Haven't got the time?

I got this email on a YU spamming mailing list:

The Counseling Center is once again offering a student workshop entitled “Managing your time.” The workshop, led by Dr. Effie Nulman, will take place in the counseling Center (116 Laurel hill Terrace) on Thursday, September 7 from 3:00-3:45 pm.
Refreshments will be served.
Hope to see you then.

Chaim Nissel, PsyD
Director, Yeshiva University Counseling Center

I would go, but I'm too busy and haven't got the time.

Police Problems

For some reason Rutgers University decided to have their involvement fair on Labor Day. The AIAA had a booth at the involvement fair; however the AIAA room was on a locked and alarmed floor (closed due to Labor Day). Unfortunate we could not contact the people in charge of the building, and the deans office informed us that they where not open until the following day. After one and a half hours we decided to call the RUPD, they let us in to get our stuff. After which I drove my father’s car with 4 feet of wing sticking out the back down route 18 to the involvement fair. Then of course after the involvement fair I had to drive the plane back to where our room was, but because it was locked and alarmed by couldn’t go in. in the end we had to leave it another plane in Jimmy’s dorm.

Back in the days of paper transactions

I decided to take a photo of my check to the credit card company one day. This check was cashed without a problem. It seems that the date field is not very important considering that it is blank.

National Fire Safety Week

A while ago I posted about National Fire Prevention week. As NFPW is only 5 weeks away, here's something in the spirit of the season.
YU has been putting up new signs around the whole uptown campus. New building signs, floor signs, etc. I think, and this is not sarcastic in any way, this is a very good thing. However, they also put up new floor evacuation plan signs. Or rather, sign holders. So I put in what I feel is a good evacuation plan:

This is on the 16th floor of Belfer Hall. There are 15 other floors with empty signs. Let's hear your ideas in the comments for other evacuation plans and I'll put 'em in the other floors' signs.

Demons and Ogres and Giants Oh My!!!!\

There is an online role-playing game that I was addicted to in my summer after my junior year of high school called Runescape. I now only play this game on very rare occasions however one time I went online and discovered about 210000 people logged in. There are two modes of game play f2p (free to ply) and p2p (pay to play). The p2p get tons of more things than those of us who don't pay. It costs five dollars a month to be a member. On the occasion that I saw the 210000 people logged in I checked how many of them where members and the number was 84725. Now with a bit of math (84725)x(5)x(12)=$5083500. Now this is the amount of money based upon the people logged in at that particular time. They have servers all over the USA, and Canada, as well as in London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Sydney. Also, I have no idea how much they make of the ads on their site.

Crooked Pictures

I have heard a complaint about my taking pictures diagonally from the man in the crazy getup seen below. Now I do this sort of thing on purpose because it lets me fit more into the rectangular frame even though it gives some photos a blair witch project sort of unprofessional effect (this one in particular is blair-witch-like).


See, I am fully capable of taking normal pictures (these are from the Getty Museum, LA CA).







There actually was an earthquake when I was taking this one (hard to hold still).


Just kidding, when taking pictures the way I like to you get about sqrt(2) times extra room. Had I taken the above picture normally you wouldnt have seen the detail of the road in the close foreground or the deepness of the sky near the top edge.

It especially helps taking closeups of tall buildings like this one.


Critique Please? (comments/emails)

Can I help you?

I've been going to a lot of stores recently (shopping? No, I've been shopping!). For some reason, in almost every store, someone thinks that I work there, and asks me for help. This happened in Kmart, Target, IKEA, Bed Bath and Beyond, Linens and Things, and probably some others that I'm forgetting about. The strange thing is that in most of these places the helpy people wear some sort of obvious uniform: IKEA, for example, BRIGHT yellow shirts. And the clothes that I wear do not even remotely look like the uniforms (I don't even own a yellow shirt!). I'm up for suggestions from the peanut gallery as to why this is regularly happening to me. And, check out this Improv Everywhere "Mission" where they made use of the obvious uniforms [link].

Also, here are some pictures of the LIRR vending machine's Hebrew language option I blogged about last week. I payed more attention this time, and there were three different machines. They all had the Spanish option, but one had two Asian languages, one had Italian and German, and this one had French and Hebrew (of all languages to put together. I guess it's better than German, though. Or Italian. Really, they may as well just have put Arabic). Without further ado...the pictures:

[Photo credit: Yoni. Look closely in the pictures...]

The Color Pink Is Toxic

Today I attempted to run a network cable to my room. In the process of doing this I was required to move some of the toxic, pink insulation stuff laid down. So I geared up gloves check, flashlight check, walky talky check, breath mask check, hat check, and lab goggles check. The results of all this, is that you get to see yet another one of my wacky photo shoots.

Now for my first miracle surgery I ...



Licence and registration please

Welcome Back to Edison

Now that I'm back in NJ its time to show some old footage of the crazy Edison Municipal workers piling dirt on our lawn and climbing inside their garbage trucks.

The long story:
They thought we were planting crops between the sidewalk and the road so the snow plow "plowed" our lawn. When we cleared up the confusion they replaced the dirt.

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Remember stamping on your stuffed garbage can so that the junk will fit in? Turns out that's part of a sanitation engineer's job description.


This man deserves a Darwin Award.