December 2011

13 posts

“Firefighters say they've had to break through a wall to rescue a person trapped in an elevator in the skyscraper that houses The New York Times.” —

Stuck elevator forces rescuers to break wall in NY - WSJ.com

insert pay wall joke here.
“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people get excited about doing K-means and random graph walks only to discover that actually what they want is a group-by, count, and standard deviation.” —Dmitriy Ryaboy, (12/1) Why the current obsession with “big” data? - Quora (via jakehofman)
“Fortunately for all entrants, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il will not be playing. If the official government media is to be believed, Kim is easily the greatest golfer, the world has ever seeen. Pyongyang media say Kim enjoys golf, having shot multiple holes-in-one during his first try at the game. He reportedly aced five holes and finished 38 under par on the golf course. The "Dear Leader" routinely shoots three or four holes-in-one per round, the government-controlled media reported.” —WorldTribune.com: Move over Tiger: N. Korea’s Kim shot 38 under par his 1st time out
“He also professed to have no regrets for a lifetime of heavy smoking and drinking. “Writing is what’s important to me, and anything that helps me do that — or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation — is worth it to me,” he told Charlie Rose in a television interview in 2010, adding that it was “impossible for me to imagine having my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle.” —Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 — Obituary - NYTimes.com
“Of the hundreds of spot canvases, Mr. Hirst painted only five himself. “When I worked out how to do it, I sold one painting for, like, 50 quid and then used the money to employ other people to paint them,” he said, explaining that he tells his staff he wants the colors to be random. One time an assistant painted five yellow spots in a row. “I told him those aren’t random,” Mr. Hirst recalled. “And we had a big fight. Now I realize he was right, and I was wrong.” —Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings Will Fill All 11 Gagosians - NYTimes.com
“Schiavone's brother, Walter, was so enamoured of Tony Montana, the fictional Cuban drug dealer in the 1983 film Scarface, that he recreated a replica of his villa, complete with the curved double staircase from which Montana takes his death dive. Far from meeting a glorious end, however, Schiavone was arrested in 1999 while trying to jump over his garden wall and his villa has now been turned into a physiotherapy centre for disabled people.” —Mafia godfathers jailed for life in landmark murder trial - Telegraph
  • Andrew G: it's surprising the number of porn blogs "run" by teenage girls
  • derek g.: they are our future
  • Andrew G.: i'd promote that post or something like that
Even on the 11th Floor, There’s Parking Right Out Front nytimes.com

Glauco Lolli-Ghetti has one of the world’s most expensive parking spaces. His 11th-floor, $7 million condominium in Manhattan includes an attached garage.

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