Edible Googley Eyes

Evil Mad Scientist has instructions on how to make edible googley eyes.

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/edibleeyes

Brilliant! I don’t know if I’d every be quite so commited as to make them though.

The edible flying spaghetti monster is rad.

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Memories of Yankee Stadium

I don’t remember exactly when I started watching the Yankees - sometime in middle school.  The first baseball game I ever went to was a Mets game in 3rd grade and I had cousins who sold in concessions at Shea so I think I was just going against the tide.

The first Yankees game I ever went to was during my freshman orientation week of college in August 1997. They played the Expos and lost when Pedro Martinez struck a ton of people out.  I also remember going to a game against Seattle on September 10th, 2001.  I was with Matt & Terrance Carroll and it was raining on and off so the game was postponed. We drank a lot of beer and I can remember Joe Torre and Lou Pinella kicking around the outfield before the game was rained out.

I think I remember games on the tv slightly better. I’ve never watched every game but managed to catch the most historic ones somehow. I saw: Jim Abbott’s no hitter, Doc Gooden’s no hitter, David Wells’ perfect game, and David Cone’s perfect game. I watched all the World Series wins too.

I also got to be in a movie at the stadium. Colleen, Joe, Nicole, Michelene (I think!) and I all got to be extras in Anger Management when it filmed at Yankees stadium. I’ve never watched the movie. It was kind of surreal being in a mostly empty stadium at 3am.  One of the best parts was hanging out in the bleachers with people cutouts.

I am kind of disappointed that I didn’t get to go to a game this season.

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Yankees Stadium Closing Ceremony

I just watched the Yankees Ceremony for the closing of Yankees stadium. It started off a bit cheesy as they had actors come out portraying the first team to play at the Stadium. It got better after that.

Sterling and Kay went through some of the big moments at the stadium. Then they did clips of players at each base and called some old timers up.  It was mostly people you’d see at Old Timers Day, but they also had family members representing some of the deceased greats like Mickey Mantle.  I think the part the crowd got most excited for was Bernie Williams. He was the last person called up and got an several minute long ovation. I believe this is his first time back at the stadium since he stopped playing. It was REALLY good to see him there. Bernie and Tino still look the same.

They just had a recording of Bob Shepard announcing the starting lineup.  When did Matsui start DHing again?

For the first pitch they had Jorge Posada catch and it was thrown by Babe Ruth’s daughter.

Overall it was a really nice ceremony.  I’m going to follup with a post with my Yankees stadium memories.

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7 years ago today

This was written the evening of September 11, 2001.

I can remember thinking about my day ahead as I walked down 23rd street this morning. I’d go the gym, and then get home in time for open mic night at Ristra. I walked into work at 8:45, the same as always, and sat at my desk to read email. A normal day. Around nine o’clock I heard someone on the phone say something about a plane hitting the world trade center. So I went to the MSNBC website, and looked at the headline. ‘What a crazy accident’ I thought. Minutes later my cell phone rings, my sister Natalie calls to say what happened. She can see the smoke billowing from Jersey City. She’s on her way out. Seconds later my dad calls, he’s thinks I’m still working at 5 WTC. Six months ago I was. So we talk a bit, and he says something about a second plane hitting the towers. I’m a little skeptical, because my dad has a little language barrier problem. I see Colleen on Instant Messenger; she works across the street from the WTC. She’s using her home account so I assume she hasn’t left yet. I make a comment about her being glad she hasn’t left yet. She says she’s watching the news, and another plane has hit the other tower. Dad was right. I’m thinking’shit.. this is no accident.. Vanessa, my other sisters calls me, I forget what we talked about. Meanwhile people in the office are beginning to bustle off to various areas, watching web tv, tv’s or listening to radios. They show the plane hitting the other tower. Looks of shock and disbelief mar the faces of everyone around me. We packed around a bunch of cubicles watching a television at strange angles. Realization strikes people. This is terrorism. We have an office in 5 WTC, as I previously mentioned, I worked there for a few months. We worry for our colleagues.

I return to my desk to find a bevy of instant messages. My friends wonder if I’m ok. I feel loved. We ponder who else we know who works downtown. Colleen has signed off. So several people are looking for her. I reassure them that she’s at home, and safe. Michelene im’s me. She was worried. She wants Joe and I to come to her place, if we get stuck. I ask, ‘Where is your place’. She replies, ‘236th and Broadway’. That’s 213 blocks away and the subways are closed. All of NY is now shut down. All planes are told to land. We begin to hear that the plane that struck the tower was a passenger jet. Once again disbelief abounds. Our phones are not working, and our cell phones won’t connect. My link to the world is AIM. I’m very glad I got it working a few weeks ago.

More people are IM’ing me. We happily find out that most of our friends are accounted for. CSFB announces that all our staff in 5 WTC has been evacuated. My best friend Jen, who is in Arizona for a few months IM’s me. She frantically worried about me, not being able to get through to me at work or on my cell. She too thinks I still work in the WTC. I reassure her that I am alive. She tells me that she was having a dream that she was showing someone the NYC skyline, and she points out the WTC. And she tells them they should go up to Castle Point because the view is better, and that I live there. Her father wakes her up at 7am with news of what has happened. I think this is majorly freaky.

