July 9, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
I just came back from Boston and I noticed that they still have a Circuit City box store with the Circuit City logo hanging on the exterior. I wonder how many of these still exist in the US (with empty parking lots in tow, of course). You can see a larger version of the image above at You’re My Favourite.
May 18, 2009 @ 7:08 am
Wow, I did not know you could do this inside Adobe Lightroom. This is great! I’m finding it increasingly unnecessary to open Photoshop especially when I’m doing batch processes like this to multiple photographs. So many hidden gems inside Lightroom! Yippee!
January 13, 2009 @ 9:08 pm
I really need to start explaining my tickets like Mr. Chi-City does in this video above. This is absolutely hilarious!
January 3, 2009 @ 1:38 pm
I got a parking ticket on New Year’s Eve because I thought it was Saturday since there were no cars on my street. It was a stupid mistake, but a mistake nonetheless that would cause me to be on the receiving end of a $115 fine. I’ve gotten parking tickets before so I knew the procedure, but I honestly forgot that the city will automatically reduce the fine if you challenge the ticket! It happened to my last ticket when I showed up in person and I’m expecting my $115 fine this time to be reduced as well when I challenge the ticket next week.
Any driver who challenges a parking ticket — in person, in writing or online — is offered a substantial, guaranteed reduction for most fines, under a program the city quietly introduced in 2005.
Plead guilty to parking at an expired meter in Midtown, for example, and agree to forgo a hearing, and the city will immediately reduce the fine from $65 to $43. No questions asked.
Well, that’s good to know! Unfortunately, the reduced fine for a Manhattan parking ticket is still quite expensive… :(
December 16, 2008 @ 10:50 pm
I’ve always wondered how they did away with the old parking meters once a city block was taken over by the new ticket-dispensing machines. Well, after seeing these pictures over at Vanishing New York I know that the process is actually quite brutal. There’s the jackhammer, and then the push and pull, and then, finally, a yank out of the concrete sidewalk.
December 5, 2008 @ 3:45 am
UPDATE: I just realized I spelled “SHINING” wrong, which makes this image even funnier than it’s supposed to be.
