December 18, 2003
Additional Fixations
I find it fascinating that I can say "New York is my favorite city!" and half the responses will say "No! New York is a terrible city because I like rural areas better than cities!" Now I will say, "Justin Timberlake is my favorite contemporary pop musician!" And people will say "Pop music sucks!" and I can be reminded why weblogs are evil.
But I digress. My intention, now that I've explained some of the reasoning behind my recurrent posts on New York City, is to list some of the other topics which tend to attract my attention, particularly on my list of daily links. I think it might be useful since many of these topics are ones that I don't address in lengthier posts. Feel free to point out if I've missed any of my own obsessions.
- Blogs, blogging, and all that kind of junk
- New York, Manhattan, and all that kind of junk
- the production and promotion of popular music
- the coming world war over potable water
- the fight against the theocratization of the United States
- Prince, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, their peers, and the neo-soul artists they've influenced
- the history of the personal computer software industry
- social software applications and their attendant bubble
- cool projects my friends are working on
- examples of socially-responsible entrepreneurship
- new urbanism success stories
- innovations and trends in mass transit
- usable large databases of public data
- efforts to advance the political power of the hip hop nation
- thong underwear as a wearable meme
- advances in air travel customer experience
- the underreported successes of Microsoft research
- maps and cartography
- freshdirect and the potential for web groceries in general
That's the list so far. What am I overlooking?
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Hi kids, I like Sinatra. Don't you? One day, Christian Godefroy, a friend of mine, send me a compilation of sinatra best songs. I was so enjoyed, so happy! he send me also a NYC metro coin and a magnetic card. These stuff came from New York ! My fa... Read More
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Saying "funk", "funky" and "junk".
Memorably, there was depression and bipolarism, but that's not so often on your daily-links list. *shrug*
Every once in a while, I remember to cruise by current obsessions and recurrent obsessions.
Shoot back something to me in IM or e-mail about the 'maps and cartography' bit would ya? My interest in that topic especially is paramount.`
Are there advances in the air-travel customer experience?
Potable water is definitely a causa belli. I wonder if it will be a spark of unrest within the US alone.
Pop music sucks!
Your dog.
Now everyone picture Anil in a thong dancing around his apartment to Stevie Wonder.
If you're going to live in NYC you have to trade in Steve and Mikey for James and George
How about Race and Gender?
Potable water crisis? Ack! Haven't heard anything about that...
Bill Seitz must die.
Bill has revealed why I can never buy an iPod: No way to mount it on my thong.
Maybe the upcoming iThong accessory will do the trick.
De Beers and the rest of the evil diamond cabal.
Anil, it's OK to like, love, and be in love with NY. I suffer from all 3.
ny is incredible and i'm jealous of anyone who has the privilege of living there.
east or west nyc is the best
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east or west nyc is the best
kaushal parikh
http://www.kaushalparikh.com
happy holidays, anil!