Guitarmageddon
On Tuesday night, I stayed in the city and saw my fiend and work colleague compete in Guitarmageddon, an annual guitar competition hosted by the Guitar Center here in New York. He played brilliantly but a showman who could play the guitar behind his back won the event. Here is a quick shot of the contestants:
My friend Steve is second on the right. You wouldn’t know it, but he’s a brilliant database developer and from what I’m told an amazing singer. My other colleague Derek took some amazing shots of the players, but I haven’t asked him yet if I can post his photos here.
A bunch of us from work went to the event and afterwards we went to eat at the Heartland Brewery in New York’s Union Square. I ordered a salmon sandwich which was “ok” and a couple of their fresh brews which were also, just “ok.”
On my way home, I snapped this photo of the Union Square sign in the subway:
When I got to Penn Station, I was greeted by the music of Nicola, who sings down here quite often. My 11–megapixel camera allowed me to discern her website.
Finally, I was fortunate to take this photo of the old LIRR flip-panel main display. Later in the week, it was replaced with an LED version. I’m sure that the new signs will be far more reliable, but it’s still sad:
