The big news this week: Jonas and I walked the perimeter of Manhattan. As I write this, I’m hurting a little bit—to be expected base on first-hand accounts from others with experience. While we had sort of trial run about a year and a half ago when we walked the length of Broadway in Manhattan, I’m not sure if anything can fully prepare one for their first 35.5 mile walk.
Overall, it was a great experience, one worthy of a post of its own. Stay tuned for that, once I’ve had some time to collect my thoughts. In the meantime, here’s a screenshot of our route.
Links
- A Toy Never Played With
“If there is something you want to do at a future point when you have more time to do it, if you aren’t already doing it you won’t do it then.” So true. - Meet the mussels doing the dirty work of cleaning up Newtown Creek
- Two historic ships owned by hospitality company Crew sink in Red Hook
- ‘Every second counts’: Congestion pricing speeds up ambulances in Manhattan, study finds
- MTA to add elevators to five more Brooklyn subway stations with funding from congestion pricing
- Code for the People via HAPPILY IMPERFECT
- AOL’s Instant Messenger was the unsung hero of the early-aughts
I lived through these times. Adium was my Mac colleagues, multi-platform chat client. IM has changed so much, now I wish MS Teams would just go away. - Americans of All Ages Are Spending Less Time Socializing
This is most certainly making us worse off.
@blog the socializing thing is interesting.
I did not socialize with coworkers before the pandemic, I don’t live in a big house, and I’ve been cooking more than getting takeout, but even if their explanations don’t quite fit I have had 0 desire to socialize even with friends for at least a year and a half. I like people a lot less than I used to.
Congrats on the loop, my gf has been wanting to do it for a while, it’s quite a distance!
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Thanks! It wasn’t my first attempt, I tried The Great Saunter several years ago, but bailed pretty early on.