My Excellent iPad Adventure — By Dan Frommer (Photo Essay)
After spending this morning looking at pictures of people standing in line waiting to buy Apple iPads, I couldn’t take it any more.
So I got on the train, went into Manhattan, and got one!
It was surprisingly quick. From the back of the line to paying only took 15 minutes.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/my-excellent-ipad-adventure-2010-4#ixzz0kABsPdny
Red Hook in Reverse — Brooklyn, N.Y.
Pizza from Roberta’s in Bushwick
Sakura Red Hook — Brooklyn, N.Y.
One of the best things I ate on my last trip to Japan: This cheap steak at Steak Hanamasa in Tokyo’s Ginza district.
I ordered from (and paid) a vending machine, and then presented my ticket to a server. A few minutes later, the steak basically came out raw (with butter on top) on this hot cast iron plate. I stir fried it until it was cooked, and then doused it with that sauce. Served with bean sprouts, green beans, and rice. And, of course, a beer.
Excited to be going back to Japan next week. Plenty of photos to come.
Bratwurst Breakfast — Prime Meats — Brooklyn, N.Y.
Poobahs On The Road: Dirty Dog
Benit das Dog gets a well needed bath in the sink.
The crazy auto-cleaning toilet seats at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport are finally catching up to American waistlines.
Sometime within the last few months, the toilets in American Airlines’ Terminal 3 got an upgrade, and the seats are now a few inches longer.
It no longer feels like you’re borrowing a toddler’s Fisher-Price potty chair. There is still, however, the weird feeling that you are squatting on a grocery bag.
According to this Knight News Service article, Chicago first installed the automatic plastic seat cover system in July, 1993, as a way to promote hygiene without clogging toilets with paper seat covers. (Side note: This is the first time I’ve ever seen a Google newspaper scan show up in search results like this. Cool.) Some 600 toilets cost the city $350,000 to install, or about $580 each.
The first system was by Swiss-founded Hygolet, which may explain the small size. But the one in my first picture is a Sani-Seat, made by New Jersey-based North American Hygiene. I didn’t get a chance to check out who makes the new ones — knowing Chicago, probably a distant cousin of Mayor Daley — but they seem to be better all-around.
