Archive for August, 2006
youtubing
so late at night, having tucked in a guest just arrived from the west coast via scooter- somehow i stumble, through the auguries of the bowels of the new york times, onto this (note: The creators identified themselves as Miles Beckett, 28, of Woodland Hills, Calif.; Mesh Flinders, 26, of Petaluma, Calif., [...]
Posted: August 29th, 2006 under crazed artists, geeki, once upon a time.
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i want dinner…. waaaaaaaaaa….
Downstairs Dinner Menus:
August 28–September 2, 2006
Monday, August 28 $85 Chez Panisse Thirty-Fifth Birthday Menu
An apéritif
Hors d’oeuvre à la provençale
Fig salad with mint and crème fraîche
La grande bouillabaisse
Garden lettuces and goat cheeses
Summer fruit basket and bonbons Chez Panisse
Tuesday, August 29 $65
Chopped salad with heirloom tomatoes, bacon, [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2006 under food, neighborhood, travel.
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the gilded cage
sometimes the internet is *so* boring. for instance, as i was pouring myself a cachacha and orange juice and contemplating the lovely raindrenched vista outside, a cool and spacious airconditioned house furnished with art and a few oddlies, and the hour approaching where i shall hie myself out to a birthday party, but to retrench, [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2006 under experimental.
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choosing carefully
at this moment i am in the middle of buying a plane ticket for a good friend who is travelling from denver to help with a show next month, and i come the meal preference part of the ticket form, and i pull down the menu, and lo and behold, in this day and age [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2006 under travel.
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a good meal - for free!
the first person to tell me where the picture in the header was taken will be taken out to dinner at a restaurant of their choice. the first person to tell me where the picture in the header of the about page was taken is really sharp, but gets the same thing… for that [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2006 under experimental.
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events
Strange happenings: had a meeting with a client during which [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2006 under events.
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stolen from boing boing of course…
a quite fine animation … actually a meta-animation, which makes it quite cooler, at least to me. let’s hear it for abstraction!
Posted: August 19th, 2006 under geeki.
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the news from sarasota… pre-hurricane
everybody seems to be just fine here, at least they aren’t shooting anyone. i’m still looking for a girlfriend, but what else is new? my airconditioner works, and for that i am exceedingly grateful…
a large local homebuilder went belly up on tuesday with 71 houses in various states of completion. the company had sold 123 [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2006 under neighborhood.
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and *another* good meal
tonight was the occasion of our fourth wednesday night dinner… the theme being vegetables and readings- i added a pair of lovely yellowtail snapper to the vegetables, and here’s what came of the readings…
1. ode to clouds - pablo neruda - english
2. bushs twentieth hundred days - shouts and murmurs, new yorker
3. stock traders handbook, [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2006 under food.
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a job opening
Here you are folks, a job with a realistic salary…
Position: Web Developer (Part-time to Hire)
Location: New York City
Salary: Commiserate with experience
Company: Colin Cowie Lifestyle
Contact email: rsenzon@colincowie.com
Posted: August 8th, 2006 under geeki.
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