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Random String of Unrelated Things
My buddy, the badass printer/artist Noah Breuer has one of his works on the home page of the Frank Bette Center for the Arts. He’s now getting his MFA at Columbia. If you’re in NYC, go check out his stuff. (Previous post on Noah’s work.) Jim Higdon, my Columbia j-school classmate, got a bookdeal with Putnam for his book “The Cornbread Mafia”, the story of how one rural county in Kentucky became a national center of drug-dealing and how it…
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Five Days, No Blog
My apologies to the dedicated readers out there. My webstats tell me that I have 25-30 readers in RSS and about 30 on the website every day. And occasionally some spooks. Anyhow. Things have been very busy lately both at Macworld and for some freelance assignments, so this post will be somewhat abbreviated. Firstly, go donate some cash to the International Committee of the Red Cross to help relief efforts in Pakistan/India. 20,000 dead. That’s bad news, man. I just…
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Istanbul, Not Constantinople
The Wanderlust Geek is going to Istanbul ! That’s right, folks, you heard it here first. For a week, give or take, toward the end of October, Rebekah and I will head to Istanbul, where we’ll meet up with my buddy from Columbia, Tom Grove. With any luck, I can swing a stopover in Paris to see my family there. 🙂
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Trans-Gambian Highway, Revisited
Lane pointed me to this article on the BBC site talking about the famed (well, famed to me, anyway) Trans-Gambian Highway, which I had the “pleasure” of crossing a few times during my séjour in Senegal. Apparently there’s been quite a bruhaha going down across the River Gambia. (Senegalese newspaper Le Soleil’s latest article [FR].) BBC: The Trans-Gambian Highway, which runs further inland, has effectively been closed to cross-border traffic for over a month by Senegalese transporters protesting against the…
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4.815 North ; 162.342 East
This mustard I first discovered while chowing down with Rachel and Eric over at Magnolia. For the past few weeks now I’ve been putting it on my sandwiches at work. Man, that stuff is great. Even better? They’re offering a promo where you get two 4.5 oz jars for $3 shipped, as a sample! That’s a steal! In other news, I had to send in my iBook to Apple’s repair facility in Tennessee for white spots on my screen. Fortunately…
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iPod Still for Sale
C’mon, no one is interested in my iPod — I’ve just dropped the price to $140. I’m also throwing in a Belkin TunePower Rechargeable Battery Pack, an $80 value. C’mon, you know you want it.
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“The Earth looks better from a star that’s right above from where you are.”
I listened to Beethoven Symphonies No. 6 – 9 courtesy of the BBC this afternoon. No. 6 and of course 9 are the most interesting. Why is No. 8 so short? Now I’m back on the Exercise (ie, anything fun and poppy that I don’t need to pay attention to) playlist. Neutral Milk Hotel rocks.
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My iPod is still for sale
iPod 10 GB 3G; $150
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Weekend Food in SF Roundup
Yesterday, before going to a show at Café du Nord, Becky, Leila and I had pizza from Zante’s, which is basically Indian food but on a naan-style dough, in pizza form. Amazing. As Becky said: “I like pizza and I like Indian food. But together . . . oh, man!” While at Ton Kiang down on Geary in San Francisco today with Garett, Rachel, Eric and Ari, while we were having dim sum we saw Robin Williams for a second…
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Redesign! New Domain! Woohoo!
Now that I can afford proper hosting, and am sort sick of the fact that I can’t have comments turned on in my blog unless I want to be subjected to comment spam in Moveable Type, I’m migrating to WordPress. Subsequently, I have a new, cleaner layout. All the old posts since Jan. 2004 are in the archives here. If I did this correctly, the Feedburner feed should stay live, (I just edited what it points to), and the cfarivar.org…