“The host of the long-running game show Wheel of Fortune says that back in the day, he and Vanna White occasionally had a drink – or six – while working on the show.

— Pat Sajak Drunk on Wheel of Fortune: Host Admits to Drinking on Game Show : People.com

“I work for Grooveshark,” the anonymous commenter wrote on October 17, 2011. “We are assigned a predetermined amount of weekly uploads to the system and get a small extra bonus if we manage to go above that (not easy).

— Ohhhhh. Did a Grooveshark Employee Admit to Pirating Entire Albums? - SocialTimes.com

“

Partalo thinks her age is spot-on for Cadillac’s goals. Her peers, raised on mass-manufactured goods, now associate quality with their grandparents’ era. But there’s more: She’s a Bosnian refugee who fled civil war and spent 18 months in a Hungarian camp playing chess with her mother, a Muslim, and her father, a Christian. Then they immigrated to Minneapolis.

“There are two Americas,” she explains, as I drop the six-speed Tremec shifter into fourth and punch the gas. Zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds. “There’s the America of dirty Levi’s, the land of old myths. And then there is the land that the immigrants see: Apple, Pixar, Times Square—a country of creativity, a place where anything is possible so long as you can dream it.”

Cadillac has always been selling that ideal. An immigrant knows it resonates.”There are two Americas,” she explains, as I drop the six-speed Tremec shifter into fourth and punch the gas. Zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds. “There’s the America of dirty Levi’s, the land of old myths. And then there is the land that the immigrants see: Apple, Pixar, Times Square—a country of creativity, a place where anything is possible so long as you can dream it.”
Cadillac has always been selling that ideal. An immigrant knows it resonates.

— Cadillac Turns To A 28-Year-Old To Reinvent The ‘Standard Of The World’ | Fast Company

“I don’t know this person, but I like the commentary:

Danielle Maveal and her pup, Myrtle, wearing a collar sewn with rosettes, board the ferry from India Street, a potholed commercial row in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to head down the river to Ms. Maveal’s job at Etsy, in Dumbo.

It is Myrtle’s first day on the water, too.

“She’s adapting to all these different modes of transportation,” Ms. Maveal says. “I’m taking her to Germany in September, so she’ll ride a plane.”

—

Oh hey, NYT live blog of the new East River Ferry, good job finding the most outrageous Brooklyn stereotype imaginable! A girl who works at fucking Etsy and has named her puppy — who she brings to work with her, at fucking Etsy — after a fucking street in Brooklyn. Oh yeah, and she’s going to Berlin this summer to hang with her friends from Bard who have this, like, AMAZING place in Kreuzberg. I’m sure she’s a nice lady, but JESUS.

I, for one, have met an important deadline and plan on spending my day in Manhattan skateboarding because I’ve been in front of this stupid thing for the past few days. I’m gonna take the goddam East River Ferry just so that on the outside chance that I see that reporter, I can feed her outrageous lies about my lifestyle. I will have a skateboard with me, so this is somewhat limiting, but here are my ideas:

-I am actually heading home to my East Village skater pad after a crazy two-day bender that started at The Jane Hotel and ended at a secret party under the Autumn Bowl in Greenpoint. I’m way hungover, plus I need to go to The Cabin Down Below — “Are they open at noon?” he asks me, from behind his sunglasses — to pick up my iPhone, which I left there when Chloe Sevigny hustled me into a cab. 

-I am actually the child of Williamsburg Hasidim, and a practicing Hasid myself. I just look like this because I don’t see the need for all the quasi-occult-seeming centuries-old trappings that go along with it — “Why should Hasidim alienate themselves any further from mainstream society?,” he tells me after refusing to shake my hand. I own and (sort of) operate 33 multifamily buildings in Bed-Stuy and Bushwick. Also, I occasionally DJ at Trash Bar.

-I am actually an actor hired by a viral marketing firm hired by Vita Coco to try to talk up the hydration benefits of coconut water to skateboarders at Tompkins Square Park. I do not know how to skateboard.

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∞ Dan K's Blog: Heatmap of Restaurants in New York City

Love a good visual map.

dfkoz:

Two things I like are data and food. The two rarely mix, unless you do something stupid like create a heatmap of restaurant density in New York City. Which is exactly what I did. Without further ado, here it is:

Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan

Upper Manhattan

Downtown…

“One of the things you learn is that ‘polymath’ doesn’t even begin to describe Silverstein. His creativity extended in so many directions that his archivists must be versed not just in turn-of-the-century world children’s literature, but Waylon Jennings’s deep cuts; not just in reel-to-reel tape preservation, but how to keep an old restaurant napkin scribbled with lyrics from falling apart. And you also learn that Silverstein seemed to have a terrific time drawing, rhyming, and singing his way through life.

—

Shel Silverstein is one of my all-time favorite creators. 

A journey to the Shel Silverstein archive, from whence the fantastic recent posthumous anthology Every Thing On It was excavated.   (via)

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“A significant part of marketing to strangers is the work of appearing to be the dominant choice, the safe choice, the one that’s going to get picked by everyone else soon. Get in sync, the thinking goes, if you’re the kind of person that wants to be in sync.

