Author: Sean

Moving is a curse I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy. It’s even worse when a box that should contain tasty snack foods must be repurposed to hold your lazy boyfriend’s stuff. What is “Seanstuff?” I’m not sure, but if you could bottle it and sell it, you’d make a tidy sum.
So I helped my girlfriend move this weekend. The whole thing could not have gone better. After two weeks of Noah-like rain, the sky cleared just as the movers arrived. Ildi hired Oz Movers and they impressed me more than any moving company I have ever been involved with. I definitely plan to use them for my next move.

– Oz Moving

Oh, the move went awesome and Ildi’s new place rocks. Do stop by.

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Site of the Day: From the Gaping Void, Open Source Filmaking.

Jerry sent me a link to this photo showing the designers for the new King Kong movie. You can see from the photos on the wall that they used my beloved Snowflake (aka Floquet) as a model for the screen ape. It also appears that they used Todd.
Related Links:
– The link Jerry sent.
– Jerry’s Page
– My first time with Floquet.
– Floquet gets cancer and then passes.

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Site of the Day: It’s been awhile since he has rapped with us, here is Jim Anchower’s Homepage.

I competed in some of their games and I won because I am really tough. This pic is me celebrating after braining a Calutious the Impaler.
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I’m gathering pics from all the various digital cameras to do a small album this week. I’ll be emailing out FTP info to all you crazy globe trotters.

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Notice the time of this post. Jetlag is fun.

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Site of the Day: Being away refreshed my eye for my own city and I took a walk down Little Italy yesterday seeing things I never had noticed before, like food stores and a few authentic old, Italian people on the fire escapes. This weeknd I plan to do more site-seeing here at Open House New York. You should start planning to visit a few places yourself. You’ll kick youreself if you don’t.

Today’s pic is stolen from Yahoo News and shows the locals enjoying Octoberfest in Bavaria. One of you must get married there next.
STC.com will be closed for a week while I am ushering Erik into marriage with the lovely Kerstin. If you are bored at work without me, why not peruse one of my other European excursions:

Ireland
Spain
England

Sean T. Conrad. Drinking across Europe since 2001.

Or ask yourself what the first thing you noticed about the above picture? If it was the gigantic mug of beer, you may have a drinking problem.

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Here’s the only Italian I have learnt for the trip:

I’m sorry.
Chiedo scusa.

I don’t speak Italian.
Non parlo italiano.

One beer, please.
Una birra, per favore.

One wine, please.
Un vino, per favore.

One whiskey, please.
Un whisky, per favore.

Thank you very much.
Grazie molto.

Godfather II is awesome.
Il godfather II ‘ impressionante.

Do you remember World War II?
Vi ricordate della seconda guerra mondiale?

We won.
Abbiamo vinto.

Where is the bathroom?
Dove ‘ la stanza da bagno?

I may vomit.
Posso vomitare.

I’m sorry.
Chiedo scusa.

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Site of the Week: An old, dumb, very addictive penguin game.

Almost every electronics device on sale today offers some sort of rebate. And that is bullshit. The reason a large corporation sells something for $279, but then offers to give $150 back is because they don’t really plan on giving the money back. That’s how they pay the rent for tall, shiny buildings. Somewhere, someone gets a daily report on the rebate success percentage. And everyday the try to lower that number without breaking the law. This person should know that they have a shit job worse than being in advertising (which is what I do).
Sprint sucks, but Google loves blogs, so this post will show up sooner or later. I purchased a phone on January 24, 2005 with the promise of a $150 rebate. Months pass. Winter unsheethes it coat to reveal Spring’s warm shoulders. Summer bounds across my lap and pulls me on to Fall, and, at last a check arrives. THEY SPELLED MY NAME WRONG. As you can see above, it was not because of my messy handwriting. I honestly believe they did it intentionally so that I can’t cash the check. Assholes.

