Great articles of fun and random things.

Scored A Baseball At The Mets Game!

April 25, 2012

I scored last-minute tickets to the first in a three-game series of the Mets versus the Marlins. We got great seats behind the visitor dugout adjacent third base. I originally got two tickets, and then got two more. So I brought the entire family. It was Celeste’s first game and Julian’s third (and this wis was his first). [...]

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Spring Break Ghost Town

April 12, 2012

Each morning, I push my son and daughter in a double-stroller to their preschool, before hopping on the train to Manhattan. We usually dodge dozens, sometimes hundreds of kids, along with parents and dogs accompanying them to school. Our fast-moving chariot often forces them off the sidewalk (sorry about that). But this week was different. [...]

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The Perfect Shave

April 7, 2012

I stumbled across this excellent video of barber Geno Bicic performing the perfect shave. His shop is Geno’s Barberia in Greenwich Village, in New York City. Although under 10 minutes, this video is epic. Take note of… The dramatic soundtrack. The sophisticated, commanding narrator. The perfect blend of technique, instruction and sequence. The manly hands. The [...]

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Early Spring in the Burbs

April 2, 2012

I was sitting on my kids’ swing set in the backyard and couldn’t resist capturing this stereotypical suburban scene. We just back from Home Depot, Target and Bed, Bath & Beyond. Our Subaru wagon was half unloaded. The snow blower was running (to empty the fuel tank for storage). Deck furniture, bikes and strollers were [...]

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Driveway Chalk Drawing

March 25, 2012

My five-year-old son Julian did this driveway chalk drawing in about five minutes. I took the picture from our deck for a perpendicular, top-down view. In case you can’t tell, it’s a house with a steeple, sun shining, a pink “box tree”, an underground house and a water pipe traveling through the tree to the [...]

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Every Man Needs His Man Cave

March 16, 2012

The “Man Cave”. Marketers objectify it endlessly. Has the man cave jumped the shark? Adam Tschorn thinks so and explains in the LA Times: The spirit of the man cave has been co-opted by so many marketers hawking grill tools, barware and even neon lights in the shape of the words “man cave” (in case [...]

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Olin Stephens and Dorade

March 5, 2012

“In all phases of my work I was conscious of the need for balance, and I did my best to find balance in both the long and the short view. Broadly I think I can say that I applied the principles of balance in design, in business and in the pleasures I enjoyed.” Those were [...]

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