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For some reason my Airport card decided it doesn’t want to work anymore. I tried pulling it in and out again and it doesn’t seem to fly. Sucks. I guess I’ll have to go to the Apple store in SoHo tomorrow. Hey, Dan Rather, CBS et al., can you say “Whoops!” ? Expert Cited by CBS Says He Didn’t Authenticate Papers [Washington Post, Sept. 14 2004] Oh, and uh, you Bush Administration folks. Can you guys say a bigger “Whoops!”…

I love Seymour Hersh, but this doesn’t look good. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 – Senior military and national security officials in the Bush administration were repeatedly warned by subordinates in 2002 and 2003 that prisoners in military custody were being abused, according to a new book by a prominent journalist. Seymour M. Hersh, a writer for The New Yorker who earlier this year was among the first to disclose details of the abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, makes…

Well, I had a pretty interesting day that didn’t seem to slow down. I woke up and pretty much went straight to my Columbia Wind Ensemble audition. Went alright. Not sure if I made it, but I’ll find out tomorrow. But I heard wind chamber music coming from one or two apartments away, so if the CWE doesn’t work out, maybe I can jam with them. Rachel and I tried to go to get croissants and hot chocolate at Fauchon…

So begins (or rather ends) another week in New York. I saw this painted on the side of a building walking east on Baltic St. in Brooklyn not 15 minutes ago. I’m out here killing time/exploring the nabe as I came from Cobble Hill, where my potential French tutee lives. I was just interviewed by her Mom at their nice brownstone. Don’t know if I’ll get it, but things seemed promising. In a little more than an hour, I have…

Remind me not to write about an 84 year-old pool player from Barbados again. This is seriously the hardest story I’ve ever had to write.

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Last night I had a great dinner at the Breuer residence, where I wished Noah a great time in his upcoming year in Kyoto Seika University to study Japanese printmaking. Good luck! While I was there, serving as the Mac-fix-it-guy-in-residence pretty much wherever I go, I was able to resolve two problems Noah and his Dad were wondering about. The first was getting a clock program so that Noah and Dad could know what time it was in Berkeley and…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again for the record: Congrats to Maria and Alex! We all love you and wish you all the best! Bon voyage! The wedding was great: food, friends and fun. I won’t go into the details of it, but I did manage to keep my new suit clean. 🙂 I got a call yesterday from someone who I emailed about serving as a French tutor for a high school student in Brooklyn a…

“I love Bugs Bunny’s body.” “Oregon will never become a city.”

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