I’ll be the first to say that calling NCAA athletics (at least men’s football and basketball) amateur is naïve. But they do try to propagate the illusion.
CBSSports.com, the NCAA partner, on their NCAA tournament scoreboard, for upcoming games shows the over/under and point spread. Even NFL.com doesn’t show gambling information, but “amateur” athletics does?
I understand that CBSSports.com is not the NCAA, but they might as well be.
Honestly, just pay the players…
I am officially old. My 12 year old went to see a big You Tuber, Meg DeAngelis. I, of course, have never heard of her. But she has 2 million followers and was doing a meet and greet in Manhattan:
My wife got the honor of standing in line with my daughter and four of her friends to meet her. Apparently they did a very nice job and the girls came back crazy excited.
I can’t even think of something analogous that I did at 12…
Jimmy Fallon’s story about the after party is amazing…
I’m a big Amazon Prime fan. The other day Danielle needed a new pencil case. We walked to Office Max, they didn’t have anything good. We came home, found a perfect Mickey Mouse one on Amazon (Danielle is a huge Disney girl), and two days later she has it.
These sorts of experiences are teaching me that waiting two days is worth it for the ease of just buying on Amazon.
But what if instead of two days, it was two hours? Would I ever go to a store again? Enter Amazon Prime Now.
It is currently only available in Manhattan and Brooklyn. You have to order through a mobile app and the items are obviously limited. But there’s a lot of stuff. My office has been cold lately so I wanted a small space heater. No problem.
You can actually get things in under an hour, but for that you pay $7.99. Free delivery strictly speaking isn’t in under two hours, you can order for the next two hour slot. So at 7:00 I was ordering for the 8-10 slot. And while free, the app recommends (and defaults to) a $5 tip for the delivery guy.
That being said, my heater arrived at 8:30. An hour and a half. Awesome.
One of those “master of the obvious” statements, but I’m next to my daughter who is doing her homework on her Chromebook saying “OK Google” to get information about Bedouins in the Middle Ages from Wikipedia.
Holy crap, the things our kids take for granted…
As a New Yorker, I’m a mass transit fan. But today may have been excessive. My commute (with a meeting in Washington D.C.) consisted of ten trains:
Then reverse those four trains coming back, except taking the A Train to Jay Street to pick up Danielle at school. Walk to my office in Dumbo (that could have been train #11, but we felt like walking the 3/4 mile), drop Danielle off at an art class. Then pick her up and head home:
For all that train time, it was relatively nice. The Acela is always civilized. The D.C. Metro is very quick, though strangely dark. Are we saving money on electricity? The NYC subway is dirty and crowded, but does an amazing job of moving people around.
Trains, trains, trains…
Here’s a fascinating account of a British gang robbing ATMs with explosive gas. US next?
Oh my, from the National Weather Service for the NYC area, including Brooklyn:
...CRIPPLING AND POTENTIALLY HISTORIC BLIZZARD TO IMPACT THE AREA FROM LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY...
* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 20 TO 30 INCHES...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. SNOWFALL RATES OF 2 TO 4 INCHES PER HOUR EXPECTED LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING.
I’m thinking the girls will get a snow day (or two)…
This is already viral, so you’ve probably seen it. An officer on dashboard cam jamming out to Taylor Swift…
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