Last Week in October

Controversy in California: whether the Chinese American kids learn to write simplified Chinese characters or traditional characters – which has some political implications (complicated, when you consider the whole China v. Taiwan thing).

What Lawyers Can Learn from Sisyphus” – interesting article on how to persist in the face of difficulty. Then again, it’s not often that I see a reference to Sisyphus.

What a sad possible outcome about Amelia Earheart. Of course, crash landing on a coral reef would be a likelier outcome than, say, what Star Trek: Voyager once proposed had happened to her (kidnapped by aliens, of course).

Slate’s Ad Report Card column by Seth Stevenson analyzes tat Levi’s commercial, which has someone narrating a Walt Whitman poem amidst arty cinematography and – of course – people wearing Levi jeans.

Well, as seen in the video below, there was the weird thing at Grand Central, last year-ish, as a complement to the dancing at a Belgian train station.

A marriage proposal by Patent Application http://bit.ly/145lMv « The Jason Calacanis Weblog

Source: calacanis.com
    OK, it's novel, but there's a flaw in the process – I don't think he intended to patent a process for the masses to propose to his fiance by name….    

Pre-Halloween Weekend

Pu-er tea as an investment. Really?

There’s something poignant about reading this NY Times article on Neil Simon, as he’s in his 80’s and as his “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and “Broadway Bound” are being revived.

The age of the internet isn’t making it easy when we post pictures of ourselves and our kids, and this article about the topic makes me wonder about posting any pictures on-line, when or if they get appropriated without our permission (or reminds me that we should read the fine print better).

This looks like a yummy recipe for Apple Cider Doughnuts; just ignore the calories. I’m not a cook or a fryer even, but this is tempting.

A little behind on this, but it’s the 10th anniversary of Alton Brown’s “Good Eats” on Food Network; interesting item about it on NPR radio.

Well, the video below was a thing for a Belgian reality tv show, in a train station in Belgium. This was quite entertaining! I’m imagining if this could happen at Grand Central.

How hysterical. Plus, the Belgians have as much weird taste in tv as anyone else. Ahhh.