This is a great interactive article. I have issues with it because they consider Stella Artois (the Bud of Europe) to be as good as Guinness on draft, but overall the ratings seem good.
As a Yankee fan, the Yankee Stadium rating is embarrassing, but not unexpected. The beer there just isn’t good. What is especially bad is that there is a great brewery in Cooperstown, NY, Ommegang. Cooperstown? Home of the Baseball Hall of Fame? Hello?
Anyway, wherever you go, try to drink good beer.
Hat tip to Barry Ritholtz on this one. There’s a new movie, Get on Up about James Brown, but why watch impersonators when you can watch the Godfather of Soul (you have to be amazing to get two cool nicknames) for real, 50 years ago.
If you don’t have time for the full 18 minutes, start around the 15 minute mark and watch his feet.
I have no idea is this is legit (hey, it’s on the internet, it must be true), but it’s amusing…
http://np.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/2cm5xt/am_i_a_bad_person_for_this/
So a while ago I had decided to treat myself and go to Burger King. I hadn’t had the greatest of days and I had a headache coming on. It was a very long line and I was at the end of it waiting patiently. When behind me comes this woman yapping on her cellphone with a little monster of a child. This kid was out of control, screaming, punching his mother throwing around a gameboy whenever something didn’t go right in the game. The mother didn’t seem to pay any attention to him and his continued yelling of ‘I want a Fucking PIE’. After about 5 minutes of the line with these people behind me, I had gone from a headache to a full on migraine, but nothing was going to stop me from getting those burgers. I calmly turn and ask her nicely if she can please calm or quiet her child down. Immediately she gets up in my face telling me I can’t tell her nothing about raising her child and to mind my own business. I nod and turn around, shes still yelling at the back of my head when the child cries out again how he wants a pie, the mother consoles him, calling him sweety and ensuring they’ll get pies for lunch because she loves him so much. Things immediately go back to the they were and I wait another 5 minutes before getting to the front of the line. It turns out it was so slow because they had 1 trainee on cash during the lunch hour rush. All I can think of is how the people behind me ruined my splurge and gave me this headache. I then decide to ruin their day. I order every pie they have left in addition to my burgers. Turned out to be 23 pies in total, I take my order and walk towards the exit. Moments later I hear the woman yelling, what do you mean you don’t have any pies left, who bought them all? I turn around and see the cashier pointing me out with the woman shooting me a death glare. I stand there and pull out a pie and slowly start eating eat as I stare back at her. She starts running towards me but can’t get to me because of other lineups in the food court. I turn and slowly walk away.
Today’s Google Doodle is an amusing tribute to John Venn (of Venn diagram fame). I liked it a lot.
Then I realized it’s Louis Armstrong’s birthday and he’s never (to the best of my knowledge) had a Google Doodle.
Venn diagrams are useful, but c’mon Google, Satchmo…
The NY Times has an interesting article about restaurants near hospitals. It talks about my favorite joint, the Waterfront Ale House (there are two, one in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn).
Several people recommended the Waterfront Ale House in Kips Bay, a popular option for the families of patients at both NYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue, along with the hospital staffs. It has become a bona fide foodie destination as well, thanks to the celebrity chef April Bloomfield, who has professed her love of Waterfront’s hot wings everywhere from Food & Wine to The Financial Times. Waterfront’s owner, Sam Barbieri, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, and operates a smoker in Brooklyn, where the ale house has another branch.
Amusingly, while I was at my favorite joint, my favorite bartender showed me that article and gave me my favorite beer. Then I read my RSS feed on my phone and saw this:
The beer I was drinking.
From Business Insider: How 16 Of The Oldest Companies On Earth Have Been Making Money For Centuries
Conservative columnist George Will discussing the Central American children coming into American illegally:
We ought to say to these children, ‘Welcome to America, you’re going to go to school and get a job and become Americans,’” Will said on the Sunday morning show. “We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 [children] per county. The idea that we can’t assimilate these 8-year-old ‘criminals’ with their teddy bears is preposterous
For the record, Kings County (Brooklyn) could handle way more than 20…
I liked this post on innovation.
Kids brains are so malleable even through teenage life, so it is important that strong connections be formed. What types of connections? Spatial awareness, complex imagination, and curiosity.
These are the values that Lego bricks instill in young kids.
I would argue that today’s LEGO is way too much, “here are the exact things you need to build X and here are the instructions”. When I was a kid we had a big box a LEGOs and just made whatever we could come up with.
Innovation requires creativity.
Which brings me to an old favorite, John Cleese discussing creativity (long but good).
Or more accurately, more holes in walls. The saga continues. We are up to four holes and our superintendent “thinks” he knows where the leak is now.
So tomorrow morning he comes back, shuts off water in our kitchen, and hopefully fixes it. Because this is getting old…
Retweeted by @fmanjoo from @simonpalomares.
https://twitter.com/simonpalomares/status/494104585712046080
For the tiny minority who care about my personal blogs, an update to the Floors Should be Flat post.
The follow up truth is that the leak was not due to their dishwasher and the “fact” that they had a dishwasher leak wasn’t even true. That was a big fat red herring.
The reality is that the building has a pipe leak somewhere which caused both leaks. Unfortunately they haven’t figured out exactly where the leak is.
So now we have two holes in our walls to expose the pipes that are leaking (but only occasionally). Our superintendent cut them but couldn’t determine the cause this afternoon so he’s showing up early tomorrow because the leaks seem to be caused by showers upstairs. Hopefully he can figure it out.
The good news is that the building will pay for all of this. The bad news is that it’s going to get worse before it gets better…
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