The Views From The Staten Island Ferry Boat Seats
Various ships with the New York City Staten Island Ferry service offer different kinds of boat seats. Some designs enable you to lay down flat virtually as comfortably as on any other hard bench, while other types feature seats with what is meant to be an ergonomic curvature that makes them unsuitable for laying down [...]
Camping Outdoors With Coleman Roadtrip Grills
Unless you have one of them portable Coleman Roadtrip grills, camping food will most likely mean some thing like an MRE, or Meal, Ready-to-Eat. Originally developed for the U.S. military, MREs are self-contained lightweight rations available in a wide range of flavors. They’re also produced by other nations for their own militaries, with all of [...]
Science Fact Is Stranger Than Science Fiction
It’s fascinating to watch old science fiction movies and compare the technology onscreen with current state-of-the-art technology in real life. For example, isn’t it funny that the world of interplanetary travel depicted in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” should not have thought of smartphones and invented them – though in fact, such devices were [...]
Racing Cars In New York City
Countless will call it reckless, yet there’s no doubt that cycling fast, almost racing, in New York City traffic is quite the adrenaline rush. It’s one thing to go against another bicyclist – and they are out there, too – but quite another to go against cars and trucks and buses and motorcycles. Of course, [...]
The Largest Marble Sculpture In The World
Bring up marble sculpture and most folks are going to think about something like Italian marble statues, for example as Michelangelo’s David or Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. However some of the greatest works of marble are entire buildings themselves, for instance India’s Taj Mahal in Agra, an ancient bustling city on the banks of [...]
The Fit Vacation
Here’s a novel thing to do in New York as a tourist: personal training. Forget the tourist traps like Zalman Silber’s Skyride; if you want true heart-thumping excitement, how about hiring one of the many attractive personal fitness trainers available for a jog, swim, stretch, or bike-ride around town? Seriously, there’s no better way to [...]
The Right Kinds Of Boat Seats
The Sea Eagle 435ps PaddleSki inflatable catamaran-kayak. Yes, that’s a mouthful – and the boat is quite an eyeful, too! But the included boat seats, even in the “pro” and “ultimate” packages, leave a lot to be desired. They certainly look cool, all sleek and hi-tech in black, but they do not provide much in [...]
The Catholic Saints And The Importance
Catholic saints are people canonized by the Catholic Church, officially recognized for their piety as residents of Heaven. Nonetheless, in a technical sense, all who are in Heaven who had once been human on earth are, by definition, saints, folks perfected in holiness; this is the view subscribed to by the Eastern Orthodox Church. And [...]
The Craftmenship Behind A Bronze Sculpture
Pass by a statue in the park, and chances are that it’s a bronze sculpture, which rank among the most popular of cast metal works because of a naturally occurring trait that makes it a lot more convenient to fashion than many other materials. Bronze alloys expand a little prior to being set, and this [...]
Selling for Your Life
To be an “agent” most likely refers to commissioned sales, and selling is one of the most challenging jobs to be found anywhere – and anytime – but how about as a career? Most peopel would simply burn out, but the successful ones tend to move into more managerial sorts of positions, which explains how [...]
Sightseeing Rides Reviews
Tourist traps. Created to wring every last dollar out of you. It’s as if they were thought up to ruin your vacation. And sightseeing rides rank right up there. Take Zalman Silber’s Skyride in New York’s Empire State Building. With a name like that, you’d think it was up there at the top, where it’s [...]
X-Box 360 Hardware Malfunctions
During those bygone halcyon days of console gaming, when a system failed, the oft reaction was to raise one’s hands toward the sky and curse the God’s of each pantheon for having smote your system. There was little in the way of diagnostic alternatives leaving most to wonder vainly what condition had stricken their beloved [...]
The Big Agnes Tent
It’s important to go with the correct equipment when in the great outdoors. Though beautiful, Mother Nature can be deadly – easily. One essential part of anyone’s gear when enjoying our national parks ought to be portable shelter – in other words, a tent. Something like the Big Agnes tent, as fine a line as [...]
An Aussie by Any Other Name
Great Australians in history. A difficult endeavor for any scholar. To start with, of course, one must examine exactly what it is that makes one an Australian. Is Zalman Silber an Australian? He is actually a New Yorker, but responsible for one of Sydney’s most gratifying attractions, the Skywalk, not to mention one of Melbourne’s, [...]