I mean, this is pretty great:
An Embarrassed Walrus
Author: Sam Kornstein
South American Road Trip
A very well done South American video compilation. From the artist’s Vimeo site: “Early 2012, we started a journey to Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and Southern Brazil in our old and rusty Landrover. Once again, we brought our DSLR cameras and some gear to capture every great moment of this trip. Lots of winds, emptiness, pampas, bustling cities, animals, deserts and waterfalls – all wrapped up in just under 6 min. Enjoy the ride!”
Southie’s Australian Meat Pies
South Boston is an amazing place. If you weren’t already convinced, maybe you didn’t know that the West Side is home to KO Pies, an Australian meat pie store. What’s an Australian meat pie? I didn’t know myself until the other day. It’s a pie crust stuffed with beef, lamb, Irish stew, or sausage. Sometimes they come filled with cheese, and you eat them smothered in ketchup. I don’t even like ketchup all that much, but in the context of meat pies, it’s great. Any homesick Australians might want to check out the store – they also sell Berocca, Vegemite, and other strange Australian obsessions. Here’s a typical meat meat pie spread, along with instructions from KO on how to eat
Saving Money With Fidelity Products
I often find myself explaining to friends how they can save some money by using a couple Fidelity Investments products. The other day it occurred to me that I might as well turn my typical rant into a post. Full disclosure — I worked at Fidelity for four years, but am no longer compensated by the firm in any way. It’s a great company, and they have many products that are extremely useful. The two products I’m going to explain work well together. The first is the Fidelity Cash Management Account. While Fidelity’s brokerage company isn’t technically a bank, the firm has a bank-like cash management product that’s quite similar to a traditional checking account, with some added features. The account
Ordinary Breakfast
In response to getting tired of her friends posting pictures of their fancy meals on Facebook, my friend Jenny Lee started a blog titled Ordinary Breakfast, where she documents her morning cereals and other generally normal looking meal. In Jenny’s words: “Last night two friends and I discussed the topic of people taking photos of their meals and posting them online. Sure, we see tons of photos of extraordinary meals, but what about the ordinary ones? My breakfast, which usually consists of a bowl of highly unremarkable cereal and soy milk, eaten out of a paper bowl and with a plastic spoon (sorry, environment) at my desk at work, is just… Ordinary. Average. Heck, it’s probably even below average. And it
Where’s Foodies? On Fire, Apparently.
Or at least it was last Tuesday. As I previously mentioned in this post, I’ve been excited for Foodie’s to open a grocery store in Southie — around the corner from my apartment — for some time. As much as I love my neighborhood, we don’t really have any options for groceries, short of going to Stop & Shop on the east side or into the city. And there’s nowhere to get prepared food either. There’s been talk of the store opening going as far back as 2010, but starting this past spring, we began to see real progress, as contractors started renovating the long-vacant Chocolate and Nuts Factory on Broadway. I’d heard lots of rumors that they were very
Logic Boat
Nate Silver Goes Back to His Roots
After two days without an election related post, Nate posts this: The Statistical Case Against Cabrera for M.V.P. On Thursday, the American League will announce the recipient of its Most Valuable Player award. The winner is likely to be Miguel Cabrera, the Detroit Tigers star who won the league’s triple crown by leading in batting average (. 330), home runs (44) and runs batted in (139). It might seem as if these statistics make Cabrera, the first triple crown winner in either league since 1967, a shoo-in for the M.V.P. But most statistically minded fans would prefer that it go to another player, Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels. The argument on Trout’s behalf isn’t all that complicated: he
From Out of Nowhere
Via Barrons via The Big Picture, interesting trends in the computing space: I find it a little bit funny that the graphic says, “from out of nowhere, smartphones have passed global PC sales.” The slope of both smartphone graphs shifted sharply upward the month the first iPhone was released and haven’t changed since. I’d say the passing was rather predictable at any point after the iPhone came out until it happened. Even if PC sales had maintained their trend growth, that only would have delayed the inevitable by a few months.
Cloud Follow-Up
In response to my post yesterday on cloud backup solutions, Colin suggests another interesting solution: Rather than pay $60 a year for cloud backup, I invested in the personal cloud. Connect this to your router and set your Mac or pc to backup automatically. Completely automated and way more storage. I like the idea of this approach, and it definitely has its cost benefits over the long-run, especially on a per GB basis, but I would still worry about the improbable scenario of a fire or theft. If my computer and local hard drive were both stolen or damaged, everything would be gone for good. But it does look like a great product nonetheless. Thanks Colin.