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Yesterday, my new bicyle was stolen from me.
But I was lucky to have it in the first place.
And one day, I’ll be able to afford a new one.

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This post was the losing end of a bet.
This year, my Memorial Day was spent playing a full 3 games of Monopoly, 2 games of Scrabble, and 1 game of Balderdash.
My friend AJ won every single game by a landslide… even with the odds against him, playing against 6 other players in each game.
In turn, [...]

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So it happened.
Two nights ago, after trying to install the latest version of iTunes, my computer hard-drive crapped out on me.

After trying to restart — the thing just hangs with the Apple logo and a grey background.
Trying to start it up as an external hard-drive (hold down “T” when you startup) alerts that disk is [...]

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Last month (Juanuary 2008), my mother forwarded me an email from a friend of hers, pointing to an article in the New York Times from October of 2006.
The article was about a revolutionary new way of baking bread; one which required little yeast, no kneading, and produced near flawlessly tasty bread time after time after [...]

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If you’re a total geek and live in the Big Apple, check out New York-based Caroline McCarthy’s summary of events this weekend (I’m sure she’d publish it to the nextNY blog, if she didn’t work for C “stands for Copyright” NET).
… of course she missed the most important event this weekend:
Dodgeball 2.0 kicks off its [...]

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It brings me great joy when one of my non-techie friends starts to blog. I have another major friend-blogging announcement to make soon, but now I want to point everyone to my buddy Dion Roy.
Dion is one of the co-founders of AMP3PR, which is a very cool boutique lifestyle PR firm in NYC, which you [...]

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This just announced (OMG!): Perez Hilton will be coming to New York next Thursday for the launch of alley-based nightlife social networking site PMbuzz.com at The Grand.
According to the press release,
The party, sponsored by Glaceau’s new “vitaminenergy”, will take place at The Grand, one of NYC’s most exclusive clubs. This will be the inaugural [...]

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Johnny Bench was the man. Of course he still is a man, but during his days as catcher for the Cincinnati Reds, he was THE man.
Shortly after I was born, my grandfather, Robert Westheimer, went to a Reds game and got me a ball signed by the All-Star catcher. That was his last year playing [...]

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If any young, professional New Yorkers are looking for something fun to do early July, check out the Met’s Young Members Party.
The party, for members of the museum ages 21 –35, will be on Thursday, July 12, 2007 and the dress will be “Summer Chic,” so I already have my outfit picked out.
Anyway, details are [...]

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A blogger I have covered a lot on my own blog is Bob Arihood, author of Neither More Nor Less, and photographer/anthropologist/story-teller of al things East Village, and specifically the 7th and A intersection around T Square Park.
Well, major media has found Bob and the cast of characters he writes about and hangs out with [...]

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