(on which it, somehow, forgot to rain) I flagged this item from Gothamist when it was fresh on April 29. Today is a good day for a lovely (they say “phenomenal”) aerial photo of New York City, taken from…
Tag: Diversion
diversion: do we need to see patterns where none exist?
Big Data = opportunities Data are information, not knowledge. The New York Times Well blog post this week (Are ‘Hot Hands’ in Sports a Real Thing) is based on a study of five entire seasons of free throws in…
Tagged with: Basketball, Big Data, Bowling, Diversion, Free Throws, New York Times, Patterns, Statistics, Uncertainty
diversion / needlessly painful baseball
stop me if you’ve heard this beforeIf you are a mild baseball fan you are aware that catchers take a lot of punishment; a more serious fan is aware that Yankee catcher Francisco Cervelli suffered a broken hand last week…
diversion about real estate (any discussion of Gentrification is tangentially about Manhattan loft neighborhoods)
though the focus recently is on Brooklyn A perennial never-get-to on my Don’t Do list is a thought piece on how neighborhoods change, including my personal history as a residential pioneer in the then newly-minted Tribeca (truly TriBeCa in…
Tagged with: Brooklyn, Change, Diversion, Gentrification, History, New York Observer, Tribeca, Utne, Williamsburg
diversion from the archives / still a beautiful city
still, time lapsed My April 14, 2012 diversion, beautiful Saturday diversion / beautiful city, time lapsed, is worth another look. Still diverting, still lapsing, still New York, still with a (slight) Manhattan loft neighborhood angle. If you’ve seen it…
diversion / baseball games! old baseball games
it’s beginning to feel a lot like … Opening DaySnow flurries aside, it is getting to be baseball season, finally. If you’ve been following the game for a while, there will be something in this compilation on SBNation that will…
Sunday diversion: the Hallelujah chorus
no, not that oneThe music ministry in my parish does wonderful music. Including, adding in the past year, an adaptation of Leonard Cohen’s always haunting Hallelujah. I drove my wife a little bonkers a while back after using The Google…
Tagged with: Andrew Sullivan, Church, Crystal, Diversion, Hallelujah, Lent, Leonard Cohen, Music, Performance, Street Art
Sunday diversion / London in 48,000 images, 320 gigapixels
big city, HUGE photoFrom one metropolis to another … I can’t remember where I saw this link, but it is a cool story and a visual treat for you folks who know London well. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2282054/320-gigapixel-interactive-picture-London-lets-20-MILES-zoom-people-street.html (Countdown … 10 … 9…
diversion / when Manhattan skyscrapers and sky were further apart, circa 1900
Manhattan skyline and skyscrapers from 100 years agoThis will take some clicking around, but there is a reward. If, that is, you’d like to see what "skyscrapers" looked like in Manhattan back when such things were being born. This discussion…
Sunday diversion is a B&B special that does not involve an overnight stay
one is timely and eternal, one just eternalI have commented before that Grantland has a wonderful collection of writers with a focus on sports but a wonderfully broad range of interests. In re-filling my Instapaper reader the other night I…
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