New Google Map Guide to Airports…and Ikea?
Posted on November 29, 2011 - Filed Under Misc. | Leave a Comment
Just trying out the new Google Maps for Android. It now includes floor plans of many airports, malls and department stores. No turn-by-turn navigation yet, however, so making my way through the maze that is Ikea will, for now, continue to drive me to the brink of madness. Read about it on TechCrunch
Read More..>>Beethoven, Manatees and Ringtones: A Night with LA PHIL
Posted on November 28, 2011 - Filed Under California, Culture, Entertainment | Leave a Comment
Spent an evening at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA last week, my first visit to the warmest sounding (and looking) concert hall I have ever experienced. It did justice to a deeply satisfying performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 by pianist Emanuel Ax, and managed to take the rough edges off of [...]
Read More..>>Moving to a Tourist Town: Sonoma, California
Posted on November 22, 2011 - Filed Under Sonoma, Sustainable Tourism | Leave a Comment
After spending most of my life as either a city dweller or a mountain hermit, I have now opted for the in-between, the idyl of small town life in a tourist destination. I have moved to the middle of a city block. There are houses to the right of me, houses to the left: a [...]
Read More..>>Burmese Days
Posted on November 18, 2011 - Filed Under Burma | Leave a Comment
Bagan, Burma-Russell Johnson Who would have thought that practically overnight Aung San Suu Kyi would be allowed back into politics and a US Secretary of State would plan a visit to Burma for the first time in fifty years. When I spent some time there in the 90s, Burma was a country of spies and [...]
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