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Florence
We woke up much too early and ran ragged all day. After breakfast, we walked by a painted facade and decided to shop at the open market near Piazza Republica. It was really cold (it only got into the 50sF and was really windy) so Aviva bought some purple globes and I bought some half […]
March 18th, 2009 by alephnaught
Arrival in Florence
Our flight from LAX to Paris was delayed an hour. When we got on the plane, we realized that they didn’t seat Aviva and I in aisle seats across from each other. We were across the plane from each other, and worse, we were in the last row, which meant we had less legroom, less […]
March 7th, 2009 by alephnaught
Uzumaki, Volume 2 (2nd Edition)
Title: Uzumaki, Volume 2 (2nd Edition) Author: Junji Ito (Illustrator), Annette Roman (Editor) Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; 2 edition (December 18, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 1421513900 ISBN-13: 978-1421513904 I recently finished the first volume of the Uzumaki series and just had to continue the story of the spirals. The main characters, Kirie, […]
March 6th, 2009 by alephnaught
Mac software: DropBox, Googaby, and Things
Thanks to Twitter, I found three tools that are now a critical part of my computing life. The first tool is Things. Things is a task list manager that implements the important parts of the personal task management system created by author David Allen called Getting Things Done. Tasks can have tags and notes; notes […]
March 5th, 2009 by alephnaught
MAKE YOUR POINT!: SPEAK CLEARLY AND CONCISELY ANYPLACE, ANYTIME
Title: MAKE YOUR POINT!: SPEAK CLEARLY AND CONCISELY ANYPLACE, ANYTIME Author: Bob Elliott (Author), Kevin Carroll (Author) Paperback: 132 pages Publisher: AuthorHouse (February 8, 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 1420804391 ISBN-13: 978-1420804393 Our Toastmasters club, Navigators Toastmasters, hands this book each week to the second place speaking finisher. I don’t like competition and don’t like awards […]
March 2nd, 2009 by alephnaught
Witchblade Volume 1: Witch Hunt (v. 1)
Title: Witchblade Volume 1: Witch Hunt (v. 1) Author: Ron Marz (Author), Mike Choi (Author) Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Top Cow Productions/Image Comics (February 13, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 1582409064 ISBN-13: 978-1582409061 I’ve been on a graphic novel kick lately, so when I saw this in a store (probably a Borders or a Barnes and […]
March 1st, 2009 by alephnaught
Uzumaki, Volume 1
Title: Uzumaki, Volume 1 Author: Junji Ito (Illustrator), Annette Roman (Editor) Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; 2 edition (October 16, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 1421513897 ISBN-13: 978-1421513898 I saw this book at my favorite Japanese bookstore in Los Angeles (and in New York City too), Kinokuniya, and thought I’d give it a shot. […]
March 1st, 2009 by alephnaught
The meaning of life – the 42 Firefox extensions I use
I thought it was time to share my own list of Firefox extensions that I use (I constructed this list using the Extension List Dumper, which I used to help me move from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 by identifying the extensions I needed to update or replace). I currently have 42 extensions installed. Aardvark […]
February 28th, 2009 by alephnaught
Glasses, books and Formosa Cafe
We headed out late after doing some cleaning around the apartment. First stop was Retrospecs, a nice glasses shop on Melrose in West Hollywood. Aviva ordered a new pair of glasses there, and I found some nice circular frames. The Bodhi Tree book store was nearby so we walked over. I got a book on […]
February 22nd, 2009 by alephnaught
Dinner, some shopping, and “Revolutionary Road”
We did a bunch of apartment cleaning (always made interesting by being skrunched into a one bedroom apartment while still looking for a home). We dropped Basil off at our dog sitter’s and did some errands. We ate dinner at Bistro Ka’s at the local (huge) mall, Topanga Canyon Mall run by Woodfield. The food […]
March 20th, 2009 by alephnaught