This topic has certainly been more front and center recently. This video rather dramatically shows the inequality in the US.
Author: fish1964
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View From My Window
It’s getting really noisy. The guy way on the left has been using a jack hammer on that cement section. Those two guys in red are cutting into the cement.
And I’m pretty sure that tall thing in the back right is one of those pile driver things that makes deep holes.
I’m still not sure what all the big pipes are for, but that small excavator has been moving them around.
Can anyone recommend a good set of noise cancelling headphones?
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Everyone Works Part Time Now
Or not. The Big Picture is an interesting finance blog. I don’t agree with it all the time, but the advice on avoiding selection bias and other common investing fallacies is very good.
From today’s blog on investment strategy regarding Obamacare:
Since I have repeated myself so many times, perhaps I should try phrasing this somewhat differently: You better really, really enjoy your partisan politics & Fox News, because it is an incredibly expensive hobby if you are an investor.
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Modular Robots
I’m revealing how much of a geek I am, but oh my, this is cool. There’s a lot of geek speak here but get to at least the 2:50 mark where they start jumping.
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Your Sh**ty Commute
The context is that 37Signals is a well known software company. They have long promoted a few key concepts, including bootstrapping over taking VC money, actually charging users for software, and hiring the best people regardless of where they happen to live.
Their book Getting Real was excellent (and is now free in PDF).
Their book Rework was also excellent.
They have a new book coming out called Remote. Presumably to promote it, they are asking people to describe their shitty commute.
I can’t relate, because my commute rocks. Scooter or Citi Bike. 15 minutes tops, with my daughters half the way (en route to school).
The opposite of shitty…
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View From My Window–Jamie Foxx
Well, not really my window, I had to go to the architects office on the other side of the building for the right view. Jamie Foxx is definitely filming today (go full screen).
Jamie Foxx films Annie outside my officeThe view of the filming from a couple windows over:
Update:
As I went to get lunch they seemed to be setting up a scene with a “food bank”. The picture below is literally as I walk out my door. I could barely get around the camera.The line of people below seems to be a bunch of extras getting ready to fill those long tables in the back. The tracks in the lower right are for a camera to roll back and forth.
They were about to start shooting when the subway started rolling across the Manhattan Bridge. For those not familiar with Dumbo, it’s loud. So they had to wait to start the scene. I think this is Jamie Foxx’s “damn subway” face…
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Annie Filming Outside My Office
I didn’t even know they were doing a remake of Annie. They are filming right outside my office today. Security made it hard for me to even get to my office this morning.
I guess I should keep an eye out for Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz…
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Mo
I’m obviously biased as Mariano Rivera is my favorite baseball player ever (grew up in Milwaukee a huge Robin Yount fan, but he’s #2 to Mo). This is as good an historical overview on Mo’s career as I’ve seen. Courtesy of Joe Posnanski and NBC Sports.
Some highlights:
Mariano Rivera has been the perfect athlete in a time long after we stopped believing in perfect athletes.
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Think of the pitfalls today. One misstep. One misspoken statement. One insensitive tweet. One mistranslated thought. Celebrity life in the 21st Century is the wildest of high-wire acts, a thread-thin tightrope, fire above, no net below, and all the while people shoot pellets at your legs. Rivera did not just walk that tightrope. He danced on it. He did backflips on it. He did not just pass every test. He aced every test.
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People will always argue about the baseball greatness of Mariano Rivera. Much of the argument depends on the way you view baseball. If you view the ninth inning as a bomb that only the nerviest and most extraordinary people can defuse, then you probably see Rivera as an all-time great. If you view the ninth inning as just another inning, and view closers as specialists not unlike punters, then you might not see him as an all-time great. And there’s a lot of room in between.
But I do wonder if this misses the real story. How does someone close games in New York for 16 years and come out of it adored? How does someone who wears nothing but Yankees pinstripes his entire career — can you even picture Mariano Rivera without his Yankees cap on? — get honored at Fenway Park? How does someone in today’s Twittery, bloggy, First Take, Facebook, chat board, talk radio, GIF-infused world come out of a long career as universally beloved?
See, even people who loathe Mariano Rivera love him.
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