Is Citi Bike Worth It?
At this point, if you live in Brooklyn or Manhattan south of Central Park, you have likely seen one of the many Citi Bike Stations that have popped up over the last month. New York City agreed to take part in a Bike Share program a little over a year and a half ago, and we are now a few short weeks from it becoming a reality. When I first heard about the idea of a Bike Share in NYC, I honestly had no real opinion of it. I have a...
Two Screens Are Better Than One
I’ve started to notice a trend of TV shows incorporating a second screen to supplement the viewer’s experience. First it was texting and reality shows. Show’s like Top Chef taking real-time polls via text messages from the viewers. Then, as social media became more of the norm, reality shows started using Twitter hashtags to gauge viewer’s reactions and comments. Jimmy Fallon started incorporating his Late Night Hashtag game to...
Instant Coffee: Waterworlds?!
Thursday afternoon, NASA announced its Kepler deep space probe had discovered two planets in a galaxy far, far away. With the scope of the cosmos virtually infinite, finding a new planet is probably old hat for them at this point; however, these two were different. Reasonably similar in size to Earth, well within the habitable zone of their nearest star, and – this is the kicker – LIKELY COVERED IN WATER. Am I using the...
E-Mails with Mom and Me
My mom does everything in a hurry. Writing e-mails is no exception. She is the queen of disjointed electronic correspondence. Her favorite is dropping the ‘r’ in ‘your’. Normally, these things drive me bonkers, but when my mom does them, they’re reassuring. The way that grammatical mishaps, misspellings, improper tense, and bad word choice look in e-mails from my mother conjures thoughts of simpler times where mom and dad could...