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what a nice story. great service, good opportunities and innovation ahead. Great iPhone app.
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the unbleeped version
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Pogue, in need of a cast for a video, sends out a tweet in Fairfield CT. People show up.
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I have only lately begun to wonder whether I’d use Twitter if I were fully at liberty to do what I liked...I’m not sure I’d use Twitter if I were rich....“Connectivity is poverty” was how a friend of mine summarized Sterling’s bold theme. Only the poor — defined broadly as those without better options — are obsessed with their connections....Nice, right? The implications of Sterling’s idea are painful for Twitter types. The connections that feel like wealth to many of us — call us the impoverished, we who treasure our smartphones and tally our Facebook friends - are in fact meager, more meager even than inflated dollars. What’s worse, these connections are liabilities that we pretend are assets. We live on the Web in these hideous conditions of overcrowding only because — it suddenly seems so obvious - we can’t afford privacy. And then, lest we confront our horror, we call this cramped ghetto our happy home!"
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April 30, 2009
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April 28, 2009
W at her first performance
On Sunday we went to see our friend Lizzie Scott's performance piece, the Styrene Fantastic, in the Movement Research Spring Festival. We headed out into the heat with me carrying W in a backpack not sure of what would happen. The festival was billed as a parade and we thought it would wind itself down Orchard Street and the galleries of the LES. Instead it turned out that it was actually a bunch of little performances in gallery spaces, which changed the logistics somewhat. We didn't want a hot and cranky 20 month old to ruin it for everone, so we carefully sat near the door. Much to our amazement however W sat rapt with attention with her hands around my neck with not a peep except for her amazing laugh when the dancers took pratfalls. It was a funny piece and her laughter woke up the crowd. A woman behind us told us she "was remarkable" and we couldn't have agreed more. B thinks it is because she met the dancers beforehand and because it was fairly short at 9 minutes. In any case it was a special moment. After the performance we went to get Malaysian food with B and I just beaming all the way. The performance was great too.
April 27, 2009
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April 17, 2009
I want to go to there: Octopus triptych
If I were working more and therefore allowed by Ms. B to purchase something large that we really don't need I think this Octopus triptych, featured on Coolhunting, would be on the list. Click through to see other animals and where to purchase it should you find yourself more unfettered by frugality.
April 16, 2009
Intrepid exploration of the Red Hook Grain Terminal
I just started reading Michael Pollan's, The Omnivore's Dilemma
I've always wanted to be the type of person who would go with a friend into a neat abandoned iconic building but I've been to frightened; of getting into trouble, of crossing hostile squatters, of getting injured out of range. So when I read about exploits like this, or trespassing on the Highline, or exploring the smallpox hospital on Roosevelt Island I read them eagerly. Hell, when you still could, I never rode the 6 around to see the City Hall station though I have postcards of it. The Grain Terminal is dangerous, the chutes go down 10+ stories, so Herman Yung's account is a good read for this armchair urban explorer. But he is only the latest urban archaeologist to do it. Jake Dobkin was there in 2007 and an old article in Curbed has a list of others.
April 14, 2009
My own little leasehold on Islay
In my household, as in many others, frugality is the rule of the day. One thing for which we make a small exception (for now) is our whiskey. While do moderate its rate of consumption we are still addicted to the peatier variety from the Scotland. So the other day after I bought a new bottle of Laphroig, I noticed that it came with the offer of a leasehold on a foot square plot of Islay. Normally I wouldn't bother reading the little booklet in the canister but...well, I was bored. It isn't a real leasehold with rights of ownership; peat cutting, grazing, or mining, but I do get a yearly rent in the form of a free dram if I visit. I don't quite understand the promotion since I'm already a fan but I think the whole thing is sort of cute. The online thank you gives you a satellite view with your plot and then they send the certificate by post. If Talisker were to come down in price then perhaps the fact that I'm a leaseholder might sway me to stick with them but mostly on a cold Spring day it is nice to fantasize about tromping around in big boots with a map, warmed by my rent.
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