I bought this Macbook of mine exactly 5 years ago on April 20, 2007. With a little maintenance love from Mike’s Tech Shop in NYC, it’s still running like a charm!
Cooking: Budget Kitchen Upgrades for Every Kitchen that Will Change the Way You Cook (and Eat!)(via @Lifehacker)
Cooking is much more fun when you have all the right gear to make your food dreams into food reality. If you have a contentious relationship with your kitchen, the problem may have to do with things like dull knives or the wrong tools, requiring you to undertake boring, repetitive tasks to make the…
"Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
(Source: sorakeem)
“Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.”
(Source: nyc-architecture.com)
The New York Times: A Proposal for Penn Station & Madison Square Garden
“One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat,” is the familiar lament from Vincent J. Scully Jr., the Yale architectural historian, about the difference between the former and present Penn Stations.