One Mint Julep

November 8

“ And tips, which hovered around 10 percent when cab rides were cash only, averaged 22 percent on credit-card transactions this fall.

wow. i’ve been paying cab fares with credit lately. i try to avoid cabs if i can, because i prefer the subway, but i totally get the advantage of plastic

In New York, Taxi Revenue and Tips From Credit Cards Rise -

(via fred-wilson)

Many cabs offer 15, 20 and 25% options in the form of a button. I’ve seen some that only offer 20, 25 and 30% options. You can also enter a tip amount by hand. This reminds me of something you shared recently about users being given a choice between now for a fee or getting something for free a bit later. I think most people want to get out of the cab fast and will hit a button with preset choices rather than enter something in by hand. Offer generous options in the form of a button and you’ll like get generous options chosen.

(via j2d2)

I’m also convinced that now that the credit card option has been in play for a while, cabbies have caught on to their increased tips and are using it to their advantage. They are cabbies. Most of them have a giant wad of cash in the front seat. Yet I have had more and more claims of “I don’t have change. You have credit card?” lately.

(Though, admittedly, that could also be due to the increased use of the plastic. But I blame those sly cabbies.)

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notdickless:

Ryan Adams - To Be Young

November 4

tumbledore:

Dave Parker and Grant Jackson.

November 3

thedailywhat:

Stencil of the Day: Spotted in Milwaukee.

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November 2

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Mickey & Sylvia - No Good Lover

How badass are these two?

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October 31

“ There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last—the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.

i love that little book by E.B and especially this part of it. I came here in 1983 and made it my home and it is very much part of who I am.

Here is New York, E. B. White, 1949 (via cdixon

(via fred-wilson) (via j2d2)

One of my favorites as well - I have a vinyl version of Jack Lemmon reading it aloud!

October 30

j2d2:

Hey Jude flow chart.

October 27

thisrecording:

merce cunningham