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the big pictures  Every weekday I post a big picture from somewhere along the way. I have posted daily pictures since 1999. Most of these pictures are from around New York City, but occasional travels bring pictures from elsewhere. Look for today's big picture, and big pictures from 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, and 1999 |
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stuff from my treo 700p Most of the time I carry a foldable wireless keyboard that I use with my Treo 700p. There is no automated spell-check, no computerized grammar suggestions, and no beautification of text with HTML or any other ML. |
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stories and things A new section of stories and things. |
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word of the day I tried a Word of the Day project earlier this year, but it got out of control. I wanted every story to run for several pages, and some of the stories took over a week to write. The object of my Word of the Day section is for me to write something -- anything -- on a regular basis. Sometimes I choose the words because I like the way they sound, and not because they mean anything to me. |
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random pictures and other random links This page shows one of almost 24,000 pictures every time you refresh it. I have several links to random things. The sorabji.com random link sends you to one of about 8,000 possible places on my web sites. The random "what are you doing?" link sends you to one of thousands of messages posted to that board. The random words is a creative writing prompt site that updates once a day with 1,000 random words and phrases with links to their definitions. The random USPS mailbox link sends you to a page detailing information about the location of a random USPS blue mailbox somewhere in America. |
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webcams Only one of these webcam views is updated at any given moment. Look at my face, look out my window, or look at my car. You can also look through webcams from years past, a haphazardly organized collection of home and office cams from my corporate youth. The earliest webcam images I have on-line are from January 29, 1997, but my first webcam was on-line in 1994 or 1995. |
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whois this? It's a picture of my face and links to stories about me and about this web site. |
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piano music I am a classical pianist and a composer. At present I am learning the entire "Well Tempered Clavier" of J.S. Bach, and I am writing piano pieces of various shapes and sizes. I do not record and share as much piano music these days as I have in the past, but I'm working on it. The piano music page has audio of me playing music by Frederic Chopin, Alexander Scriabin, Adolphe Henselt, Philip Glass, Charles Ives, and others. |
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who is sorabji? This page (which is badly in need of an update) attempts to explain why I chose the surname of the British composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji as the domain name for this web site. |
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dict.sorabji.com I had long wanted to set up my own DICT server, so I did. DICT servers abound on the web. Mine differs from most in that I added sources not found on other DICT sites, including Webster's 1828 English Dictionary and (most recently) I added the Dictionary of Ro to the mix. Enter a word or phrase and hit "go" to try it. |
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Receipt of the Day
Bakeway NYC, 25-21 Broadway, Astoria, NY 11104 (718) 545-2120 |
my receipts Thousands of my receipts from 1990 to the present. The last few posted receipts are: |
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weather All weather web sites are the same. I made my own so I could imagine I had some control over the weather. Like the dict server this weather station is one of several web projects I always wanted to do, but never got around to doing until recently. Enter a zip code, ICAO, or "City, State" combination. |
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abandoned baby carriages I can't decide if discarded baby carriages symbolize anything not already symbolized by other types of garbage. An abandoned baby carriage does not, after all, represent an abandoned baby. |
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payphone project A web site featuring payphone numbers, photos, news and information from around the world. I have payphone pictures from all seven continents, including Antarctica, Ghana, Afghanistan, China, Laos, New Zealand, The Vatican, Peru, French Polynesia and lots more. The phone booth on the left is from Nebraska, USA. |
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what are you doing? Long before venture capitalists courageous thought to build a business around the question sorabji.com hosted and continues to host a long-running communal monologue called "what are you doing?" Click for a random WAYD, browse the archives |
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stuff people write on money A site which helped clarify the mystery of "Free the Werewolves." This set might be more interesting if I worked at a job where I handled money. As it is, I occasionally spot currency with interesting things drawn or written on them. If I do not need to spend the money right away then I scan it and post it here. |
