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8.04.2009

Bike Anger Poll Results Are In

Who pisses you off the most as you bike around? (vote for a few if you got alot of hate)

no one! stop hatin! 2 (12%)
white hipster bikers 2 (12%)
old asian pedastrians 2 (12%)
small dogs 4 (25%)
cops and cop cars 10 (62%)
hasidic minivan drivers 8 (50%)
german tourists 0 (0%)
taxi cabs 3 (18%)
bike lane parkers 7 (43%)
african dollar vans 0 (0%)
bikers in flipflops 3 (18%)
Votes : 16

Results are in and surprise surprise, everyone hates the cops. And I guess this poll was a bit geographically biased. I'm sure we could have included rednecks in big trucks with gunracks or daddies little girl in an $80,000 beamer that cant drive for shit etc... I guess there is a fine medium that needs to be drawn between goin crazy like these dudes:

and getting tattoos like this:

I just really needed an outlet for that ugliesttattoos pic, glad i could squeeze it in here.

We'll try and go for a lighter topic on the next one. Maybe whats your favorite falafel or something. kittens vs puppies? sunshine vs cool breeze? hmmm

8.03.2009

fresh and clean

lush, clean single track somewhere in the Bronx.

Sometimes I wish

Sometimes life is not fair. Here I am, updating this blog, but what I really wish I was doing was checking out some fine bootey somewhere exotic and nice, like, say, Ipanema beach in Rio, Brazil or something. Wouldn´t that be nice.......

Oh, wait, thats right, I AM ON IPANEMA BEACH RIGHT NOW CHECKING OUT FINE BOOTEEEEY!

BOOM.

NYC - see you in 2 weeks :)

PS: maybe I should go to a favela funk party tonight, till about 5am ...... ahm..... damn it, didn´t I do that last night? (c$ick - you woulda loooooooooved this spot) I guess its boat party tonight then, just gotta make sure to rest up for a bit of hang-gliding tommorow afternoon :p Vacations RULE!!!

HFT

High speed stock trading using supercomputers and specialized algorithms - a step aside from hip-hop and knife fights. It's good to know that wall street, after pulling off their latest trillion dollar scam, has been milking the market in another un-regulated way.

Ars has a great write-up outlining what "high-frequency trading" is and how it works.

Paul Krugman also has something to say about it.

Gordon Gekko would be proud.

Brooklyn, Sometimes We Go A Bit Too Hard

An argument at a Brooklyn party early Sunday exploded into a vicious knife fight that put nine people in the hospital, police said.

Blood was spattered across the sidewalk on Fulton St. near Euclid Ave. in East New York after the sprawling melee, which spilled into a nearby subway station.

"Two girls started arguing and then a dude stepped in and just started waving a knife around," said John Velasquez, 19, a bystander who was injured in the 1:45 a.m. brawl. "He was really drunk."

Then one of the girls pulled out her knife, Velasquez said.

"That's when it got really bad. There was blood everywhere," he said. "I tried to stop the guy from going after the girl with a knife. What does a guy have to go after a girl for? That's when he cut me - two times in the hand."

Livery cab driver Jesus Cabrera, 39, said he saw a teenager being chased into the elevated train station.

"He was running for his life up the stairs," Cabrera said.

Police said nine people in all suffered stab or slash wounds.

Two of the victims, whose ages range between 18 and 48, were women. Five people were taken to Brookdale University Hospital and four were treated at Jamaica Hospital. None of the injuries was life-threatening.

No arrests have been made.

Turn the volume down a bit folks. I aint sayin you gotta be like these dudes, but ya don't always have to blast it at 11.

8.01.2009

RIP Baatin 2.0

Just learned of Baatin's passing from Donde's post below....this song immediately came to mind. its one of my favorite (top 3) Slum songs, which oddly enough doesn't feature Baatin but is all about him and some of the group's struggles from a few years ago. i'd heard that they were reuniting so i'm definitely looking forward to that new album.