Rose has moves
Rose’s teachers at day care shared this little gem — video of her dancing during “circle time” yesterday. Relieved she seems to have gotten her dad’s sense of rhythm.
Author: jcluchey
Get Busy Living
Great post in the New York Times Opinionator. “The ‘Busy’ Trap” looks at what we’re really doing when we overbook and overlook the most important interactions in our lives. A key graf: Almost everyone I know is busy. They feel anxious and guilty when they aren’t either working or doing something to promote their work. […]
535 Parties of One?
The notion that a third political party could emerge in American politics — occupying some kind of radical center that combines the “best” positions of both parties while dispensing with their posturing and gamesmanship — is the chimera of modern political conjecture. Looking for this party’s arrival on the horizon is like squinting into the […]
Summer in Maine
50 degrees and rainy can’t stop a determined lobster bake crew. Rose didn’t let the cold slow her down either.
The Scourge of “Datalitism”
Data: It’s for Yuppies and Hipsters. That’s the message I’m hearing lately from more than a few companies that deal in data. It seems like more often than not, the messaging around data is, frankly, elitist — based on an assumption that data is something for people of means. Because I’m a sucker for a good […]
How to Ruin Your Child
What is the point of becoming a parent if you can’t pass your terrible, heart-wrenching sports traditions on to your unsuspecting progeny? Last Sunday, my father and I took Rose to the new Red Sox spring training park in Naples, Florida, for opening day. The weather was perfect, and the team came to play, beating […]
What Rush Meant
In the firestorm surrounding Rush Limbaugh’s recent deplorable comments regarding Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, less if any attention has been paid to what he actually meant by them. This is understandable — his words were cruel, unfair, incendiary, and hearkened back to an era of misogeny to which most Americans long ago bid ‘good […]
How Google Should Be Communicating about Privacy
When it comes to perceptions about its respect for user privacy, it’s been a rough month for Google. The roll-out of its new privacy policy consolidation was widely characterized as a “controversial” threat to users’ personal information — one even worthy of congressional hearings. Then a Stanford researcher discovered that Google was circumventing privacy settings […]
Fatherhood Geekery
Back in November I saw a post on Google+ speculating about whether a quilt stitched to include a QR code would make a nice wedding gift. Weddings aside, immediately I knew this was a must-have item for my daughter Rose, who at that point was still a few weeks away from being born. I hadn’t […]
Metro Music
…or, since it’s NYC, Subway Symphony? Either way, a very cool representation of a public transit system through color, motion, and music. Conductor: www.mta.me from Alexander Chen on Vimeo. Conductor (2011) by Alexander Chen. Video capture. View live at: mta.me Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s […]