20 Apr 2012
What Fenway Park has is what it always has offered for exactly 100 years: baseball in an intimate, beautiful, green park as cherished as Yosemite or Yellowstone (though somewhat easier to hit a ball out of).
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Amen
26 Feb 2012
The Artist will win the Oscar for Best Picture
You heard it here first: The Artist will win the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture, according to a regression model I developed with a team of classmates in business school. The model predicts The Artist holds a formidable 97.7% chance of winning.
The Martin Scorsese film Hugo comes in second with a 25.6% chance of winning, and The Descendants comes in a distant third with just under a 5% chance of victory.
The model correctly predicted the previous two Best Picture winners, The Hurt Locker (2010) and The King’s Speech (2011), and correctly predicts 82% of the Best Picture winners since 1970.
The Artist boasts the largest predicted chance of winning Best Picture in the three year history of the model.
13 Feb 2012
Upgraded foursquare Explore is excellent — it found me a new brunch place within 10 minutes of my apartment without a huge wait. On Sunday. At 12:30 p.m.
Are you not amazed?
12 Feb 2012
This is how one advertises for cars, in my opinion: let them speak for themselves.
60 Years of the SL Roadster - Mercedes-Benz (by mbusa)
9 Feb 2012
In the world of plenty, the only currency is attention and attention is what defines “media.
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Om Malik, on GigaOM buying PaidContent. Two brands with serious authority that command attention.
21 Jan 2012
The rules: everyone stacks their phones face-down, and if a person at the table reaches for their device before a meal is over, they have to pay the whole bill.
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Participated in a phone stack last night. No one cracked, though we did almost reach for The Google to settle some arguments. Zeitgeist!
Yes, Cell Phone Stacking Is Now a Thing - Trendwatch - Eater National (via etagwerker)
(via etagwerker)
20 Jan 2012
Popped this for New Year’s Eve — was better than Champagne. Great drinking and a lot of fun.
I’ve been saving Infinium in my fridge as well, and have been saving the beer for the best occasion to open it and share with fellow beer lovers.
I can’t wait to drink this!!! Samuel Adams and Weihenstephan Infinium Ale. It’s been sitting in my garage, if it tastes half as good as it looks I’m into it.
19 Jan 2012
When beer prices get out of hand, head to social media
NYC pricing is a real problem for craft beer. Certain grocery stores are especially ridiculous in marking prices up to and above corner deli levels.
We’ve written lately about beer prices getting out of hand at bars in New York City. With the growing popularity of craft beer in the city, it’s no surprise that some businesspeople might try to take advantage of the boom by driving up prices.
How do we combat this?
8 Jan 2012
If you’re a pure economist and following the laws of supply and demand, the argument is that if someone is willing to pay a price, then it is not excessive,” said Liran Einav, an associate economics professor at Stanford. “But that all depends on the type of long-term relationship you want to build with your customers.
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When standard economics meets behavioral economics. This week: dynamic pricing bites back.
Disruptions: Taxi Supply and Demand, Priced by the Mile - NYTimes.com
