September 29, 2006 by Gail
Two Apple stores in one day.
I’m attending a New York Photo Bloggers event at the Apple SoHo store. I’m watching the third presenter now, and he’s the funniest of the lot. (Apple has wi-fi here, too.) There were supposed to be eight presenters, but one of them got hit by a taxicab on his bike. He sent a text message to the New York Photo Bloggers moderator saying he was OK but still spitting blood… so definitely not speaking.
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September 29, 2006 by Gail
Posted from my PowerBook inside the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue. There’s free wi-fi, and the store is open 24 hours a day. I’d set up a tent and camp here, if I could. There’s plenty of music and security, too!
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September 29, 2006 by Gail
U.S. border crossing: Rainbow Bridge
Wait time: 20 seconds
Questions: 2
I think I’m on a roll. No more Queenston-Lewiston crossings for me!
An unplanned pit stop was made in Pennsylvania, but nothing to get alarmed about. Helma fed me, I picked up some stuff I left behind last week, it’s all good.
I also picked up a toiletry bag I left two weeks ago along the New York State Thruway at the Scottsville service plaza near Rochester. Thankfully I stopped by when I did because the whole service plaza is shutting down their operations on Sep 29! I replaced everything else at CVS, but I had a bottle of Jil Sander Sport that I picked up in Germany last March and a fresh pair of contact lenses in there that aren’t so easily replaceable. I wanted to pick up the bag on the way back to Toronto last week, but most of these plazas are accessible from only one side of the highway and the round trip would’ve added probably at least 40 minutes if not more to my 9.5 hours of driving last week because the exits are so far apart.
I do not recommend driving into or around Manhattan during rush hour if you’re a nervous driver or you don’t trust your own judgement. My car was wedged tight between an intimidating amount of steel in the afternoon, but that’s not really when I took these cameraphone shots. No, I’m referring to much later when I was trying to park in Harlem with lanes full of double-parkers, schoolbuses, and people in a hurry. Which was after I took an unwise turn and ended up on the ramp to the Madison Avenue Bridge that leads into the Bronx. Which was after a rather harrowing time trying to change lanes along the George Washington Bridge to make the exit to Harlem River Drive. But hey, all’s well that ends well!
Interestingly, not two hours before, I got a call from a friend in Scranton who I passed driving east on the 380 near Mt. Pocono.
“I’m on my way to Newark Airport, and I saw you go by,” he said.
So much for incognito!
I went out with LarimdaME and Ye Leen for some Italian on 9th, followed by some wicked (yet FREE!) views of the city from the rooftop bar of 230 Fifth, interspersed with some photowalking. When I get a connection that is more like high-speed rather than dial-up, I’ll upload those photos. For now, I’ll just have to content myself with uploading the low-res cameraphone pics to Flickr.
Oh, and speaking of free, I scored free street parking in Harlem!
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September 29, 2006 by Gail
I’ve been away from broadband quite a bit lately, so I’ve not been emailing / ewriting / ecomment-responding as per usual. At the moment I’ve resorted to stealing bandwidth from the 10th floor of an old building in an old neighbourhood — one that I’m sure you’ve heard of but I’m still trying to upload photos of it so just take some wild guesses at this point — and currently the data stream has decelerated to a virtual trickle of internet. Maybe they’re on to me.
Sigh. Well, I might just have to go to bed without getting anywhere photo-wise. C’est la vie.
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