The already fantastic Brooklyn Bridge Park got some new art recently. Much of it is unusually shaped orange benches. That may not sound like art, but in person it really fits in with the park beautifully.
I can’t embed NY Times video, but this page has a nice video of the artist exploring his own work.
This park just gets better and better…
I won’t be able to stay up to see the farewell show tonight, but as a long time fan, I liked this:
I’ve mentioned how much my girls like our Amazon Echo for music. But tonight they were being bickering sisters and couldn’t agree on a station. And they were arguing over a Demi Lovato station vs. an Ariana Grande station.
I mean, seriously, how different would those stations be?
So I said, “sorry, I choose the station”. They said, “no jazz” (because that’s what I really like). I know they like old Elton John (Crocodile Rock) so I said “Alexa play Elton John station”.
We got old classics. I skipped some marginal songs, but made them listen to anything really classic.
I had to skip some more and exceeded my skip limit, so we switched to the Pandora Elton John station:
So total bickering turned into an old classics dance fest. Pretty fun.
This video has been making the rounds of the tech blogs. Scott Galloway discusses Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and their future prospects.
Apple is discussed last, and his description of Apple’s progression into a luxury brand is highly amusing.
It’s worth 15 minutes of your time…
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…
Yum.
If you are a wheat beer fan, I would highly recommend this beer. But if you aren’t in NYC you won’t see it.
Brooklyn Greenmarket Wheat Beer is brewed from 70% New York State-grown wheat and barley. Drinking this lovely beer helps reinvigorate the state’s grain industry and benefit GrowNYC’s mission to support family farms, farmers markets, gardens, recycling and education. Greenmarket Wheat is as bright and refreshing as a sunny day. The Raw wheat gives this beer its zing, barley malt brings depth, and Belgian yeast lends complexity. Accented with orange peel, local honey and a dash of coriander, the beer is naturally carbonated by re-fermentation in handsome 750ml bottles.
For now, Brooklyn Greenmarket Wheat is only sold in New York City.
Sorry, rest of world, it’s delicious…
Ross Douthat has the best discussion of blaspheme and society I’ve read recently. He offers three premises:
Point 3 is the key one in this case. He writes:
…if publishing something might get you slaughtered and you publish it anyway, by definition you are striking a blow for freedom,
Read the whole thing…
From the NY Times:
“The Interview” generated roughly $15 million in online sales and rentals during its first four days of availability, Sony Pictures said on Sunday.
Sony did not say how much of that total represented $6 digital rentals versus $15 sales. The studio said there were about two million transactions over all.
Sony didn’t say, but the math is clear. Solve for X (number of digital rentals):
(6 * x) + (15 * (2,000,000 – x)) = 15,000,000
Not sure why the NY Times can’t do math, that would be about 1,666,667 rentals and 333,333 sales.
Not an unreasonable question. If you just won a Nobel Prize…
“They’re like, ‘Sir, there’s something in your bag.’
I said, ‘Yes, I think it’s this box.’
They said, ‘What’s in the box?’
I said, ‘a large gold medal,’ as one does.
So they opened it up and they said, ‘What’s it made out of?’
I said, ‘gold.’
And they’re like, ‘Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?’
‘The King of Sweden.’
‘Why did he give this to you?’
‘Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.’‘Why were you in Fargo?’”
Steve Fischer's Random Blog 