— Seth’s Blog: “How much are you going to tip?”

Jumpstart Your Wellness (in Under 20 Minutes a Day!)

• BEDTIME YOGA
• Time: 10 minutes
• When to do it: Before bedtime If you have trouble sleeping, it might be because of pent-up tension. With the lights out, sit cross-legged on the floor and take ten deep breaths into the bottom of your belly. Then, gently roll your head in a circle to knead out any knots in your shoulders. Stretch your arm over to one side and take five deep breaths into your ribcage, and repeat on the other side. Finally, lie down in Happy Baby pose to open your hips and lower back for one to two minutes. Slowly sit up and make your way to bed for easy, deep sleep.

• Dearest creature in creation,
• Study English pronunciation.
• I will teach you in my verse
• Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
• I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
• Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
• Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
• So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
• Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
• Dies and diet, lord and word,
• Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
• (Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
• Now I surely will not plague you
• With such words as plaque and ague.
• But be careful how you speak:
• Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
• Cloven, oven, how and low,
• Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
• Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
• Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
• Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
• Exiles, similes, and reviles;
• Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
• Solar, mica, war and far;
• One, anemone, Balmoral,
• Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
• Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
• Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
• Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
• Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
• Blood and flood are not like food,
• Nor is mould like should and would.
• Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
• Toward, to forward, to reward.
• And your pronunciation’s OK
• When you correctly say croquet,
• Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
• Friend and fiend, alive and live.
• Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
• And enamour rhyme with hammer.
• River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
• Doll and roll and some and home.
• Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
• Neither does devour with clangour.
• Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
• Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
• Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
• And then singer, ginger, linger,
• Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
• Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
• Query does not rhyme with very,
• Nor does fury sound like bury.
• Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
• Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
• Though the differences seem little,
• We say actual but victual.
• Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
• Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
• Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
• Dull, bull, and George ate late.
• Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
• Science, conscience, scientific.
• Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
• Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
• We say hallowed, but allowed,
• People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
• Mark the differences, moreover,
• Between mover, cover, clover;
• Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
• Chalice, but police and lice;
• Camel, constable, unstable,
• Principle, disciple, label.
• Petal, panel, and canal,
• Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
• Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
• Senator, spectator, mayor.
• Tour, but our and succour, four.
• Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
• Sea, idea, Korea, area,
• Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
• Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
• Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
• Compare alien with Italian,
• Dandelion and battalion.
• Sally with ally, yea, ye,
• Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
• Say aver, but ever, fever,
• Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
• Heron, granary, canary.
• Crevice and device and aerie.
• Face, but preface, not efface.
• Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
• Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
• Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
• Ear, but earn and wear and tear
• Do not rhyme with here but ere.
• Seven is right, but so is even,
• Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
• Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
• Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
• Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
• Is a paling stout and spikey?
• Won’t it make you lose your wits,
• Writing groats and saying grits?
• It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
• Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
• Islington and Isle of Wight,
• Housewife, verdict and indict.
• Finally, which rhymes with enough,
• Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
• Hiccough has the sound of cup.
• My advice is to give up!!!

“Dear David— It has been far too long since our last encounter, and today I found out why. Imagine my horror to find your public proclamation of love for that floozy, the Canon S95, for the whole world to see. You called that little camera “something special?” Well, I remember when I was your one special camera, the one you could come to for anything. Photographing a soccer game? Done. Days at the beach? Easy squeezy. Amazing landscape shots on vacation? You betcha. Is it because I’m so much bigger than the S95? After our years together, I would think you would accept me for what I am: a highly capable, semi-pro SLR that empowered you to take great pictures. Depth of field, fast burst rate, sharp focus, accurate colors—these are all things only a camera like me can give you. Let’s not forget all the fun times we had with my friend NIKKOR, who was always willing to go to great telephoto focal lengths to please you. And sometimes our friend Speedlight joined the party to brighten the mood. You talk about physics? I’ll talk about chemistry. You, me, and your 18-200mm VR lens are a perfect match. But I don’t want to be spiteful. I only want what’s best for you, and I think you are a great match for my cousin, the P7000. She is smaller and more powerful than most cameras, and leads the way for a segment of cameras that is quickly gaining in popularity, the high-end compact. She’s got a cute retro style that everyone loves, and full manual analog controls. From Your First photographic Love, Your Loyal Nikon D80

— BEST OF 2011: Perfect PR pitches: NYT tech columnist picks his favorites | Articles

“Combine naps and caffeine for ultimate midday refreshers
Got 15 minutes and a cup of coffee or tea handy? You’ll be glad you do, and that you’re keeping yourself from developing that daily tolerance. Because then you’ll have access to the “caffeine nap” discovered by U.K. researchers. Drink some coffee fairly quickly (assuming you aren’t already buzzing on the stuff), then take a 15-minute nap. That gives your body just enough sleep to feel slightly refreshed, and the caffeine enough time to start taking effect the minute you wake up.

—

New work habit in 2012. 

How To Break Your Daily Caffeine Habit And Use Coffee Strategically | Fast Company