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faces of laos I scanned all the pages of this rare picture book. Faces of Laos is a collection of pictures taken in Laos during the early 1970s by photographer George Archer. It was published by Imprimerie Nationale in Vientiane, Laos, in August, 1973. I found no trace of this book in any library card catalogue or other reference source. Read more. |
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my drawings I do not draw very well, but I have fun trying. Once in a while I try to learn to draw comic book style caricatures. My real weakness is in never being able to draw the same thing twice. |
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cemeteries of nyc Pictures from my years of wanderings around New York's burial grounds. Look for: Old Calvary, Mt. Zion, St. Raymond's and the Billie Holiday burial site, Green-Wood and the Leonard Bernstein burial site, Mt. Olivet, and lots more: |
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where was vito corleone buried in "the godfather?" This was a fun project. A correspondent wrote to ask if I, being so familiar with Calvary Cemetery in Queens, could tell exactly where the funeral scene from the movie The Godfather was filmed. Indeed I found the exact spot where the burial would have been, and I re-created the funeral scene from that film (in still photos) with this series of then-and-now photos. If you are a fan of The Godfather who thought the film had been analyzed from every possible angle you will probably enjoy this. |
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flushing meadows corona park and other nyc parks It's a whole lot of pictures from Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, including the Unisphere, the Rocket Thrower, the New York State Pavilion, and a lot more. I also have sets of photos from other NYC parks, including Governors Island, Forest Park, Fort Totten Park, Rainey Park, and others that I'll link up some day. |
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mailbox locator In the United States? Use this web site to find a USPS Blue Mailbox in your area. Enter a zip code and hit "go" to see a list of mailboxes and post offices in that area. |
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webster's 1828 Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language is regarded by many as the finest English dictionary ever published. The dictionary is available in many forms. I made the content available here for my own purposes, out of personal admiration for this particular dictionary. This site uses simple search and Swish-e Search to make the 1828 Webster's Dictionary of the English Language available for free. Enter a word and hit "go" to try it. |
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nothing When someone hits nothing on this web site (i.e., a broken link/404 error), they have a chance to tell what they were looking for. Sometimes I add links. Look at nothing from 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. |
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full text of court cases This is my experiment in building and tweaking a search engine. I have wanted to do a project like this for some time, but available collections of content were scarce and/or did not interest me as much as this collection of court cases. These public domain documents were made available in February, 2008, by public.resource.org. At present this collection is searchable using Swish-e, albeit in a fairly rudimentary way. My project aims to use this large collection of text as a basis for comparing Swish-e and other search softwares. Search this collection by typing in a word or phrase and hit "go" to try it. |
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dictionary of ro Ro is an a priori language created by Rev. Edward Powell Foster. I transcribed the 25-page Dictionary of Ro for the benefit of anyone researching this interesting invented language. I would like to invent my own language. My language would not be spoken, only written. Lexical entities would express their meaning through placement, case, palindromicity, etc. I am studying Ro with the interest of inventing my own language. |
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universal whois lookup Another project I'd wanted to do for a long time: a web based WHOIS domain name lookup tool. Think of a word -- any word -- and see if there is a domain name associated with it. Universal WHOISes are not uncommon, but like my DICT server I think my WHOIS lookup differs from the rest by having more genuine port 43 WHOIS sources. |
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the place of general happiness It's my first real web site, with stories and other writings, started in 1994. I had another web page before this, in 1993, but it disappeared. Here you will find all the stories from 1995, 1996, and 1997, which include The Boner, Lost, An Open Letter to the Makers of Kool-Aid, The Lord, and What You Were Doing. |
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i'll add other stuff soon, the earlier page is here
the payphone project is © 1995-2009, Mark A. Thomas
the mailbox locator is © 2006-2009, Mark A. Thomas
sorabji.com is © 1994-2009 Mark A. Thomas
the mailbox locator is © 2006-2009, Mark A. Thomas
sorabji.com is © 1994-2009 Mark A. Thomas