One of the many things I enjoy about living in Paris is having wine delivered. It feels decadent, urban, sophisticated. We made a, for us, huge order yesterday. At the end we simply asked the cavistes to add a few bottles at her discretion. Today I opened a 2006 Pernand – Vergelesses, 1er Cru – …
Unbelievably McCain is ahead of Obama in some polls. I have given up arguing this; if I find idiots who support McCain I simply start chanting "8 more years, 8 more years!" From Boing Boing. http://www.boingboing.net/PosterArt72dpi.jpg
Update: I’m still unhappy with Yahoo, but at least their customer service department responded fairly quickly and refunded my money. Kudos to them for fixing this problem eventually. — No other way to put it. $20 for a single game. Fine, I am desperate. We got take-away food, ready to watch the game. Result: we’re …
A colleague of mine was kind enough to provide a list of restaurants to try in Paris. I plan to try out these and others in our time in Paris. Hopefully I will even write up a quick review on each. I know the world doesn’t need another Paris restaurant review site, but my angle …
We ate at this nice little restaurant for our first lunch in Paris. This is located on rue Benjamin Franklin. What we ate: Mediterranean salad: fresh, nice. Downside was the shrimp appeared to have come from a can Steak hache with fries. Very nicely done, medium rare and it looked so good I forwent the …
Just minutes ago I posted that according to Grooveshark I have no friends. In addition to using Grooveshark I have also been using Zune’s social features over the past few days. And who knew, there are apparently other people like me out there! Or at least that’s how I am interpreting "listeners like you". I …
I am trying out a new online music streaming service, Grooveshark. It has some good press around it’s recommendation engine. Fair enough, I will check it out. Pleasant UI if a little web 2.0-heavy. Needs a Java app on the PC to check out your current music and share it with others (can you hear …
So much to write about… we are moving to Paris soon. I just finished a huge ride in the Alps. We are on holiday enjoying the sunshine in Zurich now, but I will start writing again soon, really.
This is the slogan of SAAB. I was listening to "This American Life" and it is sponsored by SAAB and their tag-line is "born from jets." And it hit me. This is perhaps the dumbest slogan I have ever heard. And that is saying something. First of all with fuel costing what it does, who …
What is this phrase? It’s the Swiss phrase one says before everyone eats, equivalent to bon appetite in French or buon appetito in Italian. I’m not sure precisely how this translates, I always think something like “enjoy” but that is just me, no actual Swiss people were consulted in the writing of this post. One …