{"id":1105,"date":"2010-09-30T21:25:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T20:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2010-09-29T21:26:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T20:26:44","slug":"nyc-day-21-bryant-park-muse-games-and-neon-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/1105","title":{"rendered":"NYC day 21 – Bryant Park, Muse Games and Neon Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday I cycled over to Bryant Park for the daily lunch break juggling meeting. Thousands of people work within a few blocks, and during the summer they can have up to 30 jugglers show up per day.
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\nIn the afternoon (after eating a burger)I cycled down to Chinatown. There I met up with a friend who works for a video game company called Muse Games. This company used to make sosauce.com, a travel website I still use now and then, but the games they made as a side project were so successful they now employ dozens of people to do that full time.
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\nEvery time a computer or program crashes, and they lose any work, someone draws them a “Crash Bunny” and sticks it to their monitor.
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\nThat evening I went to see my second full show at the New York Clown Theatre Festival. Neon Lights, also known as Chris and Jeff, presented a “post modern vaudeville show” which I found highly entertaining.
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\nI only saw two shows at the Clown Theatre Festival, and I would consider neither of them clowning. Sure, both had some physical comedy and clowning elements, but both were character and sketch comedy from beginning to end. Thankfully I have no problem with that.
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The obligatory route map. My gps tracker packed up half way through, so my route down Manhattan is missing. On the way home I used my iPod and some software I downloaded months ago, and it draws a much smoother line on the map.
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