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I sure do miss the music scene in Portland….
Category: Uncategorized
links for 2006-11-06
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Tolkien and academia reunited at last….
links for 2006-11-03
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A 1971 short educational film about protein synthesis. Seems worth checking out.
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A series of spime diagrams. What is a spime? Something like a location-aware gizmo.
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More visual language. This time an attempt to map the relationships of scientific fields of study. Fascinating.
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K. got me this sweet little doll as a present. Ahoy!
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If only I had had this just two weeks ago! I’ve been looking for an online file converter like this for a while.
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A very cool Google Maps and ?something? mashup. A virtual walking tour of Toronto.
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I haven’t actually checked the *quality* of the links, but it’s awfully nice to have the Wasteland Notes in a sidebar. It beats skipping to the back of the book.
links for 2006-11-02
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I really wanted to go to this, but it was super expensive and there’s that whole full-time job thing… At least I can listen to the lectures. Bruce Sterling is awesome, as always.
links for 2006-11-01
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I think this podcast was recommended by Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing
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Something to try out, anyway.
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Interactive communication between a plurality of users
links for 2006-10-31
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mashup(social.neighborhood.info + google) = ???
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Home, home at last
Made it home safe and in good time.
too tired to write more.
Paros II
Man, getting corn-on-the-cob from a stand at the beach is the bees-knees. We did that times2.
Power went out all over the island as we strolling through the twisty, turny, cavelike (12c.) streets just as we arrived at the Il Sussuro (?) Garden Restaurant. The old man brought out a lantern for us to read the menu by. It seemed like the thing to do, so we ate dinner there.
I had octopus for the first time. Chewy.
Navigating the superdark streets without light was quite an adventure. The lights didn’t come back on until we got back to the hotel.
Onward to Mykonos!
Flickr photos
I’ve uploaded some photos to my flickr account. Check ’em out!
Captain Marcos’ Taverna!
Wow.
We had the best dinner.
After driving forever down a windy dirt-track (and scaring Sarah in the process)–I had spotted a faded, hand-painted sign while driving towards Perissa or the White/Red/Black Beaches that said (in Greek) “Captain Marcos’ Beach”–we arrived at the most beautiful and isolated beach in Santorini. I had my first swim in the Mediterranean. Whee!
After a swim, we headed back to Captain Marcos’ Taverna, where he and his wife spoke “piccolo english” and we spoke “poccolo greek”, but that was enough to get one of the best meals of my life. Some kind of fish that he caught that day, the feta cheese made from their goat eating just outside the window and fresh tomatoes from their garden beneath the window.
Captain Marcos may have scared away the Germans, but we had a wonderful time. Yum yum yum.
(Sarah had ouzo, the lush!, but I didn’t, because I was driving.)
Lots of other stuff–it was our busiest day on the island so far–but am running out of time at the internet cafe.
Tomorrow: off to Naxos! (Though I think we could easily spend a million more days at Captain Marcos’ Taverna, though we’d soon be round as houses….)