Chicken Katsudon

Miyako 7184960837 143 Berry St Williamsburg NY 11211

Fabiane's

Here's some pictures of a mocha and chai latte with chocolate croissant in Fabiane's.

Not only is this my first post in a long time, it's also my first since our having a baby, since moving to Williamsburg, since changing jobs, in Williamsburg, and posted in the Bloggr app on my new Nexus S. Nearly maximizing my potential firsts. It is however likely my last of 2010.

Dang. It seems I cannot edit posts written outside this app, tag using known tags, pick a location I'm not currently near, pick a location from an attached photo, or even retain the correct photo orientation which the camera and gallery are aware of! That's a lot of little shortcomings I didn't expect.

T Salon in Chelsea Market

T Salon in Chelsea Market. Pot of green jade oolong about $9. Afternoon tea is $35pp. Relaxing with acoustic Bjork, Boards of Canada, and Dead Can Dance. However all the cakes and cookies are vegan. Is that good or bad?

Curly's Vegetarian Lunch

Curly's Vegetarian Lunch
At 330 east 14th street.

Tulips in north garden of Conservancy

Tulips in north garden of Conservancy garden.

Han Bat Budae Jigae

The Budae Jigae at Han Bat Restaurant 53 W 35 St. NYC NY 10001. Rough Translation: army base stew. Shortly after the war the main way to get meats and foods was from the American army bases. Expired cans of spam, canned pork sausages etc. The stew contains: Spam, pork frankfurters, bacon, flava beans, tofu in a spicy hot soup. About $15 with tax and tip.

Sachertorte und Einspanner

Sachertorte und Einspanner. About $17 with tax and tip.

Newspapers are old

Newspapers are old. They may be technically modern, but they largely seem out of place in whatever post postmodern age we're in now. Consider then this photo. Can you make it out? Clearly even when papers were new and or necessary, they were still considered inconvenient to hold and read, enough so to warrant an aiding device. In this age that's only intensified, and yet devices such ar this have mostly disappeared. More on what I'm getting at in another, non-mobile post.

Cafe Sabarsky

Kaiser melange, holanderbluten spritzer, Frustucksbrotkorb, und Shienken mit kasse. About $30.Cafe Sabarsky

The Central Park reservoir. North and So

The Central Park reservoir. North and South sides viewed from east side.

The secret garden in the Conservancy

The secret garden in the Conservancy Garden. South of the enterance at 105th st and 5th ave. It's heavily fragrant with blossoms and I saw a red cardinal, by which I mean a bird not a church functionary.

The northern garden of the Conservancy

The northern garden of the Central Park Conservancy Garden. At 105th and 5th. Free tours saturdays at 11am spring to fall.

Central Park east side by 97th

Central Park near 97th and 5th ave. Note to self: 5 resized photos is about the most that fit in one MMS. After the rain young crows bathed in puddles. But I forgot the battery for my better camera.

Wonjo recently renovated

Wonjo (the original) recently renovated. 23 W 32nd st 10001. Mul nang myun $13.95. Also try the barbeque.

Wich craft stand at Greenly Square Park

Wich craft stand at Greenly Square Park. Iced coffee and lemon poppy seed cookie'wich $3.

Shopsin's General Store at Essex Market

Shopsin's General Store at Essex Market. Red velvet poppy seed pancakes, two eggs and toast, coffee: $19.40 tasty but not cheap enough for the 30 min wait.

Nyona malaysian restaurant.

Nyona malaysian. Chicken in a clay pot. Roti with egg and onions. Fried coconut ice cream with fried bananas. Not pictured was the A.B.C. shaved ice.

Swedish bun and coffee at Great Bakery

Swedish bun and coffee at Great Bakery Inc. $1.60

Pho Grand reopens

Pho Grand reopens

The high line park

The high line park. I saw it when it opened, and it seems to have improved since. There are also plans for expansion.

I suppose clouds aren't always bad

I suppose clouds aren't always a bad thing. Particularly in black and white photography where a blank white sky highlights any dust or scratches. This is 35th st west of Madison ave. Note to self: make my black and white film photography site after I have interviewed successfully. Wow. Mobile blogging from a phone pad really makes you notice the frequent double consonents in English. Two notes to self: edit for spelling and visit the Pierpont Morgan library and museum soon.

Apple Pie & Coffee at New Wing Wah Bakery

Apple 'Pie' and coffee at New Wing Wah Bakery. Less than $2. Half sandwich and fancy walnut 'tha' (tart) $2.75. Recommended for selection and price, not service or seating. On north side of Grand west of Chrystie. At 246 Grand Street NYC NY 10002

Tofu soup at Cho Dang Gol

Tofu soup at Cho Dang Gol. 36th st between 5 and 6th ave. Click to read more and see the rice in a dol sot.

