Caught an evening with Joe Jackson and the band at the Beacon Theatre on Saturday night. He began the show at the piano, solo for the first song. Then he was joined by his long time bassist, Graham Maby for the second. These guys have been playing together for 50 years. I wonder if they think about how special that is while they’re on stage, just the two of them. Maybe after thousands of performances, they don’t. But, I like to think they do.

The rest of the band joined them, one by one from the wings for the third number and proceeded to rock the Beacon. It was a wonderful show with plenty of newer material mixed in with the classics from his extensive catalog. He even played Home Town, one of my favorites, and a pleasant surprise.

I did some quality procrastineering this week and created a little menu bar pomodoro timer. It already helped me break a procrastination spell this weekend, so it’s not a total loss. If you also suffer from procrastination from time to time, the pomodoro technique can help jump start things. You don’t even need my fancy application, you can just use the timer on your phone.

Links

There are a lot of links this week—so many that I’ve decided to categorize them..

• General
  • You Can’t Make Old Friends
  • MapTap: A Geography Guessing Game via Flowingdata
  • Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Narrated by Patterson Hood (short video)
  • Gen Z and Millennials are Buying CDs – Though Half Don’t Have CD Players
  • The ‘Death of the Stick Shift’ is Almost Here for Americans
• NYC
  • New York’s hottest club is a floating barge on the Hudson
    I’ve sailed around the Willy Wall many time. Unfortunately, never been on it.
  • New York’s Rampant Illegal Parking Stumps Viral Good Samaritan Street Cleaners
    I had no idea “New York City’s viral new hobby” is “picking up trash.“
  • Big Business Is Leasing Record Office Space in Mamdani’s New York
  • New York City moves to adopt ban of deceptive subscription practices via Slashdot
  • Amtrak study finds way to run more trains at Penn Station without razing a Midtown block
    Through running trains, yes!
• Tech(ish)
  • Deleting Systems You Don’t Understand via Beto Dealmeida
    I too been guilty of this in the past.
  • Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos In AI Images
  • ‘Knockoff’ Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands On Amazon
    I installed it! There’s also an interesting post about why brands such as EHEYCIGA exist on Amazon.
  • Truth Social To Sell Wall Street Firms the ‘Fastest’ Access To Trump’s Post
    Blatantly selling access to material non-public information? Trump really knows how to be a criminal at scale.
  • Why Reading Matters