance, this large-headphone, gold-Casio-Databank-wearing woman I’ve seen twice on the train:

I remember saving $40 to purchase my plain-black-plastic banded (which was notorious for cracking and breaking) Databank. Those were the days. Could calculate, could store the phone numbers of my 50-closest friends (yeah, I don’t think I ever filled it), could store all my appointments… so cool, and yet agonizing to use. Since then I’ve moved on to a good old Timex Ironman, which pretty much stays on me 24/7, and well, takes a licking and keeps on ticking. In some ways, I guess the Timex – durable, reliable, just sporty enough, not too complicated – may be is a good reflection of me. Or maybe not, who knows. Anyway, what are you wearing? 🙂

There’s not much ‘natural beauty’ in our small corner of the world, but Mother Nature blew through a few days ago, leaving several inches of snow all around. I noticed this completely undisturbed creation while taking the trash out.

The snow was completely smooth, the pattern created by the airflow through slots in the table. Then, I noticed it was smiling at me!

I barely remember the brief family visit to NYC years ago, but I remember it feeling very dirty. It probably was, and seemed even more so to a niave young Midwesterner. I know the metropolis has been cleaned up significantly since, but it still surprises me to see the lengths we go to keep appearances up; to make things look authentic, historic, natural (for a city). There are crazy examples of the same but different thing happening in other contexts, but to see such an effort to hide cell phone antennas, still makes me pause:

Find the cell phone antennas on this historic NYC building!

I wonder what kind of radiation those people on the top floor are getting.

I hope not, since this was my idea. Tonight is another broadcast in WBGO and NPR’s series from the Village Vanguard in NYC. I heard a set last night, and the music should be great. You can tune at the regular spots, but tonight’s twist is we’re adding video. Just a static shot in a dimly-lit room for now, but we hope it provides even more ‘added value’ as the marketers would say. Check it out tonight – 9pm EST.

I still had to do a good bit of cropping on this capture.

I had the opportunity to go to the absolute top of the Trump World Tower this (very cold and very windy!) morning.

Click here to open a new window with the big(!) 7.2MB 360-degree panoramic pic.

And check Focus to the left for a couple more ground pics.