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On Saturday, Michelle, Zach, Adrianne, Adrianne’s friend Tim, and I drove out of the city to go for a hike (originally Schunemunk Mountain but ultimately Catskill Escarpment Loop). It ended up quite the adventure. First, we lost 40 minutes when … Continue reading
New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. Database of hiking trails in the New York-New Jersey area. (via Matt Diaz)
Meet for SPEED. Front-end performance meetup tonight at 7 pm at LogicWorks.
Thunderstorm while it’s snowing. I can safely say I’ve never experienced this before.
Taking Amtrak Empire State 255 with Albert up to Albany to ski tomorrow and Sunday. To our left is the Hudson River with chunks of ice near the shore. Awesome.
Is it possible to carry skis and boots on the subway? Totally.
ONA NYC Meetup. Woo hoo for events hosted at the J-School!
Recipe for an awesome Saturday morning: Call Bank of America customer service on an AT&T phone in New York City.
Heatmap visualization of where I’ve been in three cities I most commonly visit, based on 1030 check-ins on Foursquare and a neat tool called Where Do You Go found via Zach Seward.
Pretty neat. The hotspots in each city are most commonly where I live and work. Unlike Zach, I check-in copiously, even at private residences, as a way of logging where I’ve been. The most unexpected insight from building these heatmaps is the sheer distance between Portland-area check-ins. It makes sense, but also is surprising compared to the other two cities.
Texting a screengrab of Google Maps because you don’t know the exact address.
