clockwise from bottom left: coffee, pickles, salt & vinegar chips, ketchup, avocado, New Yorker
31.3.12
28.3.12
Ethics and Meat
Very curious to see the outcome of this contest!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/magazine/tell-us-why-its-ethical-to-eat-meat-a-contest.html?hpw
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From a commenter on the site: "The title of this article should bear the hashtag #firstworldproblems."
I'm not so sure. Should ethics ever be considered a "first world problem"?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/magazine/tell-us-why-its-ethical-to-eat-meat-a-contest.html?hpw
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From a commenter on the site: "The title of this article should bear the hashtag #firstworldproblems."
I'm not so sure. Should ethics ever be considered a "first world problem"?
27.3.12
WTFNYC
Customer: ...
Chase Bank Customer Service Representative: And can I ask how you'll be traveling with that, sir?
Customer: ...
Rep: I'm only asking because of safety, sir, to make sure that you're traveling safely with that amount of money.
Customer: ...
Rep: Sure, that's fine, though I can't guarantee they'll all be in clean bills.
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I've lived through many common city annoyances -- cockroaches, bed bugs, crazy neighbors, black mold, 8am construction, no water -- but this is the first time I've had to sleep through the night in my sleeping bag due to lack of heat. (I at least got to test out my new silk sleeping bag liner!) Apparently someone called the city about it!
Chase Bank Customer Service Representative: And can I ask how you'll be traveling with that, sir?
Customer: ...
Rep: I'm only asking because of safety, sir, to make sure that you're traveling safely with that amount of money.
Customer: ...
Rep: Sure, that's fine, though I can't guarantee they'll all be in clean bills.
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I've lived through many common city annoyances -- cockroaches, bed bugs, crazy neighbors, black mold, 8am construction, no water -- but this is the first time I've had to sleep through the night in my sleeping bag due to lack of heat. (I at least got to test out my new silk sleeping bag liner!) Apparently someone called the city about it!
21.3.12
Laksa, Corporate scheduling, & cetera.
There are two phenomenal vegetarian restaurants in midtown, both owned by the same person who, judging by location and cuisine, is probably Korean: Hangawi and Franchia. My mom and I are starting the healthy habit of meeting up bimonthly for a bonding chat, and we met at Franchia for lunch about a week ago. The menu there is actually vegan, and but for the lack of eggs you would barely notice it. I had a Malaysian-inspired "fish" soup called laksa, which is a strong, spicy "fish" broth (here, spices and possibly a mushroom base) served with one or two basic vegetables like potatoes and sprouts. (Think: super tangy, hot Manhattan clam chowder.) It was one of the most delicious things I've ever had; it is also, unfortunately, one of the most difficult dishes to find in vegetarian format. So... if anyone wants to grab a fake fish lunch in midtown...
Hangawi is the kind of fancy place where you take your shoes off and order a prix fixe lunch, so I'll discuss that one when I have more money.
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My life has recently been running on a corporate schedule, and I don't like it. The end of OUP's financial year is coming up at the end of this month, and every day has been nonstop. I've started getting afraid I might develop a UTI because I just sit at my desk holding in my pee until I reach a good point to stop working, which is kind of like a runner's "goal-oriented" mentality, except not healthy. I still like the job, but I come home and my head is still buzzing -- and I resent that. I don't have a work phone and I don't check my work email at home, so I don't like that work is now invading my thoughtspace without my permission. I need to try harder to turn this off.
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I sat in on a First Language Acquisition class yesterday and learned some cool stuff about tense!
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My life has recently been running on a corporate schedule, and I don't like it. The end of OUP's financial year is coming up at the end of this month, and every day has been nonstop. I've started getting afraid I might develop a UTI because I just sit at my desk holding in my pee until I reach a good point to stop working, which is kind of like a runner's "goal-oriented" mentality, except not healthy. I still like the job, but I come home and my head is still buzzing -- and I resent that. I don't have a work phone and I don't check my work email at home, so I don't like that work is now invading my thoughtspace without my permission. I need to try harder to turn this off.
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I sat in on a First Language Acquisition class yesterday and learned some cool stuff about tense!
- Children develop a sense of tense more quickly in cultures whose languages are very clear with the use of tense-markers, like Spanish. English is not one of these languages.
- Children will develop it even more quickly if their parents use content-heavy sentences that involve lots of different parts of speech and tense, like: "Let's clean up the toys," "Did we ever find that toy?" Children whose parents use phrases like "Clean up the toys" and "Where's that toy?" develop it more slowly.
- There are certain errors involving tense that are made by both native English-speaking 2 year-olds and adult learners of English, suggesting that there is a complex relationship in learning that doesn't have to do with maturation.
But I'm probably taking Intro to Syntax next semester, so expect some sentence diagrams instead of real-life fun facts...
1.3.12
Glamping
I mentioned to some coworkers that I was going camping on an old airfield in Brooklyn, and they told me I wasn't going camping -- I was going "glamping." Glamour camping.
I couldn't get that upset because, yes, it's not exactly the wilderness; we heard car alarms going off, and planes from JFK were roaring overhead all night. But convenience was more than an arm's length away -- we had to take the 2 to the end of the line, then take a bus, then walk for about a half hour to our campsite, which was situated in a scrubby patch of trees not too far from the oily shores of Jamaica Bay. We were within sight of an abandoned airplane hangar, which was creepy, but otherwise we were semi-surrounded by trees and brush, which was cool. We would have had the whole campground to ourselves was it not for the family of four that barged in on our peace... though I'm sure they weren't expecting a gang of rowdy twenty-somethings, either. Their loss.
I couldn't get that upset because, yes, it's not exactly the wilderness; we heard car alarms going off, and planes from JFK were roaring overhead all night. But convenience was more than an arm's length away -- we had to take the 2 to the end of the line, then take a bus, then walk for about a half hour to our campsite, which was situated in a scrubby patch of trees not too far from the oily shores of Jamaica Bay. We were within sight of an abandoned airplane hangar, which was creepy, but otherwise we were semi-surrounded by trees and brush, which was cool. We would have had the whole campground to ourselves was it not for the family of four that barged in on our peace... though I'm sure they weren't expecting a gang of rowdy twenty-somethings, either. Their loss.
The campsite -- and our new tent!
Steve, walking across what was once tarmac
Abandoned hangar
The "beach"
Old airstrip
Don et al
We are absolutely looking to go back, and if anyone is interested at all, let me know. It's annoying to get there, but just getting outdoors for a couple days presses reset and fixes all sorts of city ailments. Don and I have mad camping equipment -- stove, warm clothes, awesome towels -- which we like to use as often as we can to keep our skills fresh. Need to practice for California...
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