NYCLife

tags: birds, parrots, Quaker Parrot, Monk ParakeetGrey-Breasted parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus, NYC events, NYC Life, Brooklyn, Wild Parrot Safari Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Image: Magnus Manske, 10 May 2008, Wikipedia [larger view] Even though NYC is located in the armpit of hell where, during the summers, the air is a humid miasma of fetid human sweat and decomposing dog shit, and the winters possess the cold and wind of Antarctica with none of its natural charms, there is a brave group of illegal aliens who not only live here, but are actually thriving…
tags: birds, parrots, Quaker Parrot, Monk ParakeetGrey-Breasted parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus, NYC events, NYC Life, Brooklyn, Wild Parrot Safari Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Image: Magnus Manske, 10 May 2008, Wikipedia [larger view] Even though NYC is located in the armpit of hell where, during the summers, the air is a humid miasma of fetid human sweat and decomposing dog shit, and the winters possess the cold and wind of Antarctica with none of its natural charms, there is a brave group of illegal aliens who not only live here, but are actually thriving…
The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew, The twilight stood as strangers do With hat in hand, polite and new, To stay as if, or go. A vastness, as a neighbor, came,-- A wisdom without face or name, A peace, as hemispheres at home,-- And so the night became. ~ Emily Dickinson This is the cutest event I've heard of for NYC: a night spent counting crickets and katydids. What: NYC Cricket Crawl (counting 7 species of crickets and katydids in NYC)Where: New York City areaWhen: Friday, 11 September 2009 at 7:…
tags: birds, parrots, Quaker Parrot, Monk ParakeetGrey-Breasted parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus, NYC events, NYC Life, Brooklyn, Wild Parrot Safari Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Image: Magnus Manske, 10 May 2008, Wikipedia [larger view] Even though NYC is located in the armpit of hell where, during the summers, the air is a humid miasma of fetid human sweat and decomposing dog shit, and the winters possess the cold and wind of Antarctica with none of its natural charms, there is a brave group of illegal aliens who not only live here, but are actually thriving…
The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew, The twilight stood as strangers do With hat in hand, polite and new, To stay as if, or go. A vastness, as a neighbor, came,-- A wisdom without face or name, A peace, as hemispheres at home,-- And so the night became. ~ Emily Dickinson This is the cutest event I've heard of for NYC: a night spent counting crickets and katydids. What: NYC Cricket Crawl (counting 7 species of crickets and katydids in NYC)Where: New York City areaWhen: Friday, 11 September 2009 at 7:…
The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew, The twilight stood as strangers do With hat in hand, polite and new, To stay as if, or go. A vastness, as a neighbor, came,-- A wisdom without face or name, A peace, as hemispheres at home,-- And so the night became. ~ Emily Dickinson This is the cutest event I've heard of for NYC: a night spent counting crickets and katydids. What: NYC Cricket Crawl (counting 7 species of crickets and katydids in NYC)Where: New York City areaWhen: Friday, 11 September 2009 at 7:…
The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew, The twilight stood as strangers do With hat in hand, polite and new, To stay as if, or go. A vastness, as a neighbor, came,-- A wisdom without face or name, A peace, as hemispheres at home,-- And so the night became. ~ Emily Dickinson This is the cutest event I've heard of for NYC: a night spent counting crickets and katydids. What: NYC Cricket Crawl (counting 7 species of crickets and katydids in NYC)Where: New York City areaWhen: Friday, 11 September 2009 at 7:…
The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew, The twilight stood as strangers do With hat in hand, polite and new, To stay as if, or go. A vastness, as a neighbor, came,-- A wisdom without face or name, A peace, as hemispheres at home,-- And so the night became. ~ Emily Dickinson This is the cutest event I've heard of for NYC: a night spent counting crickets and katydids. What: NYC Cricket Crawl (counting 7 species of crickets and katydids in NYC)Where: New York City areaWhen: Friday, 11 September 2009 at 7:…
tags: Test Your Faith Vision, humor, funny, streaming video This video shows you an actual boat rescue in progress. A speedboat has flipped over in NYC's Central Park Conservatory Water so a nearby fireboat rescues it by flipping it back to its proper position. Of course, since this is a speedboat, the ungrateful thing zips off immediately, and is not seen again. I happen to know the man (Dick Conners) who pilots the fireboat in this video. [0:57] I have a photoessay in the works about the boathouse where these model boats are housed, since Dick was so kind as to bring me into this space…
