Cold morning, warm clothing, whey powder power drink and some oatmeal for fuel…felt great getting to work through Central Park and city streets. Even midtown seemed okay, though those potholes seem to be getting worse. It’s nice to be able to look over your shoulder and see your bike waiting for the ride home.
I’ve been wanting one of these for awhile now — since I first saw someone riding one and craved the simplicity of it. I rode a similar bike (the Mu XL Sport) as my commuter for a few years but sold it off recently to try something else for a change. But this has no [...]
Courtyard of MACBA in the early evening.
Barcelona, mmmmm.
Love these rail to trail conversions. Brilliant, and the barons must be turning in their wealthy graves.
Sofra is the bakery owned by the Oleana folks, and it is a knockout food experience. Over the Watertown line from Cambridge and worth the trip. Gorgeous varieties of baked goods coming sweet and savory in a Turkish way. Like Berkeley with an eastern sensibility. A few tables, lots of spices and treats for sale, [...]
Lovely museum, so welcoming and enjoyable. Especially the cafeteria garden. What really impressed me was the character of the museum, evident in both the thoughtful layout and organization of the collections, the voice that came through in the printed descriptions of each piece, and way it all came together to make me feel excited and [...]
My friend and riding buddy John introduced me to climbing the hills of Harriman State Park last year. It’s a humbling way of finding out just how strong you aren’t (yet) while enjoying gorgeous views and mostly quiet roads just outside NYC. Here’s a shot from the ride coming back down Perkins Drive, over the [...]
Hard to say what is best here, the food or the people, but it feels like love and it is some of the best falafel in the city. But get the Sabich sandwich because it’s even better.
I have these Yamaha monitor headphones (RH-5Ma) that I use when working with GarageBand but haven’t actually used for listening to music much. I just plugged them into my laptop and played a great Los Lobos tune (“Burn It Down” from Tin Can Trust) — in okay quality VBR MP3 — and I was stunned [...]
Rode up across the GWB with a friend, to the Tappan Zee and back down on a gray Spring day. Android MyTracks happily recorded our path here: View Piermont With Mark in a larger map
It’s good to get back in touch with what got me into this business in the first place. This time the recipe includes these ingredients: Groovy Grails jQuery Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk, RDS and S3 JetBrains IDEA 10 Groovy just continues to satisfy me as a language more than any other these days. And more than [...]