Rain, Rain Go Away!

We've had something like 6 days in a row of straight rain. There's lots of flooding all over the city and it's especially bad in NJ. In the Bronx there are large pockets of water where if you time it just right you can drive through it really fast, effectively drenching pedestrians. We had one guy nearly drown while walking on the sidewalk! A section of the Bronx had a whole wall collapse nearly causing a row of houses to come tumbling down. It's wacky out there I tell you.

A Chinese food delivery man was robbed in the Bronx on Monday, and was shot in the head. He later died today. I am so sick of these heartless bastards who would do something like this. Rob a man of his life, a family of their husband, a mother of his son. He was only trying to eek out an existence here. The worst thing is that immigrants who work in these low income areas are often on the recieving end of multiple types of abuse and discrimination. They rarely report it to the police because of language barriers, and an inherent fear of abuse from authorities. Asians experiance a different kind of discrimination because the extreme difference in appearance and language makes them so alien. They already tend to congregate together and do not often reach out to the community. I was fortunate that I was born here and was able to assimilate as a youth. I get so mad, I again volunteered to dress up like a deliveryman so I could help catch these bums, but they declined saying I was too stocky, not scrawny enough...Shit man, I love to have someone try to rob me.

In other news Apple computers have released another ipod. This one plays video, photos, home movies as well as music. To go along with the new hardware, Apple has also released a new version on itunes, (itunes 6), which now allows you to browse and purchase music videos, and even some tv shows. I like the concept, and they already have shows such as Desperate Houswives and Lost, but not too much else. A device like this would be great for people with a lot of free time, who don't have too much access to TV. Until they get some real movies or maybe sports shows on here, this is going to be very limiting. No one wants to pay $1.99 for shows that they could just set their Tivo's too. Maybe if you were planning to take a flight, this may be good to whittle away some time.