Nyc Baby!

[Pauly]

Its been a freakin blast being back home. Every year we come back to New York I think I appreciate Manhattan more and more. We've been a lot of places and some have been really cool... but NYC is a freakin world all its own. First off the city is massive compared to any other. Most others a NY'r would even know they entered or exited a city. A couple building, with very little if anything to offer. NYC was considered dirty and a lot more dangerous when I was growing up here. So this was not the place to hang exactly... of course many still did. But seriously, growing up the trains and subways were graffitied, and bums were pissing themselves all over as you got off the train at Penn Station. If you went to the city you stayed on course, didnt look anyone in the face and traveled during daylight. Muggings were frequent. Today Penn is like a freakin mall with shops and restaurants, gifts etc. Cops have a huge presence, and there are no bums, no piss, and no graffiti. The fact that you can witness a complete culture on one block and then a totally different culture on the next is a very cool experience. From Central Park to Union Square, Financial District, or all the 5th Ave shops, its sick. Lower, upper, east, west, it certainly is a huge melting pot that you will just have to experience for your self one day. Give your self some time if you want to get to familiarize your self with anything because the history runs deep, and I cant think of another larger city. Its freakin awesome! I recommend a Peddi-cab through Times Square... its the best way to absorb what your seeing. A car really limits your view and you have to be attentive to traffic flow, but the Peddi-cab can stop and hang out every few feet if you want to look around take pictures or just awe.
I could probably go on for days about the food... lets just say, theres plenty of it, its all good, and if you use your eyes or nose to find it-it will probably be really good. Most locals know its good but remember, if they have not been anywhere else they cant possibly understand how good, or how much quantity or variety is available to them in a 1 block radius.
Zito and I went for a blast to Long Island and over to see Fonty at Cedar Beach. The ride was well needed and a great time. We had city traffic with lots of people, the tunnel and LIE with moderate traffic, to Cross Island and Southern State which moved pretty well and also had some curves, entrance and exits then the Wantagh Pkwy for high speed with a few curves to Ocean Pkwy which offers high speed straight away action. I don't think you could have asked for a better ride! Then we got to come back

[POLISH MATT]

i see that being back in the NYC is good. i think you should buy a dodge next or a ford b.c. i seems to me that you don't have the best of luck with GMC lol that sucks that you guys got hit. i hope everything is going good out there.

[Pauly]

Originally Posted by POLISH MATT

i see that being back in the NYC is good. i think you should buy a dodge next or a ford b.c. i seems to me that you don't have the best of luck with GMC lol that sucks that you guys got hit. i hope everything is going good out there.

Yeah, I looked at the Dodge... I hear good things about the new 07 engine... but have yet to see a dodge interior package that I like. They always look like hard ass cheap plastic crap... with uncomfortable seats etc. The four door long bed looks like the cab is a little stubbed, particularly the rear doors, and the mega cab with the extension looks good, but only comes in a short bed... no can do either one. The Chevy always looked to me like a cheaper version of the GMC, and the Ford I cant say either way sept to say I have always leaned towards Chevy/GMC. You say dont have the best of luck, but I disagree if we were in anything else when smashed in the rear from a NYC garbage truck we would have been killed! The GMC handle the impact quite well and definitely helped protect us. But I know what your were saying. Think um gonna stick with the GMC for now.

[POLISH MATT]

thats a good point i don't even want to know what would of happend if you were on your bike or a rental that would not be too good. but all a side good that you guys are ok. so how does it feel to be back in the big NYC?

[CHI TOWN LEO]

man, y'd u have to go mess up my truck! glad to hear u guys r ok... ish. lol. i read the first story and was hoping i didnt splice any airbag wires or anything. although the best part of the story is that u smashed into a cruiser too. lol. well good luck with the rest of da trip n dont b a stranger.

[MelosaFlaubert]

We're thinking about our next vacation and want to take our 9 month old son. But we have never travelled far with him before.

[vegaman]

Easy answer. The majority of Microsoft's profits come from Windows + Office. Ballmer will do nothing to jeopardize that, which goes a long way toward explaining why Microsoft has completely failed in the mobile space. They're paralyzed, frozen in time, looking back to the glory days of the '90s. iPad to iTunes Yeah guys, I've posted a comment on this issue as soon as 4.2.1 came out and I updated to it. Mind you that I never cared for "AirEver", but having more than 500 apps I needed desperately the folders function. To cut a long story short, it only worked for me at the 3rd attempt. I was able to reduce almost 30 pages of apps into only 3 pages. Since the folders only shows 9 icons, I sticked to that and made almost all of them with only 9 apps so not to "overload" it. It's been a week and so far so good. It seamed the iOS needed to "get used to it", I don't know. But still I hope they don't get all of a sudden messed up in the future, as I've spent a lot of time organizing it all. And I do prefer and find it fast to do it in the iPad itself, with the help of the docking bar. And yes the wiggle lasts a bit after hitting home, but I wait patiently � better than having to reorganize everything all over again�

[vegaman]

I wonder if Mobile Hot Spot is a Verizon exclusive for the next 6 months until iOS 5 drops (as part of their deal with Verizon), or if other carriers will get it in an iOS 4.2.5 update come February? (Not that AT&T is likely to allow Mobile HotSpot for another year or more, cf: MMS, Tethering.) dvd to quicktime Yawn for me. My iPad 2 delivers tomorrow coincidence? Now the people who waited with your old phone, my sis included, can get the white iPhone 4 now. Though I've had mine for 10 months now, and for a few more ahead

[vegaman]

Thinking about springing the 10 for this, but one question�. Do the emailed recipients get a "viewable" document from this, or do they have to have this app also? I have had apps before that allow for publication to email from directly in the app, but when you send these to some one not using the app, windows can't find an application to open it with. ipad 2 transfer I have a grovemade case and love it. It's hand made out of a single peice of bamboo

[vegaman]

I have an iPhone 4 for which my employer pays � My wife has an iPhone 3g for which we pay � both are with AT;T. If I'm reading your article correctly, I could conceivably exchange the SIMs so that I could use the 3G and she could use the 4, assuming that I had backed up each phone and done a full reset. Is that correct? convert wmv to swf I heard that Sony is making a PSP2 witch could be an PSP phone without Android or the phone, and the PSP phone could be on of the Google phones it looks pretty stuck to me. How funny would it be it Sony paid VZW to put playstation network on the WP7 like Microsoft does with Bing on the none Droid android phones. Also I am hopping that the PSP app is platform dependent like Google own apps so that Sony can upgrade their "app" without Google updating the hole OS and that I can ported to other Android devices and people could hack it to other OSes like iOS threw jailbreak!