….kind of. I’m an avid reader of economics blogs and the Freakonomics blog, hosted by the NYTimes, is one of my daily reads. Stephen Dubner, one of the two main co-authors, is a fan of aptonyms (when someone’s last name is well-suited to their profession). As part of my daily tech reading, I came across an aptonym in an article on Google, sent it in to Dubner and made it to the Freakonomics’ “This Week in Aptonyms” post.
Sitar Teli of London sent this aptonym:
The relevant paragraph is the 5th one down: “Cost per employee? San Jose-based caterer Abe Caterman (really!) guesses it would cost Google about $15 per day, per employee, for breakfast and lunch. But Prentiss Hall, a helpful exec at Aramark Business Dining Services, thinks Google could be spending closer to $30 a day, based on the quality and level of service the company provides.”
The full post here :)
1 year ago
My friend and colleague Carlos “The Awesome” Eduardo has a new post up on Chromewalker about the NYTimes Reader for Macs. I haven’t tried it out yet, but he’s an Apple fanboy and generally hard to impress when it comes to design / UI, so if you have a Mac (and like the Times), check it out.
Chromewalker
1 year ago
After lunch, I went with a couple of colleagues to the White Cube gallery, which is about 2 minutes away from our office to see the Gregory Crewdson exhibit.
I had read about Crewdson once before (I can’t find the article now, otherwise I’d link to it) and found his photography really interesting and very different from anything I’ve seen before, but I didn’t know until yesterday that he was exhibiting just down the street! The exhibit is fantastic and I’m definitely going to see it again before it leaves White Cube. You can read more about the exhibit here. One of my favourites is a boy staring up a bridge with a crowd of people behind him (almost hidden by mist), but I can’t find an image of that one online. Instead, here’s one of the other ones I liked:
Brief Encounter by Gregory Crewdson
1 year ago
“When readers think of the magical process of writing, publishers would prefer the image to be Tolstoy scratching out Anna Karenina in a wintry Russian landscape and not someone staying up all night on Ritalin to cut and paste together a biography of Heath Ledger immediately after his death.”
from a review of the 2008 London Book Fair: http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article04180801.aspx
The whole thing is well-written and worth reading (but not sexy…not at all)
1 year ago
