Author: Sean

Last night 69 people were stuck on the Roosevelt Island tram for 12 hours. Today’s shot was taken after the first person rescued was placed gingerly on the ground. Her immediate reply, “WHERE’S A BATHROOM?”

Check Gothamist’s coverage for real shots. I lived beside the tram for three years and I don’t have a single picture of the damn thing.

Ildi and I were watching the coverage when the trapped people received the first aid basket with food and water. Ildi immediately remarked, “I wouldn’t drink anything!” It made me realize that men and women really are on two different worlds. Theirs is a nervous place of small bladders that lead to desperately trying to get aisle seats on planes. Ours is a space of trying to legally (or illegally) pee in public as often as possible. Had I been on that tram, mom and dad could have proudly watched me on live TV retrurning my water to the East River.

So far not one article has addressed the bathroom issue. C’mon journalists. The people want to know.

[UPDATE: From my logs, I just discovered that I am on the front page if you Google “Roosevelt Island Tram bathrooms.”]

Site of the Day: My friend Vinta is from India and describes the driving there as chaos. This video confrims it.

The first time in the spring when that smell, the combination of chill and sun along with pollen, hits my nose and the twitter of birds returns, I think of one thing: trout. Saturday smelled like trout season, which tradtionally starts somewhere around tax day. I couldn’t get out to the stream, but I did hike up to Urban Angler to get my license so that I am prepared to go at a moment’s notice.

Urban Angler is the city’s premeir flyshop and I drool over all the new toys and gadgets everytime I am there. While I was waiting for the elevator to leave, I scanned a bulletin board they have displaying pictures of customers with trophy fish. Also tacked on the board was an article I wrote about fishing guide Brendan McCarthy , who operates out of there. I was a little bit overjoyed to see the piece on the wall.

If you haven’t gotten your license yet, you should. Only $19 and you want to be ready when it’s time to head out. Here are some place in NYC to get fishing licenses:

– Urban Angler 5th Ave at 25th St
– Capitol Fishing Tackle W 23rd btw 7th & 8th Ave
– Orvis 5th Ave at 44th
– TK other places, someone email me some places.

Also, take the time now and fill out your DEP Access Permit form so you can fish New York City Water Supply reservoirs and lands. This one is free and lasts five years and opens up a ton of lakes and streams near the city.

I hope you got out this weekend to enjoy it. Spring only lasts for two weekends in New York City and then it is hot. Damned hot. I made it out for some street hiking and captured today’s shot with the Flatiron at my back. The bus was zooming away from Broadway and down a side street. I felt bad for the folks trapped on the bus because I am sure the guide was saying something like, “Look there is the famous Flatiron Building. The original skyscraper was erected in 1902 and…oops, now it’s gone. On your right now, though, is a Starbucks.”
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Site of the Day: The Wiki on the Flatiron

Like the Dude that abides, I like to bowl. We had a company outing yesterday to Chelsea Piers to hit the lanes. After three games and many pitchers, my team lost in the finals by just a few pins.

Here are five other activities/things that are often deemed low brow (like bowling) that I enjoy without irony:

– Fishing
– Shooting things (especailly with potatoes)
– American Idol
– Sex in cars
– Jerry

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Site of the Day: How to make an Easter turducken, via Boing Boing.

Today’s holiday pic submitted by Matt.

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Sean’s advice for the day: Don’t forget that you never have a mouse in your house. You have mice. A lot of problems are like that. They travel in groups.

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Site of the Day: From Kerstin, buy a satanic lemon on eBay.

I was walking to work during a beautiful Spring day fretting over the fact that I had no picture to post. In the past along the same walk I’ve forced the issue shooting water tanks, Hopper sunlight, and Christmas decorations. I was looking for something similar when I heard the hovering helicopters (a sound that will always make me uneasy). Five fire trucks waited for me at the corner of West Broadway and Houston. A Mercedes and a Jeep Cherokee had collided, spinning the Jeep through a construction site, over a service ditch, and into a bistro. Several people were hurt and being carted away. So I took a picture. I hate rubber neckers, especially that one in the mirror.

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Also on the walk on Prince between Sullivan and Thompson , I saw a beautiful woman in a tan jacket with gray pants and sneakers fall down. She dropped her beige bag and a blueprint she had been holding rolled into the street. She quickly got up and hurried down Prince, every ounce of body language screaming embarassment. I’m sorry I didn’t get a picture. If you know her, please make fun of her.

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Site of the Day: I hadn’t reached anywhere near my potential because I was too busy making other assholes rich.

Or at least my world, which is The World, if you read Descartes. Here they are. I have been experimenting with Movable Type’s index templates and also the RightFields plugin. The result is that page with a thumbnail of all the old Pics of the Day. Still a few bugs, but it is fun to browse.

On Saturday, I stopped by Grassroots to buy my friend Jess a gin and tonic for her birthday. I told her I had no present, but that, “You look thinner today than any time I have ever known you.” It is true (she does look super thin these days) and I discovered comments like that (along with gin) result in hugs, as pictured above. The rest of the night I discussed Lost, scuba diving, oncology, married men, the Marvel Universe, asian girls who only date white guys, and hair dye. I left for home while five drunk and dangerous women went to terrorize a diner. I like birthdays.

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Site of the Day: For NYCers, see all the fact about your building or a potential new apartment.

Super duper busy at work this week and thus STC.com has suffered. When I’ve got nothing, I always have monkeys.

Here are some Sites of the Day:

– Bacon-wrapped Maple Pork Loin
– Curse of the Were-Rabbit
– 2006 NFL Schedule released. Steelers get it started on Thursday on NBC!?! We fear change.
– In time for summer, the Lazy Drinker–a drink making machine.
– Really cool tire swings.
– A finally, my Friday friends, I majored in Developmental Biology and Genetics, so I pretty much think the Creationalists can suck it (unless they are Pastafarians). Because of this, I seriously love me the fishapod. He’s here too, but this is the best picture of him (or her?!?!).

And I’ll I got was this lousy cigar. Actually, it’s a decent cigar and I will be smelling up Soho with it after lunch.

Friend Dave and wife Danielle had a lovely baby boy named Trajan (after a benevolent Roman emperor). See lots of cute pics at his site.

UPDATE: We did smoke them.

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Site of the Day: If I ever get a yard, I’m definitely going to build/grow a grass armchair.