Archive for April, 2009
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
New Soft Top for Desdemona
Time to break out the summer clothes and get ready for the beach! Desi is now dressed appropriately in her new soft top.
The instructions suggest that it takes about an hour to install… yeah, right. Of course, it might if (a) they used “passenger side” and “driver side” rather than left and right [...]
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Our Living Room (Before and After)
If you didn’t already know, some time back Cali ate our sofa. Finally, it’s out with the old, in with the new.
Yesterday the guys from 1-800-Got-Junk came out and removed our old monster of a sofa (or what remained of it). I recommend them highly — professional, hard-working friendly.
Here’s the old:
This morning Home [...]
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
What Should I Title This?
Blue in the face?
Clowning around?
Having a ball?
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Winding Down
It’s the end of our last evening of this trip her in NYC. We’re all tired tonight but revitalized in the greater sense in mind and spirit (body will have to wait until we get away from the many temptations of this city).
I’m returning with a whole list of ideas for fresh projects to explore [...]
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
The Vesper
We’re out at Vintage in NYC where I am sipping on a Vesper — a.k.a. the James Bond Martini. It’s one of the best and most gentlemanly drinks I have ever encountered.
The origin of the Vesper is the 1953 novel Casino Royale in which Bond explicitly describes the drink to his waiter. What [...]
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
A Rather Steampunk Chronograph
After not wearing a watch for many years I couldn’t pass up this rather one with its combination of high tech features (stop watch with splits) and old school style. Found it on sale at the Swatch store of all places.
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
New York Doesn’t Slow Down Due to Rain
It’s been a very rainy day in the Big Apple today, but the city doesn’t seem to notice one bit. The streets and stores are packed with people looking their fashionable best. Back home a rainy day seems to be an excuse for wearing your rattiest sweats and hunkering down.
Today had mostly been a [...]
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Collect the Whole Set
Cleopatra’s Needle: the oldest man-made object in Central Park.
I’d previously seen the ones in Paris and London but did not realize one was right here. I guess I should now visit the one still in Egypt.
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Traveling Light
Just landed in New York where we’ve brought no laptops for the first time on years. iPhones only.
Mine’s loaded with everything I think I might need. We’ll see how well it works.
Note: this is my fifth attempt to post this due to a bug on the WordPress app. Inauspicious start!
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Success through Failure
You learn more from your failures than you can ever hope to learn from your successes.
In that spirit, here is what Ariel and I “made” last night:
We took the Safety and Basic Usage class for the vertical milling machine. The project was to make a 50 coin “penny counter”. We needed one more [...]
