At the beginning of every month I dump all the DCIMs (digital camera images) off my smartphone for backup and so if anything happens to the phone I don’t lose too much previous data. I then upload all the images I didn’t share on social or otherwise, here, for viewing.

I fell behind a few months, and furthermore took very few fone-photos from January to May; instead of uploading a few photos for each month I’ve compiled them all as sets, below.

For starters check out this cute kitteh’s polydactyl paws – because of these nubbins he had a bit of a staggered strut when he walked:

Dawwwww.

Here’s a simple ‘lifehack’ for making a catch-cup for drilling above somewhere where you don’t want the drill waste to fall below – in this case above my bed:

turning a plastic bottle into a drill waste-catch.

top cut

bottle cap drilled

too big actually, but drew where I needed the depth of the bit

ahhh easy

like that, no wood waste falls to the floor, but instead into the cup

evidence

Correct answer to that pro-Trump graffiti spraypainted on the sidewalk:

So the extremely chichi food mart where all the condominiums are being built near my home doesn’t carry a single bottle opener, but the totally non-chichi gas mart opposite the condominiums carries not one or two but three different bottle opener products, :

After all these years, my tofu is finally starting to get closer to what I expect of it:

Here are some wicked old-school repro maps I caught on someone’s walls:

Note how in really really old maps, Manhattan is always viewed left-to-right and the Hudson is typically referred to as “North River.”

Someone made these for the local coffee shop:

I’m all for ‘workers alliance’ but it is absolutely gutting to see Boris’s shoe shop gone for good:

So this thing totally works:

Thanks, mom!

Oh yeah, cool Orkin Craft scale model boat from waybackwhen:

And lastly the more-or-less random photos of everything else:

overpass used to be the tallest thing around these parts.

giant pizza slices

now that’s trust.

hoisted!

legendary drink

name workout

lift! pull! all the things!

preaction action action!!

Hallets Point park

hmmmm fascinating.

do not like

Orien is that you?

members only

insignia of the early birds

coffee ice cubes ftw!

was told to read

love you mom

donuts. coffee. CHOCOLATE!

the lonely view from Hallets Point Park

the composite ‘sphere’ image from atop the new Governors Island Outlook Hill on a day when no one else was around, not one person