It’s a quirky neighborhood, but it is definitely photogenic. This just happened outside my office window. Random wedding party taking pictures.
This sort of thing happens all the time here…
Author: fish1964
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A Spectacular Day
We took the ferry to Governors Island today and spent the afternoon there. It was a gorgeous day. We rented a big quad bicycle, rode around, played. It was such a great day, but it’s a bit hard to explain why it was such fun.
If you don’t know Governors Island, it’s the largest of the three small islands below Manhattan. Ellis Island and Liberty Island (i.e. Statue of Liberty) are the other two. Governors Island was once a Coast Guard installation but no longer and the city finally figured out they should do something with it, so there are free ferries from Manhattan and Brooklyn and they’ve been improving the parks and the food.
The views are pretty great (Statue of Liberty):
They have a small fake beach with good food and drinks:
That’s the new One World Trade growing in the background on the left. But really this picture best sums up the day:
Flying kites on a beautiful day with my girls. Danielle actually said, “my cheeks hurt from smiling so much”.
It really doesn’t get any better.
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Ballet and Bounce
I haven’t posted any pictures of the girls in a while. This is Danielle following her ballet recital, on a friend’s roof deck in Brooklyn.
And this is Tori with her friend Mia at a birthday party at Bounce U in the hurricane simulator. Yes, that is claiming 78 mph winds.
They are getting big…
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Classic Simmons
Bill Simmons describes the Seattle Sonics ending up in Oklahoma City in traditional divorce terms. Oklahoma City is the 20 year old yoga instructor who steals the husband away, that you aren’t supposed to like. But the article ends up describing why the 20 year old yoga instructor turns out to be really awesome.
These people arrived a good 45 minutes early for last night’s Game 1 — and by “these people” I mean “everyone with a ticket”.
Just read it, it’s classic Bill Simmons…
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A Trillion and Counting
I’m not sure we needed any more proof that Amazon’s cloud capabilities are huge, but they just announced that their S3 storage just topped 1 trillion objects.
Not sure what to say other than wow…
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Star Trails
Beautiful pictures taken with long exposure from the International Space Station.
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Compared to Magical
Seth Godin has a nice blog today about product goals:
The goal ought to be to compare yourself not to the best your peers or the competition has managed to get through a committee or down on paper, but to an unattainable, magical unicorn.
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Sports and Parents
If you are a sports fan and you don’t read Bill Simmons, you should. He’s one of, if not the, best sports writers today. And I say that when he roots for all the teams I hate.
A recent post is about sports fans and their kids. Not the sports parents watching their kids play, but a parent teaching his kid to be a real fan.
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Unions
Unions are particularly out of favor these days. And for plenty of legitimate reasons. But here’s a very interesting chart:
I found this at Business Insider, not exactly a leftist pro-union site.
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Shoes
Since I know a few people with a somewhat excessive obsession with shoes, this xkcd comic cracked me up:
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