Cool graphic by Meghan Doherty.
Is it us, or is there a jam-packed ferry load of all kinds of crazy free stuff going on this summer? It’s looking like the best summer evah for Brokesters, and your busy elves at Brokelyn are putting all the fun stuff into a single list so you don’t have to reach for your wallet until September. We don’t want to miss anything, so if you’ve got a free concert, movie, Korean slider, bikini flash mob, horror movie series for toddlers… tell us all about it at our new email box just for free events: free [at] brokelyn [dot] com.
Looks fun enough
Okay, so maybe this isn’t for most of us, but if you happen to be gearing up for the NYC Marathon, you might jump all over it. There’s a bib (meaning a spot in the race) available for this Sunday’s (Sept. 19) 18-mile Marathon tune-up in Central Park. The owner “has to” work that day and “can’t” run the 7 a.m. race, so the spot’s up for grabs. Online registration for the tune-up closed at midnight last night, so this is a second chance to get in on the 18 miles of fun. Here’s the full listing.
The day PCs started coming factory loaded with trial software, I made the switch—after draining my bank account to buy a computer, the notion of also paying for software was almost offensive. It wasn’t hard at all, because I discovered a parallel universe of free, open-source software—which is collaboratively developed and modified by users rather than licensed by a single company—that you don’t have to be an IT guy to figure out. In recent years, open-source alternatives to bread-and-butter applications like Microsoft Office have become novice-friendly and in some cases, better than their commercial counterparts. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently, I’ve had to cut my book buying from a few new ones a month to just a few a year. Then I came across a new web site called www.paperbackswap.com—and it’s great. Basically, you sign up and post books you are willing to send out. For each book you send out, you get a credit you can exchange for a book from another member. To start, if you list 10 books, you even get two “free credits.” Your only cost is the postage for the book you send out (so don’t list the Oxford English Dictionary!) Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s one of the more curious finds on Craiglist’s free-in-Brooklyn’s boards over the weekend. Eighty 5-cent Ukrainian coins from 1992, doled out in pairs only. “2 per person so there is coins for 40 people, all you have to do is call me and come meet me in Brooklyn by train station Kings Highway on B and Q line …. if you need more coins bring someone with you :)” This sounds sketchy in too many ways to contemplate, all the more so because 10 cents Ukrainian is only worth 1.3 cents U.S., according to current exchange rates. We’re no expert on hryvnia, as the consonant-dense currency is called, but the 24 fake Christmas trees in Sunset Park seem like a better deal. With lights!
Pine needles or sap en brochette? Prospect Park photo by Karen Orlando, of the Outside Now blog.
The feast-happy foodies over at Issue Project Room tell are sponsoring a free (multi-course!) meal on Feb. 4, featuring foraged and gleaned local plants and animals. We’re not exactly sure what sort of vegetation to expect in the dead of February when even the feral cats are on the DL, so we’ll let hand it over to them:
Interested in eating a foraged meal but don’t have the time/mycological certification/emergency care insurance to forage yourself? Join Spurse at Issue Project Room on 2/4 for a mid-winter multi-course feast comprised of foraged and gleaned local plants and animals in UNIQUE preparations (think novelty, not decompo-stronomy). Read the rest of this entry »
Cool graphic by Meghan Doherty.
Is it us, or is there a jam-packed ferry load of all kinds of crazy free stuff going on this summer? It’s looking like the best summer evah for Brokesters, and your busy elves at Brokelyn are putting all the fun stuff into a single list so you don’t have to reach for your wallet until September. We don’t want to miss anything, so if you’ve got a free concert, movie, Korean slider, bikini flash mob, horror movie series for toddlers… tell us all about it at our new email box just for free events: free [at] brokelyn [dot] com.
Looks fun enough
Okay, so maybe this isn’t for most of us, but if you happen to be gearing up for the NYC Marathon, you might jump all over it. There’s a bib (meaning a spot in the race) available for this Sunday’s (Sept. 19) 18-mile Marathon tune-up in Central Park. The owner “has to” work that day and “can’t” run the 7 a.m. race, so the spot’s up for grabs. Online registration for the tune-up closed at midnight last night, so this is a second chance to get in on the 18 miles of fun. Here’s the full listing.
The day PCs started coming factory loaded with trial software, I made the switch—after draining my bank account to buy a computer, the notion of also paying for software was almost offensive. It wasn’t hard at all, because I discovered a parallel universe of free, open-source software—which is collaboratively developed and modified by users rather than licensed by a single company—that you don’t have to be an IT guy to figure out. In recent years, open-source alternatives to bread-and-butter applications like Microsoft Office have become novice-friendly and in some cases, better than their commercial counterparts. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently, I’ve had to cut my book buying from a few new ones a month to just a few a year. Then I came across a new web site called www.paperbackswap.com—and it’s great. Basically, you sign up and post books you are willing to send out. For each book you send out, you get a credit you can exchange for a book from another member. To start, if you list 10 books, you even get two “free credits.” Your only cost is the postage for the book you send out (so don’t list the Oxford English Dictionary!) Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s one of the more curious finds on Craiglist’s free-in-Brooklyn’s boards over the weekend. Eighty 5-cent Ukrainian coins from 1992, doled out in pairs only. “2 per person so there is coins for 40 people, all you have to do is call me and come meet me in Brooklyn by train station Kings Highway on B and Q line …. if you need more coins bring someone with you :)” This sounds sketchy in too many ways to contemplate, all the more so because 10 cents Ukrainian is only worth 1.3 cents U.S., according to current exchange rates. We’re no expert on hryvnia, as the consonant-dense currency is called, but the 24 fake Christmas trees in Sunset Park seem like a better deal. With lights!