Who: Dr. Jeff SchweitzerWhat: free public presentation, "Moral Life in a Random World"Where: SLC Conference Center, 352 7th avenue (between 29th and 30th streets), 16th floor.When: 700pm, Thursday, 9 July Dr. Jeff Schweitzer is a scientist who has written extensively on morality, religion, politics and science -- and who served as science advisor to former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore. Schweitzer will talk about how we each have within us the awesome power to create our own meaning in life, our own sense of purpose, our own destiny. He will address how…
Who: Dr. Jeff SchweitzerWhat: free public presentation, "Moral Life in a Random World"Where: SLC Conference Center, 352 7th avenue (between 29th and 30th streets), 16th floor.When: 700pm, Thursday, 9 July Dr. Jeff Schweitzer is a scientist who has written extensively on morality, religion, politics and science -- and who served as science advisor to former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore. Schweitzer will talk about how we each have within us the awesome power to create our own meaning in life, our own sense of purpose, our own destiny. He will address how happiness…
Who: Dr. Jeff SchweitzerWhat: free public presentation, "Moral Life in a Random World"Where: SLC Conference Center, 352 7th avenue (between 29th and 30th streets), 16th floor.When: 700pm, Thursday, 9 July Dr. Jeff Schweitzer is a scientist who has written extensively on morality, religion, politics and science -- and who served as science advisor to former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore. Schweitzer will talk about how we each have within us the awesome power to create our own meaning in life, our own sense of purpose, our own destiny. He will address how…
Who: Dr. Jeff SchweitzerWhat: free public presentation, "Moral Life in a Random World"Where: SLC Conference Center, 352 7th avenue (between 29th and 30th streets), 16th floor.When: 700pm, Thursday, 9 July Dr. Jeff Schweitzer is a scientist who has written extensively on morality, religion, politics and science -- and who served as science advisor to former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore. Schweitzer will talk about how we each have within us the awesome power to create our own meaning in life, our own sense of purpose, our own destiny. He will address how happiness…
Who: journalist and author, Nina BurleighWhat: free public presentation, "Biblical Forgery"Where: SLC Conference Center, 352 7th avenue (between 29th and 30th streets), 16th floor, room D4When: Thursday, 4 June 700-830pm Join CFI and the Secular Humanist Society of New York to meet journalist and author Nina Burleigh, who wrote the recently published book, Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed, & Forgery in the Holy Land. Her book tells the story of the unraveling of a Bible relic forgery scheme in Israel, and gives a glimpse into the intriguing world of biblical archaeology and…
Who: journalist and author, Nina BurleighWhat: free public presentation, Biblical ForgeryWhere: SLC Conference Center, 352 7th avenue (between 29th and 30th streets), 16th floor, room D4When: Thursday, 4 June 700-830pm Join CFI and the Secular Humanist Society of New York to meet journalist and author Nina Burleigh, who wrote the recently published book, Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed, & Forgery in the Holy Land. Her book tells the story of the unraveling of a Bible relic forgery scheme in Israel, and gives a glimpse into the intriguing world of biblical archaeology and…
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, science, education Nick with his potato gun, on the downtown-bound A Train. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 June 2009. Today as I was riding the A Train to the library so I could use their free wifi, I ran into Nick and his friend who are high school students in NYC. Their hobby is science. Physics, to be precise. In the above picture (blurry -- the train provides a very bumpy ride), you can see Nick with one of his physics experiments, a potato gun that he designed and built using PVC pipe. Since I have designed and built a few items from PVC myself (mostly…
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Rose. 83rd and Amsterdam Avenue (Upper West Side of Manhattan). Image: GrrlScientist, 23 April 2009 [larger view]. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." -- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2).
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Dahlias. 83rd and Amsterdam Avenue (Upper West Side of Manhattan). Image: GrrlScientist, 23 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Springtime in Manhattan. West 78th Street and Columbus Ave, looking west towards Amsterdam and Broadway Aves; UWS, Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 12 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: Central Park, NYC, house finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, image of the day Central Park House Finch, Carpodacus mexicanus Image: Bob Levy, author of Club George [larger view]. The photographer writes: I am humbled to be able to present to you exclusive and incontrovertible photographic proof that Central Park House Finches have become involved in the manufacture of Sangria this Holiday Season. These entrepreneurial finches recognized the profit potential in a niche business to which they are, surprising as it may seem to this observer, supremely adept. In this image we find a no…