“The future is already here. …” *
Quail salad, rabbit, lamb.
At base, Southern, but done in a wonderful California way. The best meal we had in New Orleans.
Wine: Chorey-Cote-de-Beaune 2001, domaine tollot beaut. like calif pinot noire
Yesterday we ate at K Pauls, the original populizer of Cajan food back in the 80’s. Also a very good meal.
George dureau, male figures, satyrs
gerald cannon, google image search
evelyn witherspoon, portraits
Agape Spoon tub. Modern fan co. Vola bathroom accessories. Fortuny lamp.
A blaring alarm roused us, hearts a pounding, from a deep sleep at 2am. As soon as we realized that it must be the fire alarm we hurridly threw on clothes and headed down the emergency stairs and joined the other guests in the lobby.
Two Fire Department vehicles came and after investigating for a bit [...]
Wine: La crema, Anderson Valley, 2001
Back in our funky hotel room resting our tired feet after spending the day in the French Quarter. After a lovely brunch we wandered around listening to street musicians and exploring and exploring art galleries.
Despite being November it was quite warm and, of course very humid. During the hottest part of the early [...]
Yummy. Great buffet with lots of variety.
Arrived in New Orleans yesterday for a short vacation before spending Thanksgiving in Texas.
We had a reservation in the International House hotel, but when we arrived we found we had been bumped (”upgraded” in their words) to their nearby sister hotel Loft 523. We are in an ultra-modernistic room with a concrete floor and spartan [...]
Yale’s Film Analysis site is a great reference for understanding how films are made, along with lots of illustrative stills and some clips.
It looks like it would be convenient to write some Windows device-access code in C#. This C# Tutorial looks like a good quick start.
Man, it’s nerve racking! electoral-vote.com is showing Kerry ahead by a single electoral vote. Meta-Analysis of State Polls – election.princeon.edu with somewhat more sophisticated statistical methods is predicting Kerry 311/Bush 227. The Iowa electronic market which had shown Bush ahead for the last few months is now closing towards dead even.
As a disenfranchised expatriate [...]
