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Here are a few pics from new york.

Here is a 2st

Here is an expensive BK

Here is times square

Here is a subway ad

Here is a bull (Merril Lynch?)

Here is what happens when you give a passing art student your camera to take a picture.

Everyone thought that I should have my picture taken with the geeky binary ad.

Here was my Tom Cruise sighting (note the sign in the background..Free Personality Profile).

Here is some meat they wanted us to eat.

More meat

And you thought speeding tickets were bad.

John Lennon died 30 years ago, but people still bring him offerings.

I don’t really have the desire right now to be an independent consultant. I have the background, and I think I have the contacts, but I really like what I do and enjoy coming to work everyday.

That said, I was thinking the other day about if I was able to work from home on an 8-5 schedule doing the programming thing. I’m pretty structured, so I would definitely spend most of my time working in front of the computer.

But that got me thinking: if I did do that, could I pull off doing it while actually working another job? One thing that came to mind was from my middle school/high school days. They had a teacher who did nothing but supervise study hall. This person got paid to sit in a room all day and, for the most part, do nothing but read.

I thought: wouldn’t that be the perfect job for someone who worked on programming all day? First off, you get the whole summer off from it. And secondly, you get 95% of the day to yourself anyway. You could double dip and make some extra money while you were doing your main consulting job.

Someone out there who works for yourself: please try this and tell me if it works. I’m very curious to know.

This weekend I played plumber.

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I’m going to say it.

I hate it when people call stores to ask questions that they could have found out if they just went over to the store themself.

At the Menards last night, I was hanging around waiting for some paint to get mixed. The guy at the paint booth was on the phone talking to someone who called in. He was talking about tarps, as in the thing that you cover stuff up with. I dunno how that relates to paint, but that’s what he was doing.

Anyway, he kept answering questions about types of tarps. Then he would talk around sizes. Then colors. He would check stock: “we have 16 4×8 tarps in stock….those come in blue, gray, or gold. No, no red in that size but I do have red in …”

Come on man. If your phone call to a store is more than a yes or no question - or to ask what the hours are, you should just go there. It should not be the responsibility of the store employee to do your shopping for you.

I really dislike when I get ready to blog a blog and I forgot what I was going to write about.

Oh yeah, now I remember:

The H-1B visa. As I’m sure many of you are aware, this is a visa that allows a foreigner to work in the US as sponsored by a country. But have you ever read the formal definition from the website?:

The H-1B is a nonimmigrant classification used by an alien who will be employed temporarily in a specialty occupation or as a fashion model of distinguished merit and ability.

Who knew that fashion modeling was such a prominent industry!