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Great Bicycle Shop

Monday, November 1st, 2010

This was sent to me by my dad.

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Ridiculous Bikes

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

My neighbor Steve Klocke basically just ruined my weekend by sending me a link to CycleExif. It’s not Bike Porn (probably NSFW) but it’s essentially Bike Porn.

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JAPAN! MUSIC! SHOES!

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Gentrify

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Great collection of videos from an interview with Sharon Zukin, sociologist at Brooklyn College. I particularly like her points about the necessity of diversity to form neighborhoods and cities.

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Amusing google doc presentation on heuri…

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Amusing google doc presentation on heuristics and your brain. http://lesswrong.com/lw/fc/you_are_a_brain/

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CJ Doing the Jackal – http://bit.ly/13sr5t Man I miss the West Wing.

Friday, August 28th, 2009

CJ Doing the Jackal – http://bit.ly/13sr5t Man I miss the West Wing.

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Fear

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Fear of Apathy. “I can’t start this until I’m positive the work will never become dull or difficult.”5 Fear of Ambiguity. “I can’t start this until I know exactly how it will turn out (as well as the precise method by which I’ll do it).” Fear of Disconnection. “I can’t start this until I’m totally [...]

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Asterisk

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Barry Bonds ball donated to Cooperstown, with asterisk. But, the interesting part, to quote from the article: “Pete Nash, a baseball historian who was also one of the members of 3rd Bass, a defunct rap group, said writing on baseballs dates from the 1850s.” Wikipedia link mine, which reveals a great tidbit of 3rd Bass [...]

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More reading, less writing.

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

I’ve been exploring this new city of Columbus and found myself at the Columbus Museum of Art, a great little museum with lots of interesting, local exhibits. They had a great showing of old New York photography, including this great shot of the company my dad works for: SH Laufer: I also picked up a [...]

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