Now that the haze of the red-eye flight back has lifted I’ve finalized some impressions from the trip. Here they are (in worst to best order):
The Bad
US Airways is an awful airline. Don’t even try to complain because US Airways doesn’t even have a real person answer when you call!
The Imperial Palace is an awful [...]
I just got back from a trip to Las Vegas with a couple of friends and my father over the Memorial Day weekend. We all had a great time playing poker, eating, and playing more poker!
The only down side of the trip was the incredible crappiness of our hotel, the aged Imperial Palace. Between the [...]
I got a call from OrbitzTLC yesterday about a little problem with my itinerary:
Thanks to United deciding to cancel our departing flight from Las Vegas the return part of our trip got shuffled to where we’d have to take a time machine to make our connecting flight.
Orbitz’s system was (at the time) committed to us [...]
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May 23, 2007
The Minimalist - For the Love of a Good Burger
By MARK BITTMAN
I’M sure you know how to make a burger. But do you make a burger you love, one that people notice, one that draws raves?
In a world where “burger” most often means a thin piece of [...]
Sorry about the lack of pictures. I took them yesterday and meant to get them up, but alas, I had to do work for Agnes first! They’ll be up tonight or tomorrow — including a tour of our [scary] back building.
Anyway.
Here’s the vanity we’ve decided on for the master bath.
The only thing is that it’s [...]
I’ll update with some pictures later this evening (if I can), but I just wanted to shout on the mountaintop that we have actual, like, pipes in our house.
Our tub and toilets were delivered a few days ago and when I stopped by the house yesterday evening I noticed that a lot of work had [...]
Agnes has taken to writing out lists in marker and taping them to the wall in order to keep track of her myriad of tasks and projects related her business. Occasionally she’ll even make a list for me and tape it next to hers.
Sadly the computer-based lists never seem to work for her or me. [...]
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May 9, 2007
The Minimalist - A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks
By MARK BITTMAN
THE question I’m asked more often than any other is, “What kitchen equipment should I buy?”
Like cookbooks, kitchen equipment is a talisman; people believe that buying the right kind will make them good cooks. Yet some of the best cooks I’ve [...]
We’ve decided.
Here are our flooring and choices for the kitchen, bathrooms, and tile for the shower.
Going from left to right, the grayish porcelain tile will go in the downstairs half-bath, the cork will be the flooring for our kitchen (floating floor), the spa-like textured white porcelain tile and light blue glass mosaic for our shower.
As [...]
Don’t worry. We’re not moving to a McMansion.
I saw an interesting list on Treehugger today. What do you think?
1. Sprawl development contributes to a loss of support for public facilities and public menities.
2. Sprawl undermines effective maintenance of existing infrastructure.
3. Sprawl increases societal costs for transportation.
4. Sprawl consumes more resources than other development patterns.
5. Sprawl [...]
It was a long time coming. Between navigating the ridiculous US visa process, doing the long-distance thing, first Miami to Barcelona, and then Miami to Venezuela, my friend and third-year college roommate finally married his Venezuelan sweetheart last weekend.
We cashed in some points and stayed at the newly-converted Westin (née Omni) Colonnade Hotel in Coral [...]
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