Posted by joeNYC at June 27th, 2010
My dad was in the plastics business in the 1970′s, but before that he was a tinkerer and made things in the oven using a mold and a vacuum cleaner, I think they referred to it as vacuum forming. It seemed kinda dangerous to me when I was a kid, but I wish I could have worked with him to create his wonderful inventions…..
Collapsible lightweight shipping container on the google patent site.
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Posted by joeNYC at June 13th, 2010
I saw this while leaving a clients at 27th between 10 and 11th avenues.
Its my favorite New York City picture….
the corner of 10th and 29th street NYC
Posted by joeNYC at June 11th, 2010
I was taking advantage of the less than 30 minutes (the rest of the neighborhood has 90 minutes) of alternate side parking that is enforced on east 86th street. I am writing this post in an effort to own my own content and not give it all to facebook and twitter.
I made friends with this flirty butterfly. I am unsure why it chose to land on my retracted window, but it did long enough for me to snap this picture.
Thank you butterflyNYC.
PS: I also posted a copy of the NYC 2010 alternate side of the street parking calendar on my website here.
Posted by joeNYC at June 3rd, 2010
Being in the computer industry is sort of like being in the wild wild west. There is no computer workers labor union, no licenses, no governing body, and a government that understands so little of what is going on that they wisdom can not fathom the world around them. Therefore, those in my industry have never been able to strike effectively, some have chose other more drastic methods, but I am not going to go into that now.
I have witnessed strikes at various times in my life, mainly in New York city as I was growing up. I have seen the “union rat” and many other forms of labor protest, but it is rare that I have seen a labor protest reach something louder than yelling through a blow horn.
Today was different, as I was walking towards the rush hour subway on 86th street and Lexington Avenue, I traversed 85th street and 3rd avenue, which I do on occasion.
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I came across a labor protest of some self-proclaimed skilled workers in front of a new residential building on that side of the street.
As a method of protest they decided to march in a narrow oval pattern as to allow commuters pass them on the sidewalk while they proceed to blow whistles, while wearing heavy duty ear plugs. The noise almost tore right through the sound of the podcast I was listening to using my in ear headphones. However, the poor people that walked by this noise field with no ear protection were cringing and covering there ears as they hurriedly walked passed the strike.
This to me was a successful case of proving a point. How this point was going to get these people there job back, I have no idea, but it struck a cord with me enough to author a blog post about it.
