When non-New-Yorkers are watching a TV show set in NYC that happens to have lots of police car sirens going on in the background, I wonder if they realize that New Yorkers watching the same show don't know half the time whether that sound is from the TV or from out their window.

"In cities, people are the scenery." -- from The Artist's Way

Time spent making friends has a higher happiness ROI than time spent making money. -- Eric Barker

Meet the assassin of the future. Gun-toting drones will also fight in wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHrTtvFFIs

When the rest of the world sends America its best and brightest, America says, "Go away"
 http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8823349/immigration-system-broken

The sky in Lima is grey very often.  Locals call this "donkey's belly."

London wins the prize for smallest hotel rooms. With a chunjin-360 I can kick someone standing at one end of my room while starting at the other.

Taking 10 seconds to get clarity on a particular request could potentially save you 10 hours of confusion and unnecessary work – S.Gelb

From 2005-2012 over 20 studies that looked at whether consuming fish oil has cardiovascular benefits concluded there was no benefit over taking a placebo.

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
-- Andre Gide

Kim Jong Un's new haircut looks like Guile's from Street Fighter II http://www.vox.com/2015/2/19/8069897/kim-jong-un-has-an-amazing-new-haircut-we-have-many-many-questions

"Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life."  -- Will Smith

Be the best version of yourself

Moving to NYC is like dating the most popular kid in high school only to discover all the blemishes that aren't visible from a distance

http://www.amazon.com/Never-Can-Say-Goodbye-Unshakable/dp/147678440X

Not all rewards are fun.  Not all fun is rewarding. 

Gotta love NYC! “Non-luxury” apartments sell for under $2,300/square foot. Average new home in the rest of America sells for $93/square foot.

Driving a car for an hour has the same carbon footprint as talking on your phone for a year.

The average American uses 46 sheets of toilet paper a day, according to Kimberly-Clark.  I think that quantity is too much.

America: where you can get fake boobs, fake muscles (implants), fake tans, and now fake engine noise! http://t.co/er601SUSod

"In a visual world if you aren’t noticed you just don’t exist." -- Mark Simpson, writer who coined spornosexual and metrosexual