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20 December 2005

STEEEEEEEEEEERIKE!
I made the cold walk to work today. It's empty. Anyone else in?
posted by papercake 20 December | 09:15
Third base!
posted by DaShiv 20 December | 09:16
Here I am, calculating foreign currency swap valuation variances versus counterparty mark-to markets as usual.
posted by Hugh Janus 20 December | 09:23
Too far and too cold for me. And no coworkers with cars. The mrs. got a lift to the Bronx, but my job is downtown.
posted by jonmc 20 December | 09:25
I walked in from Park Slope, took about an hour and a half, the walk over the bridge was amazing. I am not doing it tomorrow.
posted by Divine_Wino 20 December | 09:30
hey jonmc, is there a picket line at Ditmars?
posted by Edible Energy 20 December | 09:31
Not everyone on the Internet lives in New York City.

Best of luck to those of you who do. It's not going to be fun.
posted by briank 20 December | 09:41
I'm working from home (aka New Jersey) today. I feel sorry for my cig buddy jonmc, who can't do his work electronically like I can.

Who am I going to go on smoke breaks with?
posted by TrishaLynn 20 December | 09:44
Not everyone on the Internet lives in New York City.

Let's enumerate the ways in which this is a tedious statement, I'll start:


A) So?
posted by Divine_Wino 20 December | 09:45
I haven't been out yet, so I don't know about the picket lines. I remember walking home during the blackout and it took longer than 1 1/2 hours. And I am not young enough to do that indefinitely.
posted by jonmc 20 December | 09:45
Ooh! I'll play, Divine_Wino:

B) And?
posted by papercake 20 December | 09:47
C)you gotta fuckin' problem with that?
posted by jonmc 20 December | 09:49
Meanwhile, the comments at twulocal100.blogspot.com are getting heated.
posted by Edible Energy 20 December | 09:50
D) I got yer internet right heah! (grabs crotch)
posted by Edible Energy 20 December | 09:51
E) You don't say. Fascinating. You got some kinda newsletter?
posted by Hugh Janus 20 December | 09:52
ooh! Noo Yawkers get testes when their transit strikes.
posted by taz 20 December | 10:11
"I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"
posted by papercake 20 December | 10:16
ooh! Noo Yawkers get testes when their transit strikes.

I gotcher tes--

/can't do it...
posted by jonmc 20 December | 10:17
(from in between the ravings at twulocal100.blogspot.com)

I am a transit user and Staten Island resident with no car.

I support you 100%

We need transit workers who are not worrying about basic issues such as health care, retirement, or how they will pay for their kids tuitions.

We need a solid middle class workforce in NYC.
posted by Edible Energy 20 December | 10:30
Meanwhile, healthcare costs at my company just went up $2300 next year and we don't get a pension.
posted by papercake 20 December | 10:40
You should start a union.
posted by Hugh Janus 20 December | 10:41
I was thinking about it.

I could call it Union of the Snakes on a Plane.
posted by papercake 20 December | 10:44
I didn't even try to organize getting to work today. I don't think anybody is expecting me. Manhattan --> Bronx = futile.
posted by gaspode 20 December | 10:48
Tedious my ass.

If I posted "Gee, it's cold in Boston this morning" you'd be all "Who fucking cares what happens in Boston" and you know it.
posted by briank 20 December | 10:53
Who fucking cares what happens in Boston?

This is the internet (New York).
posted by mcgraw 20 December | 11:01
Transit strikes happen every time it's cold in Boston?
posted by Hugh Janus 20 December | 11:03
I think "it's so cold in Boston that millions of people can't get to work" would be a better equivalent and probably would hold a lot of peoples' interest, even if they're not in Beantown.

(I mean, hi, I'm reading this here thread and I'm certainly not in New York.)
posted by grapefruitmoon 20 December | 11:07
Manhattan --> Bronx = futile.

As opposed to Northern Queens --> Lower Manhattan? Not a contest, just saying. Iknow the Wino walked all the way from Brooklym but he's insane.
posted by jonmc 20 December | 11:11
Oh sweet jeebus. There's a bunch of New Yorkers here. Deal.
posted by dame 20 December | 11:13
Wino's walk is pretty reasonable, as walks go.
posted by dame 20 December | 11:13
Mine would suck. Ditmars down to Queensboro, across the 59th street bridge, down to Spring and across town to Hudson. Yeesh, I'm tired just typing that.
posted by jonmc 20 December | 11:15
To get to swimming today: half a mile to Broadway (in Brooklyn), a mile and a half to the bridge (drops you at Delancey & Clinton), across the island, up to Tenth and Fifty-eighth.

To swimming tomorrow: over the bridge, up to Twenty-fourth and Lexington.

But I'd probably ride. The radio says you have to walk your bike across the bridge because there is shoes to shoe ped-lock.

Overall, the second one is only a little worse than Wino's.
posted by dame 20 December | 11:22
Perhaps, but I'm old and decrepit and my employer has treated me poorly and I'm fried from all the stress this year, so I'll be damned if I'm going through some kind of endurance test for them.
posted by jonmc 20 December | 11:24
Yeah, I had it easy.

Home: 47th & 9th.
Work: 17th between 8th & 7th.

Hell, I walk to work most of the time anyway. (Although not often in 25 degree weather.) I'm mostly disappointed that my boss made it in. Even though I'm just clearing out my desk and finishing up a few projects before my last day tomorrow, I was looking forward to stealing company secrets in private.
posted by papercake 20 December | 11:26
Not everyone on the Internet lives in New York City.

