So you’ve seen that I’ve developed a new curiosity for urban farming. I love the idea of growing local. Here in NYC, I found downtown and near-midtown farms. It appears that cities around the world are becoming hot beds for urban farming. And new ideas pop up daily. Mashable presented 11 small-big and big-big ideas [...]

We all know that texting while driving is an absolute no-no. I propose that texting while walking should be banned as well. If you live in a place where you have huge expanses of walkspace or European piazzas, then have at it. But this is Manhattan people. There’s hardly enough room for the population as [...]

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” Albert Einstein How about that – Einstein and I have something in common. Some of the most interesting finds I made in 2011 were random – and local – discovered while walking around the city. As the world struggles through economic challenges, political uprisings and [...]

Time to throw my top 10 lists into the bottomless pit of lists (apologies). As in 2010, I’ve focused on films, plays and books. These works surprised, informed and entertained me. Most importantly, they have peaked my curiosity enough to engage with them and just maybe discover something new. Off we go, in no particular [...]

One of these years I’m going to go see the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (MTDP) balloons get inflated. To those outside NYC, this event is nearly more anticipated by locals than the parade itself (note that those of us who like this are also the people who have been, or would likely go to the [...]

Today, 11 november 2011 at 11:11:11am, time and date will sync to a perfect uninumber palindrome – an amazing event that happens only one day every 100 years. How cool is that? Who cares, what does it really mean? Not much, but then again, if you’re creative, you can make a story where there actually [...]

While not as publically-proclaimed as the 21 may 2011 Rapture, Harold Camping has declared this friday, 21 october, the real deal. “We can be sure that the whole world… will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011.” What the believers did Camping’s previous declarations didn’t come to fruition, and sent [...]

I’ve been walking this city for along time. When I arrived, New York was a raw city. I knew where to walk, and where to avoid. But the one thing I could always rely on, if things got a bit dicey, were gas stations. They were always nearby as a safe haven. Well, it’s a [...]

Way back when I first began writing the curious g, I wrote a post about a great book, a travel essay, called Shadows Across the Sahara by John Hare. I happened upon an interview that Mr Hare did with NPR, and some video of his journey. How timely as I’m about to reread the book [...]

One of my favorite mountains that I’ve never climbed, K2, is in the news this week. Known as the “Savage Mountain” because of its treacherous ascent to the summit, K2 notched another first this week. Austrian mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner reached K2’s summit along with three others from the National Geographic team. She is the third [...]