Big Dialogs + Netbooks = Problems

I’ve noticed this problem a few times, and most every time it’s had to do with a dialog from a Java program. Image you’re using Eclipse and you’ve installed the Android SDK Plugin. You now want to make a new Android Project, but you’re on a netbook with a 600px high screen, so you’ll be presented with this:

What’s wrong with that?

Koryodang Bakery 32nd st and 6-7th ave.

Koryodang Bakery 32nd st and 6-7th ave. Banana crepe and Redbean ice.

Brooklyn botanical gardens

Brooklyn botanical gardens: Cherry blossom panorama. A little cold and overcast but pretty and fresh.

General audio tips from a listener

Before you screencast or podcast try to do the following 12 suggestions:

1. Get a microphone that has a low noise floor, directional pickup area and a decent wide band. It needn't cost more than $80 unless you have a penchant for gold plated lead over black plastic.
   

Links not about fire

I don't really blog. So you and I will find the following a little... unusual:
Here's a list of links I found interesting. Firstly, it's certainly not everything, secondly, I hope the New York Times has done away with that barrier between readers and their articles. It might be they've only removed it for recent stories, so this won't archive well, and for that I apologize for linking to them at all.


New York Times: The Better Pope.
New York Times: Experts on the Volcanic Eruption (paraphrasing) All together now: "Eyjafjallajokull"
New York Daily News: Teaboinics. [Misspelled protests regarding Government and English's place in it].
Youtube: While you'll see many children appear smart by "using" and iPad (updated from baby iPhone use), bear in mind the principle scales all the way down to house cats, with less cute vocalizations.

Fire escape has become unnecessary

Regarding the fire, there are sparks flying from the building 285 Grand street, and water is getting sprayed onto the sparks as they fall. The NYC Buildings crew is up on the smaller crane sawing through the fire-escape's metal and throwing it down bit by bit.


The street closing remain as:

Building getting taken down slowly.

This morning, in reference to the fire, Cheng Sheng gets to be open on the south east corner of Grand and Eldridge. Otherwise the street closings are very similar. News crews seem less present, some moved to Allen at the bus stop. The large crane moved last night onto Eldridge and stayed there. This leaves Grand looking quite empty. The windows seem to have been fully removed, probably to avoid any of the broken and already heat-cracked glass from falling.

There's a crane and OEM vehicle.

The attention to the fire is reduced to two fire trucks, some ambulances just in case the building comes down, a NYC buildings team, and a mysterious glistening "OEM" coach, filled with suited self important types.  Oh, of course there's 3 TV crews. OEM stands for Operational Emergency Management. My opinion is they're sort of late now. But who knows, maybe they have espresso machines on board for the fighters and engineers to use during breaks.

There's still smoke.

The fire surprised us in lasting right into the morning. And I don't mean 1am, I mean 10am. So when we walked past last night at 10pm on our way to a restaurant, the fire had already started, but no one had noticed. And when we returned around 12am fire crews had been on the scene for some time, perhaps 30 minutes already, but they were still working on closing off Grand from Allen Street.

That morning, it was clear that there was quite a bit of damage to not just the primary building (283) which is the third from Eldridge street, but also the buildings left and right of it, and at the corner containing a pharmacy/cosmetics store, the 2rd building in containing the fish market, and the 4th building containing a market. The shorter building with Pho Grand at the street level was also closed due to smoke damage, but did not apparently have fire damage.

Videos of the Fire on Grand Street

Upfront: Apologies for the noisy in-camera audio; consider muting these.
April 11th - 12th: Fire on Grand Street in Chinatown Manhattan 10002.
Here are some videos of the fire, crowds, and city employees handling the situation.

Had I realized Blogger would resize my 640x480 videos and Gaussian them I wouldn't have bothered... Maybe I could have spent the time to make them embeddable myself.

Here's the links of choices from the series of my videos on Vimeo:

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10.

And the embedded videos:

Fire on Grand street

Update: See also videos.

Fire on Grand street's south side, in Chinatown, Manhattan 10002.

Update: at 283 Grand, which may have spread to 285 289 and 281.

Next to Pho Grand between Forsyth and Eldridge streets on the south side.

Six more photos after the break.

Nasi Lemak Roti Chanai at Singapore Cafe

Nasi Lemak, Roti Chanai, shaved ice ABC, Malaysian ice tea at Singapore Cafe on Mott st south of Canal. Open late on Sunday night too. 

Just 2 more photos after the break.