We Found Our Son in the Subway – NYTimes.com

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/we-found-our-son-in-the-subway/

We Found Our Son in the Subway – NYTimes.com

Townies is a series about life in New York, and occasionally other cities.

The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station.

Danny called me that day, frantic. “I found a baby!” he shouted. “I called 911, but I don’t think they believed me. No one’s coming. I don’t want to leave the baby alone. Get down here and flag down a police car or something.” By nature Danny is a remarkably calm person, so when I felt his heart pounding through the phone line, I knew I had to run.

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http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/quantified-work/all/

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IFTTT: For your Wednesday reading pleasure, here’s a fascinating @WIRED post about the future of work & the quantified self: http://t.co/Gxmup7Qilf

Tesco — the company that runs a chain of grocery stores across Great Britain — uses digital armbands to track the performance of its warehouse staff.

A former Tesco employee told The Independent newspaper that the armbands provide a score of 100 if a task is completed within a given time frame, but a score of 200 if it’s completed twice that fast. “The guys who made the scores were sweating buckets and throwing stuff around the place,” he told the paper.

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Best Thing At The Market

Best Thing At The Market

Best Thing At The Market

Best Thing At The Market

Best Thing At The Market

@4505_Meats cheeseburger.

37.794999-122.392334

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Team Social in NOLA

Team Social in NOLA

Team Social in NOLA

Team Social in NOLA

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Sorry to hear about your blizzard New York

Sorry to hear about your blizzard New York

Sorry to hear about your blizzard New York

Sorry to hear about your blizzard New York

Sorry to hear about your blizzard New York

37.756333-122.418667

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The Doomsday Preppers of New York – NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/nyregion/the-doomsday-preppers-of-new-york.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

The Doomsday Preppers of New York – NYTimes.com

Onto a folding table came a breathtaking array of disaster swag: compasses and iodine pills, hand-cranked radios and solar-powered flashlights, magnesium fire-starters and a fully charged Kindle with digital road maps of the tristate region. Many of the items on display went far beyond the “10 Basic Pillars of Bug-Out Gear” that Jason Charles, the network’s leader, had passed out in advance through the Internet. A good number were tweaked to fit their owners’ needs and interests. A locksmith in the group had a lock-picking set. A vegetarian had a stash of homemade dehydrated lentils. One man had a condom designed to serve as an emergency canteen; another had a rat trap — to catch and eat the rats.

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