If you aren’t familiar with this web series, the formula is simple. Jerry Seinfeld gets a crazy fast car (with cameras and mics mounted), picks up one of his comedian friends and they go for coffee and have a relatively hilarious conversation. That’s it.
This one (with Chris Rock) is one of the better ones and the car is unbelievable (and Jerry gets a speeding ticket, which is also amusing)
A great Little League sign, courtesy of Slate:
Danielle is 10, so leaving in real terms is a good 8 years away. Sleep away summer camps are very popular in the Northeast, but Danielle hasn’t been interested and we certainly aren’t pushing it.
She’s spent 3 nights at my wife’s sisters place and 2 nights with school camp and 2 nights with Girl Scout camp. That’s it.
But she’s been pushing for independence. Going to school last year she often asked to go by herself. A half mile in downtown Brooklyn, sorry, not happening. About 3 blocks from school I let her scooter off by herself. I can see her.
We have a French pastry place next door (seriously good croissants) and they do ice cream in the summer. So I let her take my money and Victoria and they go by themselves.
I will let her go by herself to the deli across the street. That might seem harmless if you didn’t know our street. Atlantic Avenue is a major Brooklyn street. My wife isn’t in love with this idea. Our neighbor with an 11 year old doesn’t let her daughter do that. But Danielle does it fine.
Danielle’s best friend Mackenzie moved to Florida several years ago. They have stayed in touch, visited in both directions and in general stayed best friends. Mackenzie has spent the past two weeks with us while they both do a gymnastics camp in Manhattan. It’s been very fun having Mackenzie stay with us. They are clearly best friends. Her mom is here in Brooklyn, but staying a few blocks away in an apartment.
So next week, Danielle is going to Florida with Mackenzie. Not with us. She’s flying with Mackenzie’s family and my wife will fly to Florida next weekend to pick her up. So pretty much a week away.
It’s pretty much sleep away on training wheels since she’s just staying with family she knows in a place she knows (and it’s a really nice place). But it’s the first time she’s been away this long.
I’m fine with it. Danielle is a mature 10 year old and can easily handle it. My wife? We’ll see…
I love science. Really love it. All sorts of geeky science. So you would think that an experiment that started in 1944 and is just now producing results would just have to be fascinating (click the link).
Or not.
Thankfully the video is only 17 seconds (I’d embed it but boring science doesn’t use YouTube), But seriously, this has a cult following?
It was odd seeing Mariano Rivera in the 8th inning of the All Star Game, but I get Leyland’s plan to make sure he got a full inning and a special moment.
If I could embed this MLB video, I would.
For Mo’s farewell season, every time he visits a stadium for the last time, he has asked the opposing team to let him meet with regular behind the scenes stadium workers and fans.
I was wildly intrigued with the concept,” Dipoto said. “Most guys are content to travel around from city to city and let the fans and clubs adore them. Mo has gone around telling the fans and the people behind the scenes how much he adores them. That’s unheard-of. It’s one of the neatest things I’ve ever seen a player do. – Jerry Dipoto, Angels’ general manager
It took less then 4 weeks to hit 1 million miles. In less than 7 weeks Citi Bikes have gone on more than 1 million rides.
https://twitter.com/CitibikeNYC/status/356401571078225921
It’s getting hard to argue that Citi Bike isn’t a smash hit. Citi Bike locations are even showing up in real estate ads.
Proof of the media’s intelligence (or lack thereof)…
I walked into our apartment tonight to hear my girls listening to the Counting Crows version of “Big Yellow Taxi”.
I’m the son of a liberal Protestant minister. I was born in the 60’s. You can make many assumptions based on those facts and they are probably all true. One of which is that I grew up on folk music. I grew up on the music of Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie (Woody also), and also Joni Mitchell.
What, you thought the Counting Crows wrote that song? It’s over 40 years old.
It has always been a great song (and I do really like the Counting Crows version). Joni Mitchell has always been a great song writer.
Later, Tori and one of Danielle’s friends were practicing gymnastics moves to “Sweet Home Alabama”.
The original.
Now I didn’t grow up in the South, but as a teenager I did test my stereo speakers on Lynyrd Skynyrd full blast.
So amusing to see my kids listening to the music of my youth.
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