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Scenic Vista

(Battery Park)

We Had a Winner

Take a chance take a chance take a chukka chance chance take a chance take a chance take a chukka chance chance...

(Wall St & William St)

Tuesday Unlucky Rats (I Am, I Said)

As I was taking this photo to show how one can get used to anything in this City, including drinking Dr. Pepper next to stinky subway trash containers, a rat the size of my cat darted out from between them.

I leapt out of its way, barely a second before it would have climbed onto my shoe, crawled up the inside of my pant leg, chewed its way into my right front pocket, turned on my iPod's shuffle mode, listened to several tracks, made some snide remarks about Neil Diamond, and escaped by squeezing itself past the loose waistband of my baggy jeans.

As I stood there with a big grin of shock and relief at the fate I'd escaped, I could hear a couple with a baby next to me chuckle and say, "that's a big one."

(14 St-7 Av Station)

Monday Lucky Cats

(Great Wall Store, Canal & Broadway)

Cut Rate

(Fulton St & Ryders Alley)

Dunkin-n-Writin

(Dunkin Donuts, Hudson Pl, Hoboken)

FIRST Robotics Competition: Boom Box

Lastly, what's a teen event without loud music? This robot, which was built as a side project by the Pirates of George Westinghouse High School (BKLYN!), features a DVD player, a stereo, and of course, Earth-shakin' bass. The makers tell me they may attach an arm to it and enter it in next year's competition.

(Riverbank State Park)

FIRST Robotics Competition: The Pit

This is the Pit, where the robots are kept and repaired between matches.

(Riverbank State Park)

FIRST Robotics Competition: British Invasion

The Systemetric team hails from Hills Road Sixth Form College of Cambridge (UK, not MA). They've posted flyers with UK trivia all around the venue, presumably to help us dopey Americans understand their stange and exotic culture. I didn't see any flyers explaining their mysterious uniforms, however.

(Riverbank State Park)