Food and a Room

Via smbc of course…

Best Day of the Year

OK, exaggeration. But we look forward to the Atlantic Antic every year. It is unofficially the oldest and largest street festival in New York City and it’s right in front of our place (we live on Atlantic in the Ex-Lax building).

 

For me street fairs are largely about food, and the Atlantic Antic is better than other street fairs because this is a foody neighborhood. You can get the normal street fair stuff (nothing wrong with that) but also crazy awesome local stuff. There’s a Spanish church on Atlantic that shows up with crazy good food. I try to keep a running list of what I eat every year.

This year I ate:

• roast corn
• empanada
• pernil
• bacalaíto
• jerk chicken
• pizza
• chorizo
• dumplings (kung pao chicken and thai chicken

There’s a local gumbo place that was serving gator and andouille sausage jambalaya, but I was too full to try it:

Of course, there was music and shopping and kids stuff and all that other stuff. I’m just too full to write about it…

Then & Now

If you use Google Photos you have seen this, particularly if you have kids. Since Google can recognize faces, they have some sort of algorithm that tries to find a picture of your child X years ago doing something similar to a recent picture of them. So every once in a while you get a notification with a cute “Then & Now” combination picture.

This is a pretty good example. If a human saw these two pictures separately, I’m not sure it would be clear that it’s the same kid. They are about seven years apart, with glasses and a bicycle helmet in the older picture. And the algorithm interpreted “climbing in a playground” and “sitting in fake dinosaur eggs at the zoo” as similar things. Which is a pretty fuzzy relationship for AI.

Makes a nice picture…

Ninja Squirrel

Comedy Wildlife photo finalists via The Guardian. Click the link and check them all out…

 

China, India and Everyone Else

Via Our World in Data, A Map of the World Where the Sizes of Countries Are Determined by Population.

At first I thought Canada was just blocked by the map title, but no, it’s that tiny orange stripe. Russia is also quite small compared to its land size.

28, Count ’em, 28 Trombones

How can a 28 trombone version of Bohemian Rhapsody be anything but amazing?

The thunderbolt and lightning section is around the 3 minute mark for those in a hurry…

Release the Dragon

I guess I’m in a funky video phase. This is the SpaceX Dragon capsule being released from the International Space Station. It’s sped up and 4K so watch full screen. Nice lightning flashes towards the end…

Claire de Lune

Just  watch…

We Are All More Grumpy

In a typically insightful article by Om Malik about Skype, he wrote a line that resonated so much with me:

We are all more grumpy. And remember — we all got grumpy about phone companies, and we got Skype — a simple, easy to use and highly useful (if not pretty) product that was worth billions, and beloved by millions.