Very Smart Elevators

Had the privilege of visiting the NY Times HQ in NYC the other day and while it was inspiring to be there, my favorite part was the "smart elevator system."

My video attempt didn't do it much justice, but you push a button for your desired floor and it tells you which of the elevators you should take...and they are managed so that you spend the least amount of time in them.

Apologies to Loren for putting him on the spot, but he's a good sport about it. The new blog for the NY Times is http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/

The World According to Garp (movie)

Image via Wikipedia I have no idea why, but The World According to Garp is one of those films (and I guess books) that I'd heard about and felt that it was a representation of 1950's New York artistic culture as an icon of sorts.

John Irving is the author of the book on which the movie was based and thanks to the power of Netflix, I figured, transactional costs for giving it a try were pretty low.

I am glad I did.  A very interesting commentary on life in the '50s forward, particularly for women.

But, more than that, the dramatic and ironic twists in the development of the plot kept me involved.  It did take a bit longer than I would have liked to materialize, but I suppose it all made sense in the end. 

There were a few plot pieces that I expected to be foreshadowing of some calamitous event, but in hindsight, served a different purpose ('undertow' and 'red pickup truck.")

Nevertheless, seeing a much younger Robin Williams and Glenn Close (plus John Lithgow as an early stage transsexual) was fun in and of itself.

Definitely a movie worth watching if you consider yourself a pseudo-intellectual, as I do! ;-)

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