September 2008
42 posts
it's a beautiful, sunny, crisp fall day in NYC.
enjoy it!
Sunday morning NYTimes: (my) top 3 choices
good billionaires vs. bad billionaires
the weekly tommy friedman: green the bailout
love story
down on the county line...
I grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Wasp-wich, Connecticut, not exactly the heartland of America. I don’t know anything about corn fields or backwoods hunting or whose bed your boots have been under. And yet, somehow, I’ve developed an appreciation for country music. Say what you will, country music (done well) can be a surprisingly moving art form. Yep, I just called country...
Watchclaudia:
matthewb:
Fifty People, One Question: Restored by Benjamin Reece. Don’t miss this. (via Darren Wood)
Fifty people, one question. Just watch.
51. You won't always be the strongest or fastest....
(via rulesformyunbornson)
81. Remember, the girl you're with is somebody's...
(via rulesformyunbornson)
I don’t have a brother, but I do have two sisters who are perfectly capable of doing so. in the most femme way possible, I can assure you.
thanks, guys.
“For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward...”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson (via ckck) (via rulesformyunbornson)
this is the sweetest thing. →
a guy writes 1001 rules for his unborn son.
my fav so far: ”always stop at a lemonade stand. tip well.” oh, and also: ”know the proper time to wear a tuxedo. it’s more often than you think.” and this one too: “be nice to your sister. you are her confidant, cheerleader, and bodyguard.”
on smitten. how she finds these sweet little things, I...
so I've been thinking...
with this whole Wall Street mess, maybe it’s really time to go back to basics. instead of trying to play games with the market and come up with get-rich-quick schemes, maybe it’s time to focus on making an actual product, on actually creating something.
I really don’t know what it’s like to work in the securities industry, and it’s never good when an industry...
Won't you be my neighbor? →
15 reasons why Mr. Rogers could have/should have been our next President.
“Being loved is great, but loving someone back (and so deeply) is better.”
– A (very wise) reader (via ohmydarlin) (via amandarific)
that’s exactly what this photo makes me think of…
Bruno Taylor, I heart you.
Bruno Taylor’s series Playful Spaces brings swingsets and bouncy benches into ordinary public spaces, like bus stops and street corners. According to Taylor, the project is “a study into different ways of bringing play back into public space. It focuses on ways of incorporating incidental play in the public realm by not so much as having separate play equipment that dictates the users...