If you found this page because you Googled “Sprint rebates,” you can go here: http://www.sprintrebates.com and that page will lie to you and tell you that the check will arrive in 4-6 weeks. It should say 8 months and your name will be spelled in an interesting, but very unuseful fashion.

Sorry to bore you with this. I just wanted to air my grievance with Sprint. If you have a cell provider you like, leave it in the comments.

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Site of the Day: I’m thinking of entering the Everyman Photo Contest. Take a tour through the archives and tell me which photo sucks the least.

Fall begins in just two days, so it is appropriate that I am finishing up my Summer reading. The last three books I read were coincidentally all very dark and exceptionally violent, but enjoyable. Especially if you are dark and violent. If you are dark violet, please see a doctor. You are choking.
Here’s a one sentence review of each. All are recommended.

–No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
These Texan cowboys are luckily too busy killing one another to wax Republican more than a few times.

–Don’t Point that Thing at Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli
The only good Brit is a drunk one and the narrator carries a buzz and genius drunken musings from cover to cover in this twisted anti-detective novel.

–Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Japanese school kids killing each other for my amusement. (Thanks to Dan for the tip.)

So there’s some recommendations for those of you who enjoy reading about witty peccancy and gratuitous violence.

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Site of the Day: I thought it was an urban legend, but it might be true; Bananas are going extinct.

It’s all saint all week here at STC.com. On Saturday at 2PM, the boothes at the festival lowered their awnings and they weaved a procession through the festival. We had a fantastic view of the whole scene from my window.

The NYPD and a Marine color guard led the way. The procession cuts right throught the heart of the festival, so they might have needed those sabers to clear out the folks dizzy on fried food.

Cousin Brucie was the grand marshall. I have no clue who he is. He gets nuns to accompany.

There was a festival queen and court, including one with boots.

I need to rent Godfather II, asap.

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Site of the Day: Happy Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day!

The title pretty much says it all.
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What are you up to this weekend? Lots of excitement in Sean World. Matt is coming into town and we are seeing Crooked Fingers at Rothko. Bars will be attended before and after.

Tomorrow, the Catholics in my neighborhood will carry and bow to a statue to somehow ironically celebrate their monotheism. It should make for some interesting photos. Tomorrow night, I will be drinking with the wild girls from Rutgers, and Matt.

Sunday, you will find us up to our necks in black & gold, Miller Lite, and fried food at Reservoir for the Steelers game.

Do join in with some or all of these things if you are in town. Other hijinks may fill the cracks.

Related Links:
– Crooked Fingers
– Rothko

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Site of the Day: 10 Most Offensive Jokes. I sent #1 to Colleen. She hasn’t spoken to me since.

They were testing the loud speaker last night. It’s loud. Really loud.

I walked through the booths in the quiet of the morning. Most are just made of plywood and 2x4s and smell of fresh sawdust. I had feared “Drown the Clown” was the dunking booth with the painted insult artist, but it appears to be the squirt-gun balloon game.

The statue procession is at 2PM on Satuday and might be fun to watch from my window with a Mint Julep in hand in between college football games. Join me.

I’m excited for the food and the street beer, but I think the noise may drive me to stay on Bleecker Street with Ildi. It’s a sad day when the drunken NYU kids of the West Village are considered the quiet option.

Here’s the full schedule: http://www.sangennaro.org

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Some other loose ends:
– Kevin’s pictures of the Poconos, including one of me and a very cute baby moments before it threw up all over me. I deserved it.
– Aaron’s pics from Erik’s Bachelor Party in AC. No cameras allowed in the casinos or strip clubs, so they can only be so interesting.

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Site of the Day: Clever or geeky? The work blind.

Here is the after shot taken by Alex. I will post more later.
Can you guess which fella is the bachelor? No, it is not the swaying guy to the right, but actually the one in glasses. The third one from the left in glasses and the flamboyant green shirt. All the better for the strippers to see him.

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