We hear reports that one of the towers has collapsed. Incredulous, I hustle over to the TV. It’s an unbelievable site. If possible, the shock and horror of the watching crowd increases tenfold. I see a woman walk by crying. They say people saw a 3rd plane strike the tower. I can’t believe that one of the towers is gone. It’s hard to tell from the TV footage, most of the buildings are obscured by smoke. It’s getting difficult to watch TV. I return to my desk and talk more to my friends about it.

We got an announcement saying that we could leave work, but our building was a safe as anywhere. I believed it. So I went back to watch more tv, and got back to see the 2nd tower fall. It looked like a movie implosion. At this point I really had to stop watching the TV. Everyone who I talked to was totally freaked out by then. I don’t even remember when the announcement about the pentagon came.

I had to convince my friend that he shouldn’t walk to 236th Street. So we figured we’d try to take the ferry. But of course I couldn’t call. So I went to lunch. And everything in the cafeteria was free. That was nice. So I went back upstairs, and decided to try the ferry with Joe & co. Walking through NYC was absolutely surreal. There were amazing numbers of people walking in the streets, and no cars. None. People walked around in a daze. I saw people with gas masks around their necks, crying on people’s shoulders. The shelves of stores were empty.

In tragedy there is some good. When we finally got down to 12th Avenue and 23rd Street, I was amazed. From 23rd street down to the Trade Center, there were ambulances lined up. They were from places all over the tri-state area. I saw some from around my hometown. We finally hiked down to the ferry, and the number of people were staggering. People were lined up in 4 snaking lines stretching 12 blocks. Somehow we got on the ferry in 40 minutes.

As soon as we pulled out of the dock and you could see where the World Trade Center stood, you could hear the gasp of the entire boat as they said ‘Oh my God’. It was just a giant black cloud. I couldn’t believe it wasn’t there. It seems like some David Copperfield magic trick. Getting off the ferry into Hoboken was eerie, something like ET. As we walked off we saw people dressed in special suits with mask. They shuffled off anyone from the WTC into detox. In the bus station there were hundreds of EMTs where they setup a triage. I looked around for Christina, figuring as a Hoboken emt she’d be there but I couldn’t find her. At the entrance of the street, stood an army soldier.

But we had made it home. We stopped by Colleens to give her a hug. Home is good.

That night I read the following on some new site, and it really struck home since the Pearl Harbor memorial is one of the most moving things I’ve ever seen:
“It is the largest terrorist attack ever on the United States. And the casualty count will dwarf even that of Pearl Harbor.”

The day after 9/11 I brought my camera with me into work. I have no idea why I went to work that day. Anyway I took some photos in the city and Hoboken, and you can see both the mass of dust and smoke from where the towers stood as well as the shock and sadness on everyone’s faces. I uploaded those photos to my flickr account so you can see them if you like.

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Quote of the Day from NYTimes

“With 47 gold medals through Friday afternoon, China led the gold medal count by 16 over the United States and by 39 over Michael Phelps.”

 Sports Juggernaut in the Making, China Throws Down the Gauntlet

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cool stuff on nytimes.com

I was just reading an article on nytimes.com and there was a word I had never seen before (putsch). I went to copy it to put into m-w.com to look up the definition…when something cool happened. Another window opened up with the definition of putsch.  Apparently when you double click on a word on the site it opens up a reference query search. I love this. I wish I could do this with print books.

FYI here is the definition of putsch.

putsch also Putsch (pʊch)
n.

A sudden attempt by a group to overthrow a government.

[German, from German dialectal, from Middle High German, thrust, of imitative origin.]

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Lord Baltimore Makes an Appearance

My Lord Baltimore Hibiscus finally has it’s first flower. There are tons of buds all over so shortly it will be gorgeous! This flower is about 8″ in diameter. Now I’m just waiting for the Plum Crazy Hibiscus to bloom - it has buds all over it now. And for the dahlias to bloom. I planted one last year and I think it didn’t bloom until mid to late august.

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Biking at the Beach

Sunday morning the family went down to my sister’s place in Long Branch. We got out the bikes and rode down to Ashbury Park. We had brunch at a place on boardwalk called Dorians. I think technically it’s in Ocean Grove. I had some really yummy apple walnut pancakes. Then we hopped back on our bikes and rode back.

We just beat the crazy thunderstorms. As we were riding back it was rumbling thunder and lightening behind us. We had to strap the bikes onto the rack as it started to pour so I got a little wet, but at least we got in before the hail started! My bike is awesome. I finally gave up on finding the helmet I want in a shop and ordered it.

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Pinky Poo

I was in the patio garden last night when I spotted Pinky taking a nap in a basket. I thought at first that it was Harley who’s an outdoor kitten.  Pinky is a little more than a year old but she’s still a little cat.  She’s totally scruffy and adorable.

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