If you don't care, don't read the fucking thread. Some of these people are my friends. This is MetaChat. Leave your attitude back on MetaFilter.
posted by matildaben 20 December | 11:31
don't read the fucking thread.

There's a fucking thread? where? I'd much rather talk about fucking than mass transit.
posted by jonmc 20 December | 11:42
As opposed to Northern Queens --> Lower Manhattan? Not a contest, just saying.


Yeah, I know. But even the opportunities for picking up rides are worse in my direction.

Anyways, I'm at home in my sweatpants and fuzzy slippers playing with pictures of cells in photoshop. Happy times.

*looks for fucking thread*
posted by gaspode 20 December | 11:44
jonmc: You should know not to challenge me sometimes.
posted by TrishaLynn 20 December | 11:46
They're letting people walk on the 59th St. bridge? I thought it was vehicular traffic only.
posted by Hugh Janus 20 December | 11:48
Anyways, I'm at home in my sweatpants and fuzzy slippers playing with pictures of cells in photoshop. Happy times.

Way to disappoint me. I had a vision of you carrying a cooler full of tissue samples and a pack of lab rats on the subway so you could "take some work home with you."

I was just watching the news and somebody mentioned something about schools closing early, which means Pips might be home soon. Yay! (any definitive word on that?)
posted by jonmc 20 December | 11:49
(on second thought, the subway tunnels provide their own lab rats, don't they? in more than ample amounts.)
posted by jonmc 20 December | 11:52
They're letting people walk on the 59th St. bridge? I thought it was vehicular traffic only.

Great. That means I'd have to walk to the triborough and then about 150 blocks downtown. It just keeps getting better and better.
posted by jonmc 20 December | 11:57
If I posted "Gee, it's cold in Boston this morning" you'd be all "Who fucking cares what happens in Boston" and you know it.

You are in fact, wrong.

See if you said it was cold in Boston today, I would have just said, oh yeah, how cold is it? Did your ass freeze or I would have said nothing, because it didn't affect me. Gimme a break beantown, we get to talk about whatever the fuck we want. I love local stuff, I wish people would talk more about where they are from. I have no NY is the center of the universe problem, but it is the center of MY universe because I live here.


My walk was not bad at all, it was awesome in fact. The view over the bridge was stunning. I made breakfast and everything. Good times. I love adventures and trooping though.

The only problem is the random inconveniences, they are opening the schools two hours late (today the kid went to her uncles house so that's cool, tomorrow I have to take her in late), the bizzare cab fare thing, I heard you have to hop on one foot going east on odd numbered streets and walk backwards swearing in Persian on any street that Ernie Enastos calls out over the air, a la the hokey pokey.

Fuckers.
posted by Divine_Wino 20 December | 11:58
I heard you have to hop on one foot going east on odd numbered streets and walk backwards swearing in Persian on any street that Ernie Enastos calls out over the air, a la the hokey pokey.

On any given day there's ten guys in my neighborhood doing just that. Damn cabbies are gonna make a bundle. Of course most of the aforementioned guys are cabbies, so maybe they're just keeping it in the family.
posted by jonmc 20 December | 12:01
jonmc: the subway rats would mess up my experiments - they are way too smart ("you call that a maze, bitch?") Lab rats have been so domesticated that they are dumb as fuck. Plus, subway rats would eat me.
posted by gaspode 20 December | 12:02
The sex thread is on IRC. How quickly you forget.
posted by dame 20 December | 12:04
Wait podee, wouldn't that be a better reason to use subway rats? (The brains, not the eating.)
posted by dame 20 December | 12:08
mmm brains...

but more smart = less predictable for what I'm doing, so hard to generate replicable data and testable hypotheses.

Plus, more smart = more aggro = me not doing experiments because I'm getting my fingers sewn back on.

and I love my cuddly cutey white rats. I play with them and snuggle them and carry them around
posted by gaspode 20 December | 12:16
Is ferry service kaput as well?
posted by Cryptical Envelopment 20 December | 12:20
Ferry service is running I think.
posted by Divine_Wino 20 December | 12:37
The 59th st bridge is always open to foot traffic. Entrance is at 2nd Ave and 59th in Manhattan (NE side of the bridge, look for the bikes) and by the base of the bridge at QB plaza in Queens. It's a great walk... in the summer and spring. I used to walk home from Union Square to Astoria this past May.
Now walking the Triboro bridge, on the other hand, that's a mistake I won't make twice. Hideous, and looooooooong. Took me at least an hour walking on the bridge to just reach Randall's Island.
posted by Edible Energy 20 December | 12:49
No way! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!

I never knew that (obviously). Thanks, edible energy.
posted by Hugh Janus 20 December | 13:19
YIKES. That sucks...I don't know what I'd do if the RTA had a strike. (A CTA-only shutdown I could probably deal with...but if Pace and Metra were also shut down, forget coming in!)

Have parking-lot operators jacked up their rates?
posted by sisterhavana 20 December | 16:19
jon and other Astoria people: take the ferry from LIC to 34th st.--NY Waterways.

I walked (i'm not that far--just all the way across town--10th/35th to 42nd/Lex--a little over a mile each way)--it was ok (i sometimes walk home in the winter anyway), and the garment district has fun windows. I went by Bryant Park and the skating rink too--i'm dying to go.
posted by amberglow 20 December | 17:49
cabbies are raking it in, completely.

I heard you have to hop on one foot going east on odd numbered streets and walk backwards swearing in Persian on any street that Ernie Enastos calls out over the air, a la the hokey pokey.


yeah, that part was annoying. ; >
posted by amberglow 20 December | 17:57
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