Bruner Blog

Since I don’t blog about much else these days, I figured I should give shouts out to great products here and there, instead of always just slagging on rotten products.

Hence, a new happy find are Kohinoor ready-to-eat Indian food products. Adi, who typically doesn’t like Indian food in restaurants (or when I savage it at home), first turned me on to the stuff. Can be had for $2.50 a box at Fairway. Mmmmm, pindi chana masala!

I have a big CD collection. Never counted it, but several hundred. It’s big enough now that it’s cluttering up the apartment a bit, and I’m on a clutter-reducing binge lately. So I’ve made the decision to purge my life of jewel boxes and go entirely to storage booklets.

But in the past, I’ve never been happy with what I’ve seen from Case Logic or others, because the sleeves where you insert the CDs are so tight fitting, you can’t add in the CD covers and booklets comfortably together with the CD. At best, you have to use one sleeve for the CD itself and another on the facing page for the accompanying paper stuff. That’s weak.

So, I put the word out to you, faithful Bruner Blog readers and random Google visitors: what do you recommend? Ideally, I’m looking for the same basic concept as the standard CD wallet thing, but with looser sleeves so I can include all accompanying paper crap along with the CD itself in a single sleeve. Does such a product exist? Or something that would work just as well?

Leave comments or email me at rickbruner at gmail dot com.

100th St. & Broadway. Fall down, go boom.

Eden Bar, at 104th St. and Broadway

Alev and I had a great time at our birthday party last night. Thanks to all of those who made it. (Those who didn’t better have a damn good excuse.)

Sadly, I forgot to take pictures. (Memory’s the first thing to go when you get to be our age.)

Wayne had his awesome 4th of July party once again in Greenpoint, Miki’s pad. Much fun was had by all. Lots more photos on Flickr.

Also check out 2003

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Thanks to Steve Carlson

Today on Lafayette and Houston. I love that it’s Windows 2000. When was the sign built? Why isn’t it using XP? (To say nothing of the fact that PSP doesn’t run on Windows regardless.)

Props to Doron Wesly for noticing the sign. Part of my Flickr collection.

“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”

President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a letter to his brother Edgar Newton Eisenhower, on 8 November 1954

via Mark

This is what happens when I stop reading my email for months at a time: I miss funny stuff like this from Mark and others.

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country, and who are very good at crosswords.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn’t have to leave L. A. to do it.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too sure who’s running the country, and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train
8. The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who’s running the country, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure there is a country …. or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from ANY country or galaxy as long as they are Democrats.
10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.
11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

For any of you who are friends and are still writing me at my bruner.net or e-summary.com addresses, I do still keep those addresses active (and will forever, particulary the bruner.net address), but I’m going through a period of not checking those addresses hardly ever. I’m actually a couple of months behind at this point.

Much better to write me gmail.com. That is, my first name plus last name (no spaces) at gmail.com.