Archive for 2008
New Year’s Eve dinner at Angelini Osteria
Aviva found this restaurant somewhere, and I’m glad she did. An Osteria typically serves food somewhere between the quicker trattoria and the all-out restaurante, while also offering more localized, seasonal, special dishes. Angelini Osteria (323.297.0070) fills that niche perfectly. We started with the fried calamari; the plate is huge, definitely share any appetizer among two […]
December 25th, 2008 by alephnaught
Guidelines for Online Success
Title: Guidelines for Online Success Author: Rob Ford (Editor), Julius Wiedemann (Editor) Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc (June 1, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 3822823678 ISBN-13: 978-3822823675 This is a typical Taschen book – lots of great graphics, lots of white space, critical eye to page layout. The content is good too; the book […]
December 21st, 2008 by alephnaught
Another day in Pasadena
We didn’t know what we wanted to do yesterday, so we finally decided to go to Pasadena; we wanted to go to the Burlington Coat Factory there (we’d heard it was a large store) and the Norton Simon Museum to see the Vermeer that’s on loan. So, we dropped the dog off with Jeff, our […]
December 15th, 2008 by alephnaught
Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team
Title: Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team Author: George Jonas Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (November 29, 2005) ISBN-10: 0743291646 ASIN: B001GVJCC4 This was an interesting book to read – I found it on the discount table at our local Borders and, since I’ve seen the movie Munich, I thought […]
December 14th, 2008 by alephnaught
Free lunches
We worked through lunch reviewing architecture materials my team have been creating; we’re taking on a bunch of new responsibilities and this is the best way I know to learn enough to start taking responsibility – start at the top and bottom and work to the middle. So we brough in lunch, from a local […]
December 14th, 2008 by alephnaught
Chakra Restaurant
Yesterday we ran errands, purchasing a new iPod for me (I could have done with a black and white screen and a better scroll wheel, but having 120Gb is a huge upgrade given my old, dead iPod as a 20Gb model – hey, I use it for music, I put photos on my phone; I […]
December 7th, 2008 by alephnaught
Pasadena flea market
We visited the big flea market at Pasadena City College – they take over four floors of the parking structure; its really big! A B2 bomber flew overhead for a while – must be a big airbase nearby A sculpture on the (long) walk to the flea market from the parking area We got a […]
November 29th, 2008 by alephnaught
Pictures of Basil
Basil is our little schipperke. He’s almost 15 1/2 years old and still going strong (as long as he gets his meds regularly). Four new pictures of our little bear.
November 24th, 2008 by alephnaught
Pictures from Palm Desert
We drove out to Palm Desert to visit Aviva’s mom and her boyfriend Dave. They’re snowbirds – they spend the winter in Palm Desert and the summer outside Detroit. We walked on El Paseo on Thursday (lots of closed stores, not a good sign for the economy), and walked around Palm Springs on Saturday (the […]
November 23rd, 2008 by alephnaught
Tales From Nowhere
Title: Tales From Nowhere Author: Don George (editor) Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Lonely Planet (September 1, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 1741045193 ISBN-13: 978-1741045192 I saw this book in a travel bookstore in Burbank and figured it would be a good read for Italy. We put off our vacation (so we could spend the time searching […]
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- I'm a father and husband, have two schipperkes, like to read, compose music, travel. And I manage a couple software development teams at DIRECTV.
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December 31st, 2008 by alephnaught