tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223332252011-11-05T19:35:41.383-04:00BandwagonRyan Nantellnoreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22333225.post-54358757192649981492008-10-14T22:51:00.001-04:002008-10-14T22:51:32.740-04:00TestHelloRyan Nantellnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22333225.post-90430285186374661062007-07-18T22:35:00.001-04:002007-07-18T23:57:14.849-04:00Steam Explosion in Midtown ManhattanI’ll skip the prose, and get straight to the facts. I work at 605 Third Avenue in New York, at 40th Street and Third Avenue, on the 17th floor. That is exactly two blocks from the site of today’s burst steam pipe near Grand Central Station. My notes on the experience are as follows. Shortly before 6pm, I was busy trying to wrap up my work for the day, when my co-worker, Lindsay, in the Ryan Nantellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22333225.post-1157516794067343172006-09-06T00:25:00.000-04:002007-05-05T23:11:41.502-04:00Users Say: "I Want my Old Facebook Back"Facebook could be getting a lesson in the ways of the social networking landscape it helped pioneer. The site launched a bunch of new features today which are not going over as well as its creative team likely anticipated. An effort on petitiononline.com titled “Facebook.com Users Against the ‘News Feed’ and ‘Mini Feed’” had about 10,000 members at the time of this post. A group formed on the Ryan Nantellnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22333225.post-1156991908010572512006-08-30T22:02:00.000-04:002006-09-06T00:53:22.126-04:00Proud to be an American, Proud to Watch Countdown, Ashamed of My PresidentTonight, Keith Olbermann delivered a stirring, inspiring, and patriotic rebuttal to Donald Rumsfeld's speech to the American Legion yesterday. With delivery and conviction reminiscent of the man he also happened to pay homage to, Edward R. Murrow, Olbermann articulated what a majority of Americans are now beginning to understand; that our government long ago decided its most powerful political Ryan Nantellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22333225.post-1146190164469326632006-04-27T22:00:00.000-04:002006-04-27T22:12:59.973-04:00Yes, people actually said these thingsIf you’re like me, you’ve probably found yourself saying something in public that you regret or having risqué conversations in incredibly inappropriate places. Just imagine what the passers by must have thought about it . . .“I know you have eating problems.” Overweight guy on cell phone in front of Macy’s.“I’ve thought about working for an escort service.” Young woman to friends on the street inRyan Nantellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22333225.post-1139736646754168202006-02-12T04:28:00.000-05:002006-02-12T04:34:08.146-05:00A wise man once said . . .A wise man once said the following things . . . and that wise man was me:People need to chill the fuck out. Especially politicians.When ever I see those Girls Gone Wild commercials, I can't help but wish Spring Break was actually like that. Then again, I wish anything was actually like that.When I think of John Williams, there's no doubt I think of "whiskey-toned gruffness" . . . because you knowRyan Nantellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22333225.post-1139729533858391822006-02-12T02:30:00.000-05:002006-02-12T03:31:39.596-05:00If only I could have left Keanu out of itBegan Writing:Sunday, February 12, 200612:36 AMSo, when am I going to be able to plug my computer into my head?I’m serious. I want simple brain-to-computer communication YESTERDAY.The “old school” brain-to-fingers-to-keys/mouse-to-cursor-to-hard-drive method just isn’t cutting it anymore. That got outdated sometime between when video killed the radio star and the death of the original Napster.I Ryan Nantellnoreply@blogger.com0