“Will the lever voting machine never die? Though New York nixed the old machines a few years ago, they’ve still got them lying around, and now a few senators are pushing to get them reinstated for this year’s mayoral election. Yesterday, four senators proposed a law that would allow the Board of Elections to use the old voting machines instead of the new electronic ballots. The senators say they’re concerned the new machines wouldn’t be able to tally votes and be retested fast enough to handle the 14-day turnaround period between a primary and run-off mayoral election.” [Gothamist]

The horrible weather approaching New York City has me thinking about things like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNw2vSlT-B0

About 1 PM EST near my building – perhaps a white New Year’s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfoWz1BUdL4

What did I do? Went to Zabar’s housewares, of course:

Zabar’s housewares has many overpriced kitchen items for Manhattanites who don’t know how to use Amazon (sorry for wide angle, forgot to reset Hero 2).

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Thankfully all I see through my peephole is delivery guys:

Watch power to huge section below 39th Street go out about 12 seconds in:

Video would not upload for hours … but here it is now, totally out of any time frame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGOq4gp5TZQ