Month: March 2010
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Snow Day in Edgewater
I’d better post these pictures before Spring arrives. These pictures were taken a few days before Christmas 2009, some from our balcony. The kids had a great day playing on a huge pile of snow in front our community’s Christmas tree. We really enjoyed living there.
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The Geography of Bliss: Happiness Scores
Continuing from yesterday’s blog on the book “The Geography of Bliss”, the author – Eric Weiner mentioned a World Database of Happiness that is maintained by Ruut Veenhoven at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It describes itself as a continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life. For this research project, happiness…
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The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
I finished this book last year in the summer and liked it a lot. The author described it as a “philosophical self-help humorous travel memoir.” Weiner was a veteran foreign correspondent for National Public Radio and traveled the world in search of the happiest places. This is how the book was described on his web site:…
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Bar 13 @ NYC Part 2
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r62hjQYFYKo&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1] Here is another video of Ollie working the deck at Bar 13. Very focused, he managed to ignore the drinks, girls, noise, and lights. I guess a DJ has to filter out all the distractions, and concentrate on counting the beats, lining up the tracks, … a matter of ear-hand-eye coordination. Ollie has a Serato…
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Bar 13 @ NYC Part 1
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvgSi4aS6SI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1] My friend Ollie went to DJ school last summer and had started playing at parties and bars downtown. I went to see him spin at Bar 13 (University Place and W13th St) before I left NY. Selina was his roadie-groupie/manager, bopping away, and handing out his business card. I gathered that DJ-ing in NYC is…
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Playing With Food
Is it me or can you see the silhouette of a city ? I wonder if the inventor of Lego was inspired by octopus. What do you think of when you see the image below ?