It was the perfect New York hustle, a scam of subtle perfection. And for three years, it helped Mark Epperson pay his rent. The hustle, in its simplest form: Borrow a Citi Bike. Ride it one block. Wait 15 minutes, then ride it back.
Month: September 2024
How Does a Baseball Team Lose 120 Games? Every Way You Can Think Of.
In the fourth inning of a ridiculous baseball game — ridiculous even by the standards of the 2024 Chicago White Sox — I wandered out into the stands to meet Beefloaf. Beefloaf sits in Section 108.
When to Start Blogging?
Are you thinking about starting a blog but feel like you haven’t found “your voice” yet? That’s understandable; many people feel the same way. Luckily, there’s a solution to the problem:
We’re losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it?
Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.
Electrocuted Birds Are Bursting Into Flames and Starting Wildfires
Electrocuted, flaming bird carcasses are falling off of power lines and causing wildfires across the U.S. This surprisingly common phenomenon has been responsible for at least three Colorado wildfires so far this summer. These events are not isolated.
Focus on decisions, not outcomes!
Learning is a good thing, but don’t learn the wrong lessons by misdiagnosing your mistakes. Sometimes, life throws you a random curveball you couldn’t have anticipated no matter your level of decision genius. When that happens, adjusting your decision process is bad thinking.
Dwight Garner Shares From His Stash of Other Writers’ Words
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all those words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of a trumpet out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John, and Paul. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON For nearly four decades, I’ve kept what’s known as a commonplace book.
Commonplace Books Are Like a Diary Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself
I’ve never been a journal person, though not for lack of trying. A monogrammed duffel bag in my parents’ basement holds many old diaries — a furry leopard-print one from elementary school, Moleskines with unbroken spines from college — each with an optimistic entry or two.
The Titanic is disintegrating: Here’s how it will end
The wreck of the Titanic is showing clear signs that it is gradually disintegrating on the sea floor miles below the surface. What will its final fate be? The RMS Titanic has spent more than 112 years in the crushing, total darkness of the deep ocean.