Memories of Manka’s
Posted on December 30, 2006 - Filed Under California, Food & Wine | Leave a Comment
In November I surprised my wife on her birthday. We got in the car and started driving, not to dinner in San Francisco but toward the Northern California coast, and not to our usual haunts in Muir or Stinson beaches. Not to Bolinas, the little town that counterculture built, now inhabited by a melange […]
Read More..>>O Other Town of Bethlehem: Christmas on the Amazon
Posted on December 24, 2006 - Filed Under Holiday, Brazil, Places, Cruises, Photography, Video | Leave a Comment
A few years ago I flew from the real Bethlehem, in the Middle East, to Brazil’s Bethlehem, a town called Belem at the mouth of the Amazon where after some Christmas shopping at a funky, politically-incorrect market, I began a jungly yuletide cruise. Have a look at a Windows Media video and […]
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Airline Math: Jet Blue Increases Leg Room
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under Airlines, News, Audio, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
“There are things we know that we don’t know.”
Donald Rumsfeld
I have always thought airline math was as twisted as political rhetoric. As someone who was forced at quill-point to study the value and foibles of statistics and who for many years lived down the rabbit hole of the broadcasting business (a little too close to […]
Blurb: Fast Pass to the Realm of the Literati
Posted on December 13, 2006 - Filed Under Gadgets & Cameras, Photography | Leave a Comment
Watch out National Geographic, Smedley’s Amazing Auspicious Adventures in Full-Color is nipping at your heels. You, yes you over there with the dorky photographer’s vest and the bazooka lens…you can publish your own coffee table book for just a little bit more than the price of a pound of Starbuck’s finest.
Blurb, a California startup, has […]
Read More..>>For the Boids
Posted on December 12, 2006 - Filed Under New York, Tech & Science, Misc. | Leave a Comment
A big Bronx cheer for my favorite pet store, 33rd and Bird. This marvelous aviary has flown the coop on East 33rd in Manhattan in favor of a 5 thousand-foot showroom in the Bronx. I don’t live in New York and I don’t often get to the Bronx so I’ll miss mumbling toity toid […]
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