I first learned about Manhattan Specials from a New Yorker friend about
25 years ago and, luckily, a local italian deli stocks them so I can still
get my occasional fix...but don't count on your average run of the mill
New Yorker knowing anything about them...I travel in and out of the
city a lot and have run into very few of the people I've worked with who
even knew of them let alone where to get them....now if they're caffeine addicts
like me, you could be in luck.
Manhattan Specials are an acquired taste and steer clear of the sugar free
version unless your taste buds are completely knocked out. The small
bottles are just the right size but for the true junkie they now have quarts.
Count on one quart keeping you up for the whole night.
They're the perfect compliment to a meal of sausages stuffed with peppers and onions
with a side of home fries. (The real deal...sliced thin and cooked golden brown with sweet
onions, not the over the top imitation diced crap polluted with paprika that some eateries
pass off as home fries!)
of converting seemingly divergent technologies and achieving roughly the same result as our G4 to x86 "pioneers" I turned my GMC SUV into a motorcycle by simply removing the two wheels on one side and then welding the spider gears in the differential so I had consistent power transfer with only one back tire "technically" touching the pavement and, Presto!, a motorcycle! Now all I have to figure out is how to suppress the shower of sparks from the dragging undercarriage and adverse attention I seem to be getting from everyone else on the road. (At least I don't have to go out and pass the test required for a motorcycle endorsement on my driver's license, at least until the DOT figures out what the hell I'm trying to accomplish.)
Opinions have been news since the advent of journalism...the best forms of which hide it the most effectively. If you're in the good ol' US of A this may come as quite a surprise...if you've been consuming US based news products from outside our wonderful free market capitalism utopia and have half a lick of sense, it's just another day....
A few years back a "New Yorker" article discussed the work of an Austrian scientist who looked very hard at the issue of left handedness...being left handed I read it with great interest. The gist of his theories revolves around left handed people not necessarily being the result of any evolutionary process but more as accidents of birth. One theory he promotes hinges on the phenomenon of "mirror twinning". Essentially, a monozygotic twinning has the potential for the twin pair members to be "mirror" copies of one another instead of identical. The one being right handed and the other left. In this fashion it is felt that any left handed person born alone is possibly the result of a mirror twin pregnancy where one member of the pair was non-viable for whatever reason. This theory seems to make the most sense so far in that no specific gene(s) pertaining to left handedness appears to have been isolated to date.
A very good guess. By cutting out a section of each image that would be subjected to any sort of localized change in light levels and taking a histogram for each it is possible to see that there was one level of ambient light in that region, a flare up due to the event and then after, the light level is lower. This would be consistent with the observed behavior for any excited gas or metal filament based light fixture dying off and then no longer contributing to the light available in the area. The color of the flare up is consistent with the color of light emitted by those sources nearby where a bulb is directly visible. The light in the process of failing is in a housing that would not allow the bulb to be directly visible from any direction not below the street light itself, probably due to being right on the water. The streak and other phenomenon in the vicinity of the flare up are likely artifacts generated by the camera design.
Also, the article indicates that the light fixture itself was not damaged but the bulb was inoperative. This would be the most compelling reason to support the theory of a catastrophic light source failure being captured by pure coincedence over any other.
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I first learned about Manhattan Specials from a New Yorker friend about 25 years ago and, luckily, a local italian deli stocks them so I can still get my occasional fix...but don't count on your average run of the mill New Yorker knowing anything about them...I travel in and out of the city a lot and have run into very few of the people I've worked with who even knew of them let alone where to get them....now if they're caffeine addicts like me, you could be in luck. Manhattan Specials are an acquired taste and steer clear of the sugar free version unless your taste buds are completely knocked out. The small bottles are just the right size but for the true junkie they now have quarts. Count on one quart keeping you up for the whole night. They're the perfect compliment to a meal of sausages stuffed with peppers and onions with a side of home fries. (The real deal...sliced thin and cooked golden brown with sweet onions, not the over the top imitation diced crap polluted with paprika that some eateries pass off as home fries!)
of converting seemingly divergent technologies and achieving roughly the same result as our G4 to x86 "pioneers" I turned my GMC SUV into a motorcycle by simply removing the two wheels on one side and then welding the spider gears in the differential so I had consistent power transfer with only one back tire "technically" touching the pavement and, Presto!, a motorcycle! Now all I have to figure out is how to suppress the shower of sparks from the dragging undercarriage and adverse attention I seem to be getting from everyone else on the road. (At least I don't have to go out and pass the test required for a motorcycle endorsement on my driver's license, at least until the DOT figures out what the hell I'm trying to accomplish.)
Opinions have been news since the advent of journalism...the best forms of which hide it the most effectively. If you're in the good ol' US of A this may come as quite a surprise...if you've been consuming US based news products from outside our wonderful free market capitalism utopia and have half a lick of sense, it's just another day....
A few years back a "New Yorker" article discussed the work of an Austrian scientist who looked very hard at the issue of left handedness...being left handed I read it with great interest. The gist of his theories revolves around left handed people not necessarily being the result of any evolutionary process but more as accidents of birth. One theory he promotes hinges on the phenomenon of "mirror twinning". Essentially, a monozygotic twinning has the potential for the twin pair members to be "mirror" copies of one another instead of identical. The one being right handed and the other left. In this fashion it is felt that any left handed person born alone is possibly the result of a mirror twin pregnancy where one member of the pair was non-viable for whatever reason. This theory seems to make the most sense so far in that no specific gene(s) pertaining to left handedness appears to have been isolated to date.
A very good guess. By cutting out a section of each image that would be subjected to any sort of localized change in light levels and taking a histogram for each it is possible to see that there was one level of ambient light in that region, a flare up due to the event and then after, the light level is lower. This would be consistent with the observed behavior for any excited gas or metal filament based light fixture dying off and then no longer contributing to the light available in the area. The color of the flare up is consistent with the color of light emitted by those sources nearby where a bulb is directly visible. The light in the process of failing is in a housing that would not allow the bulb to be directly visible from any direction not below the street light itself, probably due to being right on the water. The streak and other phenomenon in the vicinity of the flare up are likely artifacts generated by the camera design. Also, the article indicates that the light fixture itself was not damaged but the bulb was inoperative. This would be the most compelling reason to support the theory of a catastrophic light source failure being captured by pure coincedence over any other.