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Category Archives: The Good Life
Linkathon
Paleo Retiree writes: Fair to say that docs about food topics are one of the most vital cultureforms around these days? Is Apple going to hell? I wrote about some of my own misgivings about Apple’s direction here. “Birth tourism” … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Demographics, Linkathons, Movies, Music, Science, Sex, The Good Life
Tagged Apple, Audio Connoisseur, demographics, Thucydides
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Why “Follow Your Passion” is Bad Career Advice
Blowhard, Esq. writes: In his 2005 Stanford commencement address, Steve Jobs said, “You’ve got to find what you love…. [T]he only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal reflections, The Good Life
Tagged Apple, bad advice, career, graduation speeches, Steve Jobs, work
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City Sights: Bikes in Long Beach
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Back here, Paleo Retiree contrasted the asshole bicycle culture of the United States versus the more civilized one in Berlin. This got me thinking about the city I work in, which as I mentioned in the comments, … Continue reading
Tennis Highlights
Paleo Retiree writes: One of my favorite video forms of the YouTube era is the cutdown tennis match. Real-life tennis matches are just too damn long, you know? I played high school tennis; I’ve hung out with some excellent players; … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Sports, Television, The Good Life
Tagged Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, tennis, YouTube
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Thomas Keller’s Bouchon
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Is Vegas a better food town than New York or L.A.? Very well could be. Celebrity chefs have joints at virtually every hotel. Hell, the Palazzo and Venetian alone have two restaurants from Emeril, three places from Mario Batali, … Continue reading
Posted in Food and health, Photography, The Good Life, Travel
Tagged Bouchon, celebrity chefs, Emeril Lagasse, Las Vegas, Mario Batali, The Palazzo, The Venetian, Thomas Keller, Wolfgang Puck
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City Living and the Line at the Apple Store
Paleo Retiree writes: Back in NYC for less than 24 hours after a couple of months away and already my brain is jangled, and my mind and eye are overstimulated … On my walk this morning I stopped by the … Continue reading
Architecture We Love 3: Corrugated Metal
Paleo Retiree writes: Among the many shortcomings of semi-official discussions of architecture: An overemphasis on architects, and particularly on star architects (aka “starchitects”). What the starchitects create represents less than 1% of the built environment. The rest of building-and-urbanism is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Photography, The Good Life
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Life After Retirement, An Ongoing Series …
Paleo Retiree writes: A great retirement discovery for me: You no longer have to live in any one place. The government may insist that you have an address, but once you’re free of the damn job you’re also free to … Continue reading
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