Archive for August, 2006

Why Craigslist is a great company

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Lizz and I started looking for apartments. Last time we looked, I reported a few scammers/sketchy listings to customer support at Craigslist and had a few exchanges with Craig. I just sent this one directly to him and he got back to me in less than 10 minutes, AFTER fixing the problem WHILE […]

Mob scene

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

The mass of trailers, vans and cables blocking the street this morning on my way into the office has become familiar: film shooting. As I walked by a trailer with “Meadow,” “A.J.,” and “Janice” on the doors, I realized I was walking through a Sopranos shoot. As I crossed the street, I caught […]

I’ve (not) got the power

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

As Ed points out, New York is the current hot-spot in power usage in the US. While our neighborhood hasn’t had power issues yet, our building has the last few days. Tuesday night our entire building (a circa 1900 5 story tenament structure; 14 apartments) lost power for over an hour. Yesterday I […]