even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

those branches look very artisanal

photog probably had them switch out the dirty ones for some prime branch shots

Mmmmm I think possibly the writer made that couple sound bad for kicks. Playing with sticks in the woods and stuff is pretty great. The Georgetown crack is the author's, and the quote about oppression and poverty is pretty otm.

I do get that there is a basic concern that if despite having money you are not a worthless douchenozzle, and you would desire your children aspire to something other than that, it is probably not good to tell them that they can buy small islands on a whim.

The former owner of my company, an honest-to-god billionaire and philanthropist (who sold the company to another billionaire and philanthropist, Warren Buffett), told both his daughters, "You'd better get good educations and good careers, because I'm giving all my money away. I earned my way, you earn yours."

if i were a billionaire i would be fine with giving my kids money but only if they used it to become cool artists and musicians

Too low of a ROI.

Yeah, you might accidentally get The Strokes.

attention any rich parents i am available to live in brooklyn & make art for a nominal fee

Haha check out that guy carrying branches, what a pretentious asshole

“It’s a big thing in Waldorf schools for children to remain in a bubble,” Ms. Holder explained as we were entering the park with a group of children. “The bubble! When I got to college” — Georgetown, because you surely want to know — “I spent a lot of time crying because I was learning about poverty and oppression really for the first time — things that, frankly, you should know about before the age of 17.”

that's quite a bubble

Beginning in September, the school will house 40 children, ages 2 to 5, who will move from classroom to classroom for 35 hours a week to study math, science, reading, piano, dance, art, jazz, percussion, ballet, drama, singing and Spanish.

Isn't this pretty much a pre-school Montessori?

tbh, I was kind of edified to read that part, bc H and I have occasionally fantasized about how "If only we could afford it, wouldn't it be nice to send K to a Waldorf school?"

xp pre-school montessori exists and is its own thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Waldorf_education

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/opinion/sunday/douthat-the-secrets-of-princeton.html

second half of that is mostly otm?

yuhp

I know it's dothat don't be scared

first time in forever that doutat wrote something I couldn't even quibble with.

quibblety anxieties of the reading class

i'm having such strange emotions in response to this article. "like watching a dog play the piano."

quiddities and agonies and leisure time delights of the creative class

http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/travel/professional-conferences-double-as-vacation-venues.html

what is wrong with people

ughhhhhhhhhh x 1000

then again ppl who meet at TED deserve each other

keep them away from general population

Love the idea that this is in any way new. Anybody who's ever worked in the hospitality industry, especially at a shitty hotel bar, will tell you that they see more affairs cook up when a convention's in town, whether it's ''creatives'' there for TED bullshit or contractors there for this year's exciting rollout of next-gen cement admixtures for paving and interior floor applications.

confirms my long-running suspicion (that now everyone seems to just acknowledge) that these aren't actually like conferences or anything, but just places to hang out and party and feel awesome. spring break for marketing consultants.

i mean true yes this probably holds for all marketing conventions/conferences as opposed to more researchy things but nonetheless...

xxp OTM.
IIRC Dallas used to use strip club density and proximity as an enticement for convention business.

Are Medical Conferences Useful? And for Whom?

That's a great little article. John Ioannidis is the guy who wrote "Why most published research findings are false": http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 I'd love to go to a conference about that: The Why Your Work Is A Giant Waste Of Time And Money Conference.

Maybe the closest thing, I'm going to the first-ever Preventing Overdiagnosis conference in September: http://www.preventingoverdiagnosis.net .

xp lolz at NYT realizing that people fucking at hotels is a TREND

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130409/upper-east-side/force-street-vendors-use-matching-furniture-upper-east-sider-says

instead of making a proposal at a city council meeting they should have just yelpd about it

Birnbaum suggested that "when a vendor gets a license, he is issued the furniture that he's allowed to have on the street — his 8-foot table, his chair, an attractive cover — so we don't have a visual blight." She also recommended that vendors use street "signage in a certain font."

Comic Sans I hope.

visual blight

hm

that's a timeless quid/ag. I feel like there were probably 8th Century BCE co-op owners complaining about foot-washing and ugly bazaar signage.

Funny that the NYT article about conferences uses SXSW as its main example. Who in their right mind doesn't see SXSW as anything but a giant spring break party? The interactive part is only slightly more respectable than the music part.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/04/meet-the-swugs-of-yale-women-washed-up-at-21.html

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/fashion/daily/2013/04/09/09-swug.o.jpg/a_2x-vertical.jpg
getting an onion vibe on this one

That is some pitch-perfect Q/A right there. Makes you want to kill everyone in the article and burn NYMag to the ground. Good stuff.

As she puts it, “Saying ‘I don’t give a fuck’ at the right moment, it makes you a more complex person.”

Solitary posts etc

Swurtzels

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/opinion/sunday/the-trauma-of-the-pink-shirt.html

hahah i like critchley but i have nfc what that was about

hat’s when I walked into a situation, right there in the parking lot. Three cars, one of them Shirley’s, were simultaneously trying to pull out of their parking spots

His wife and her friend were trying to make a getaway while he was in the stop and shop.

my carrier bag gently rustling in the wind, full of diet sodas and trail mix

Awesome pool party.

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6fp0lgXME1rxlru1o1_500.jpg

Simon Critchley is a philosophy professor at the New School.

How much did the shirt cost? Seems like he could have mentioned it a few more times.