Headed to Fort Lauderdale on a redeye. On the list of things I want to do, this is on about page 987.
Currently listening to:
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
Great re-issue of a seminal album - you can argue about the sound quality (check the Amazon reviews for extended navel gazing by high fidelity neck beard types), but this is improvement over anything other than vinyl played on a high quality system.Save Me
Janiva Magness: Devil Is An Angel Too
Nice bluesey vocalist
Upcoming events
- Lopez house - start of constructionsometime this Fall, or sooner.
- Fall photo trip to Africa (Sabi sabi)
- Trip to Normandy
What I'm reading now:
Flickr.com
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Blogs I read daily
April 10, 2010
February 25, 2010
Comment on TripAdvisor
I'm looking for a hotel for us for a short trip to Paris. We'll probably stay at the Hotel Saint Severin, where we've stayed before - great location (Latin Quarter just off Blvd St. Michael) + the best hotel cat ever: Isis. In looking at the hotel reviews on TripAdvisor, someone summarized French hotel management in a nutshell: the term "smoking" or "non-smoking" rooms means simply whether you're planning on smoking in the rooms. It has nothing to do with whether every person who's occupied the room since WWII smoked in the room. Rather it's a statement of your intent. If you were confused it's because you're a stupid American. However, I say that acknowledging that the last 3 times I've been to Paris, the Hotel Saint Severin is the hotel we've stayed at. It's clean, reasonably priced for Paris, perfect location plus Isis.
November 29, 2009
Queen Elizabeth's
got a pretty nice gig going. This is some detail on one of the gates in the front of Buckingham Palace taken on our trip a couple of weeks ago. As you can see, even her unicorns have golden collars.
November 22, 2009
In Green Park - London
From our trip to London - a scene from Green Park.
Nissan Figaro Wimbledon
From our trip to London a couple of weeks ago - on the last day we were there we saw this car parked in Belgravia. Very cute. I'd never seen one before, from the badging we figured out that it's a Nissan Figaro Wimbledon. I've never seen one in the US.
November 10, 2009
Definitely the smallest
car I've even seen. On Kings Road near Sloane Square.
In St. James Park
Near Buckingham Palace
View toward St Pauls from in front of the Tate Modern
Fisheye lenses make self-portraits a lot easier.
