Famous Ankles

I am now in the possession of the digital camera of my dreams!  Actually, it’s only a “dream camera” because it’s so cheap/inexpensive:  $20.  It has 8mb of memory and 640×480 VGA resolution.  I’ve been mulling over doing a blog just to cut down on multiple e-mails and to let me do some pictures rather than just describe what I’ve seen over the past.  But, being cheap, I wanted to test out my fortitude with minimal cost outlay before I commit to a decent camera.  I’ve seldom felt the need to take many pictures over the past years, but moving to NYC has given me some desire to do more than refer people to wikipedia or books or to their own imagination.

In the next few posts, I’ll put up some pictures and you’ll see the (pretty poor) resolution, but I can always get a new camera to take more pictures if I find the desire to continue this. 

 -H

For quite a while, I’ve been sending regular e-mails to a number of people about my travels/adventures/wanderings around New York City (NYC).  This blog is intended to make it so that I don’t have to send quite so many e-mails and to allow me the chance to use my highly sophisticated new digital camera to post pictures.

My usual weekly output is a few pages long.  Keeping in mind “a picture is worth a thousand words”, my output may become comparatively enormous.  Or maybe not.

Whatever.  In any case, I have found that NYC is nearly endlessly fascinating and that I really enjoy wandering the streets and describing what I’ve found.  If you’re looking to find some interesting club tips and restaurant reviews; sorry.  I’m a cheap man and I enjoy just wandering about and finding interesting sights and events that can confront you when you wander NYC.

I always remember Woody Allen’s quote about New York City:  that it’s a place you can order moo goo gai pan at 4am on a Sunday morning.  Not that you would ever want it, but the point is that you can get it.  New York provides and omnipresent and overwhelming series of options to explore.  That overload is almost a challenge.

-H

I just started this blog on WordPress.com. Let’s see how it works.

Big brother Mark and me at our most sophisticated and suave. 

And thanks to my inability to notice a timestamp problem, this looks like it’s a later-in-the-day post rather than the first!

-H