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NYC Half-marathon photos

August 5, 2007

On my way to Church, I found the annual NYC half-marathon was in progress. Even if I hadn’t been aware of it before, I would have known something was up when I started seeing cops all over the place starting at Fifth Avenue and lots and lots of re-directed traffic. In fact, they had blocked off 7th Avenue for part of the half-marathon and then they had also blocked off part of 6th Avenue for a street fair. The runners were coming south on 7th and then were cutting east to pass Broadway, so no traffic on it at that part, and then going to 8th Avenue to go north again. And that’s on top of part of Lexington Avenue being cut off because of work being done at the steampipe explosion site.

So, out of roughly 16 north-south roads in Manhattan, at least at the level of 42nd Street, five were blocked to some degree. That’s extraordinary.

Anyway, here a couple of photos taken in Times Square.

I know a couple of people from work who were going to run in it today. I watched for about 20 minutes but didn’t see any of them.

Oh, Church had about 20 of us today. We’re practically bursting with people this summer.

By the time Church was over, the marathon runners had finished their run through Times Square and the street was open again.

-H

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Today’s Church service and the purchase of a camera

July 15, 2007

As is my habit, I went to Church a little early today and ended up in Times Square a bit early for the service. It was relatively hot and humid, so I decided to stop at Duane Reade to cool off and just look around. I went in and was astonished: a simple, small, inexpensive digital camera. Only $20. Not bad; okay, it’s actually dirt cheap. I recently started to think about blogging and knew that I’d want to include pictures, but a half decent camera is $300 and if I didn’t feel like continuing the blogging, the camera would quickly turn worthless as it would go out of date. Also, it seems extreme to buy a really nice camera that would generate huge files that people would have to download. I figured that VGA cheaply done or VGA expensively generated would be about all I’d want.

So, this camera occupied way too much of my thoughts during today’s service. Incidentally, we had about 11 people at the service.

After I left, I went straight back and bought the camera and some batteries. I started taking pictures right away. Wow, are they sub-optimal. Here’s the Coca-Cola sign at one end of Times Square.