I saw my first car accident yesterday. Luckily, it was pretty minor. Some guy in a SUV rear-ended a cab that for some reason stopped at a green light. He didn’t hit him very hard, but it was hard enough to crack his bumper. Cab man didn’t look very happy and bearded man in the SUV looked, well, kinda indifferent.

Edit:  I think I left out some words =P  The accident happened on the other side of the street as I was walking. I’ve seen the aftermath of accidents before, but I’ve never had one happen in front of me.

-Justin

As I was leaving work yesterday, I heard a bunch of fire trucks and sirens and all that stuff, which is pretty typical.  But then when I got outside, I noticed that everyone was stopped on the sidewalks and pointing up.  That isn’t typical.  I tried to follow other people’s pointed fingers to what exactly everyone was looking at.  First thing I thought was that it was someone on a roof about to jump, so I looked around at the roofs.  Nothing (luckily).  I looked around at the sides of all the buildings and then there he was, Mr Orange Pants, climbing up the side of the New York Times building.

At that point, he was about 30 stories up and still climbing.  I watched him for about a minute until I decided that I didn’t wanna see him fall if he did, so I stopped watching and continued on

The funniest part is that he was the second guy to climb it that day!  I was totally unaware of the first man until later when I read some news stories.

Here is a spiffy link made clickable by the interwebs: news story

Only in New York City.

-Justin

I’m watching Swordfish right now.  I think I actually do like this movie, but right now, the main scene where Hugh Jackman is programming the worm is on and it’s hilarious.  It makes programming seem action-packed and exciting.  There are all these colors and visual representations of his code on the screen as he pounds away at the keyboard.  There was a program that showed up on the screen as he was doing his thing.  It was a worm generator tool.  How convenient! He occasionally stands up and smiles as he programs his masterpiece.  He gets angry as his code somehow falls apart due to some oversight of his.  It’s great.

-Justin