From the Rockefeller Center

While in NYC, I spent a couple of hours at the top of the Rockefeller Center, gazing at the city's incredibe skyline.

Here are a couple of speculative-nonetheless-beautiful shots taken at different stages of sunset - where you can see the Chrysler building and the Metlife building to the left, and the Empire State Building to the right.

Mongols

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050425fa_fact4

I read this today and found it extremely amusing, though rather long.

It is an account of the Mongol empire, their war tactics, and their destruction of Baghdad in 1258.

To imagine that battle, like they say, think of Athens in the time of Aristotle being destroyed by a nuclear weapon.

A Love Supreme

An unbelievable journey.

That is what this album is.

Raises all kinds of emotions and reactions.

Great for work, great for leaisure, great for drinking, great for thinking. It's the all-weather jazz album.

Definitely my best US purchase.

After the routing

"Any other team 4-1 down at half time would have seen a half empty ground for the second half, and at 5-1 down the manager would have probably been sitting on the bench on his own! Not us though, we stayed to the end and we sang our song. It's what makes us unique and sets us apart from the rest. When the players take a beating like they did tonight we show them that they are not alone and they'll never walk alone. There's no other club like it. "

Chesil, liverpoolfc.tv message boards

Not so New Year

This brilliant piece comes from the excellent blog of Greg Mankiw (author of my macroeconomics textbook and former Economics advisor to Bush).

Which by the way is already in my Internet Explorer favorites for quite a while.

Empanadas

So the bar I frequented the most in 2006 is already the bar I frequented the most in 2007.

2 days in Sao Paulo this year, 2 days going to Empanadas.

This after some 10-15 visits the previous year.

amazing place. Tasty, burining-hot, full-size empanadas for R$ 3.70 (£1), -5C cold beer, big screens, amazing alternative vibe in the heart of Vila Madalena. Priceless. (though really inexpensive).