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Once I found the Chase branch, things went pretty smoothly, so the rest of this story will be pretty fast.  The Chase people were easily able to print out my statement, and they were kind enough to xerox my driver's license.  I packed everything into my soggy manila envelope and trotted back through the steam to the ( Read more... )

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"Ok, the clerk said. Here's what you do: you can go home and get those documents, but you'll have to be back here before 2PM."

It was 12:58.  Not going to happen.

"Or?" I said.

"Do you have a bank account?  Well, then, find the nearest branch and ask them to print out your last statement.  With your address.  We'll accept that. ( Read more... )

Patrick is not my real name.  I actually have an incredibly ethnic name, in the style of Annunziato or Ermenegildo. (But neither of those. But just as bad.)  And I've always hated it.  I mean no disrespect to the grandfather for whom I was named, it's just that in the 1970s where I grew up, having a name like Zanibuono DiJusto (not my old name, ( Read more... )

It is very difficult to find a video in which EVERY SINGLE FRAME is just wrong, wrong, wrong. This video meets that criterion.

An example of my early computer animation skills.

Yet another computer animation I made in the 1990s

• 06:05 I generally sleep 5.5 to 6 hours per night. Fell asleep at 10:30. Naturally, I'm up at 5:30. Top o' th' mornin' to ye. #
• 07:50 It is snowing in Brooklyn. I repeat, it is snowing in Brooklyn. #
• 11:24 Some thoughts on the Russian and their asteroid quest: murmursofearth.blogspot.com/2009/12/apophis-and-russians.html #
• 14:17 There's an herb ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Spoke before a paying, adult audience. Been a carless adult.  Pitched two television shows. Made bagels.  Had lunch with an editor. Was a gues on NPR's "On The Media"

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No. No.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
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• 10:09 Realization -- I didn't set foot on the mainland of North America between December 26 2008 and April 12, 2009 #