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This is from Boing Boing: looks like pretty soon my flea training process will be obsolete! =============== Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Robotic jumping flea UC Berkeley researchers are designing a millimeter-long robotic flea that uses a tiny rubber band to launches itself into the air. The current prototype is seven millimeters long and tests have…

Well, as I expected, I did not win the truck contest. Perhaps I should have gone with “The Magic of Recycling” I’m not really that disappointed– although it would have been very cool. They haven’t shown the photos or proposals of what was given, but when they do, I will follow up with either photographs…

Opened my Internet connection today to find a big article on Yonkers/Park Hill in the NY Times! We live just down the hill from Park Hill, in the oft forgotten section of town. (mentioned in the article as “the poverty-ridden southwest section of Yonkers”) As the crow flies, it’s about a quarter mile. But as…

We spent the weekend at my mom’s house which was great and a lot of fun. Stephanie had never been to Newport before, so we gave her the driveby mansion tour. She was definitely oohing and aahing at all of the amazing architecture– and she hasn’t even seen the inside! We’ll definitely go back at…

The weather has been extremely cold, and that means that the house has been surprisingly cold. I go around the house, wearing my sweater, putting my hands around every opening in the house (doors and windows), and trying to figure out where needs to be caulked. I’m not very good with a caulk gun, but…

The City of Yonkers’ Office of Economic Development sponsored a contest/competition to transform garbage trucks and recycling trucks into “mobile art galleries” Although I’m not an illustrator, I entered the contest with the concept of a “Recycling Circus” Truck. My idea is that the trucks should be brightly colored, fun to see, and generally cross-connect…

Last night it snowed like the dickens, and snow means that my home owner duties are calling. What it means that I have to get up at the crack of Oh Dark Thirty to shovel. Sadly, that snow doesn’t shovel itself. The good news is that unlike the Valentine’s Day Snow-(which was a hateful, awful…

So Stephanie was gone this past week (in California at a conference and visiting her brother, sister-in-law, and their baby boy B). So I had the house all to myself. Well, almost. You see there is this cat… Joey… that is Stephanie’s best beloved. And not mine so much. We vie for Stephanie’s affection. In…

Stephanie and I have often lamented about the lack of Fresh Direct here in Yonkers (Fresh Direct is a NY based service started by one of the founders of our favorite market Fairway that delivers fresh food to you for not much of a charge. It’s a very convenient way to get food delivered, and…

Great article in LoHud regarding a new artist initiative in Yonkers. Naturally, this is something that I’d like to get involved with. If you want to get involved, too, the Yonkers Arts Council Committee will meet 5:30 p.m., Feb. 12 at Philipse Manor Hall, 29 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, to continue its discussions. For more information…

So a few days ago we stopped into our local Taqueria for some food to go, and while we were waiting, we saw, not one, not two, but three anglos in the taqueiria as well. Stephanie and i have both taken it as an omen of the coming Gentrification (although we also have taken into…

I’ve been making my trek back and forth to Providence for the last couple of weeks, getting Bright Night ready (and now doing all the necessary clean up for the festival) I often stop at the Stop-n-shop for Gas, but usually I pay by credit card. This time, I decided to pay by cash—. Fortunately,…

Hi everybody– Just to let you know that the Yonkers Recycling schedule for 2007 is now available, so if you happened to be relying on this image (versus the cityofyonkers.com pdf, then this is the one you should be looking at. Click the image to make it larger.

I apologize to our readers who have been looking forward to updates about our Yonked existence. I’ve been subsumed by my work on Bright Night Providence, the New Year’s Eve Festival in Providence that I’m responsible for. This year has been the test year to see if I can run it from far away, and…

So I received a new computer from Apple without paying for it…. ASK ME HOW! I was fortunate enough to buy a reconditioned emac about two years ago that served me well, but about 1 month ago started having problems with it. It was having video problems, freezing unexpectedly, not working properly. I thought it…