Trivia

Bank of Kaukauna wins again. God bless ye.

Fog

This is a view of the Met Life building, which strangely sits smack in the middle of Park Avenue, perhaps indicating its real or percieved importance in the financial world. The road literally goes around the building, which has to be an urban planning nightmare.

Often times in NYC, fog will roll in and obscure the tops of skyscrapers. It makes them seem infinitely tall and makes you realize how tiny you are in comparison.

Computer Music Radio

My buddy is running a podcast with some pretty amazing one-ish hour sets of older soul and random/eclectic tunes along with some one-off great songs. I highly recommend it and I'll keep a sidebar of the tunes on the right for your convenience, you lazy bastard.

Reunion recap

So I went to the nerd reunion and it was pretty great. Everybody seems to be doing well and has good lives - careers, marriages, kids, etc. The one thing I wouldn't have predicted is the crash that it took for many people to get there. For this group, much more so than other people I know from school, it seems like many people seemed to have some sort of breakdown or very drastic reevaluation of their lives before they settled in on their current lives.

I think it makes sense in a way - when you raise kids under the guise of being the "smart" ones, an undue amount of pressure to succeed is going to come along with that, and when people realize they're not going to make Supreme Court Justice, or really even *want* to, it can be a little rough. I know I definitely had several periods of reevaluation and I'm better for all of them.

All around, I feel happy to have seen so many of my old friends and they're all doing so well.

Watching Hipster Love

You know when girls are best friends in NYC because they dress the same way when they go out and are super excited because they realize its ridiculous but don't care, which of course makes them superhot. When guys dress the same, it just instantly transports you to the moment when the item was purchased:

"Dude, I love this hat with the feather in it. It's fucking sweet"
"Yeah, I've been thinking about getting a hat for a while, but I'm not sure if I'm a 'hat guy'"
"I'll get one if you get one"
(silence)
"Okay"