Katie Melua - the end?

11:50 mareku 0 Comments

While flying back to Amsterdam (in a record time of a little over 5 hours) I tried to listen to Katie's latest album: The House.  If I weren't sleepy already I sure fell into a coma listening to these tracks. It's perfect for people with insomnia... I think she is a nice girl with a pretty voice but why a whole album with this boring stuff?

An Old Friend at the AMNH

10:26 mareku 0 Comments

 
I tried the new AMNH iphone app - but could get it working properly. A shame because it looked very promising - maybe it's because my iphone4 is screwed up badly... I ran into an old friend though - whom I know way back from Easter Island.

Malcom Gladwell

10:17 mareku 0 Comments

While i New York I met Malcom Gladwellwriter of classics as blink, tipping point, outliers and many excellent pieces in the New Yorker. He told shared with me an interesting thought that entrepreneurs never really like taking risks as such - they try to avoid that. But that where they differentiate that they are willing to take social risk. Working of concepts and ideas that few people in their own circle believe in. That's why most innovation comes from out of existing closed markets and that's why we need immigrants in a society to have a more entrepreneurial culture (They have little to lose so far as social standing concerns) Also read his latest New Yorker article on why the revolution will not be tweeted...

Mary Meeker: The future is Mobile

10:31 mareku 0 Comments

 
Mary Meeker is convinced that mobile will be the future. That is to say: smartphone AND tablets. I agree: in some markets you already see a leap jump from nothing to smartphones surpassing the PC completely. What this means for Microsoft, websites in general and Google is to be seen. Maybe the latter has some advantage with its android OS.

A sunny day in the big Apple

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central parc

an other Trumph Tower

a view from a room

central park

Columbus circle

Blister Gunner - 1944

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In 1944, Allied forces executed an aerial bombardment of the heavily fortified Japanese Island of New Britain in the South Pacific. Many planes were shot down. Waiting for messages that a pilot had ditched his aircraft, amphibious PBY planes were ready to skim over the water, locate the pilot, land on the surface, and send out a rubber raft to bring the pilot back to safety. On one such occasion, a blister gunner on one of the PBY planes spotted a severely burned pilot, hanging onto life only by a tattered life preserver. The gunner, knowing that there was not enough time to send out the rubber raft, stripped off his clothing and dove into the water to rescue the pilot himself. After he had returned to the PBY plane with no time to dress, he immediately returned to his post. Horace  Bristol considered this man's actions among the bravest deeds that he witnessed during the war.

Photo by Horace Bristol (American, 1909-1997)
Sold for $17,500 at Sothebys New York

I would be down too if I had these tats I think...

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