just placed my first
kozmo.com order. their movie selection isnt very big but i managed to find something. i was almost more curious to see if they could navigate my difficult delivery scenario (no buzzer, no number)than anything else. some decent junkyfoody munchies options but no bubbly water or soymilk. nice that you can place an order and specify an hour window to receive it. ill keep you posted on the outcome.
Here's the live webcam of the Pacific Northwest Lego Train Club's attempt to break the world record for longest lego train layout.
Here's a page of photos of the same. They are setting it up inside the Seattle Center. Serious geekery. (from
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Went to see Neil Young last night @ Jones Beach. No beer sold here ! Drove from JC over the bayone bridge to Staten Island expwy to belt pkwy to southern state pkwy. Cleaned the return trip at midnight in one hour.Super excelent sound system and it was net broadcasted as well.
The pretenders opened. CH looks the exact same as when I saw her 20 years ago! They finished up with Neil's "The Needle".
Neil's touring with I guess you'd call it the family band. Wife and Sister on back up vocals and back up hippy groove dancing (the sister is HOT) plus keyboard, drum, peddle steel, bass and NY. Mentioned that steel peddle guys been with him 30 yrs and the rest averaging 10 or so. These people have names and I do them a diservice not to mention them.
Opened with "Motor Cycle Momma" and the sister really wailed. The sound guy must have turned her down after that but it was a nice blast while it lasted. Lots of acoustic and electric but it all really cooked. "Harvest Moon" got a big pop from the new upper deck croud 'cause they alone could see an early H M coming up from behind the stage. Neil kept asking every one how they were doing and that he was good. He noted that last time he was here that there was no upper deck and that all those people would have been up in the sky for another big upper deck croud pop.
I really dug "Walk On", they worked it for it's full rockin' potential.
They played from 9:15 to almost midnight.
Let me dig arround the NY news group for a set list and I'll be back in a while with sumore.
I'm gushing cause it was my first NY show.
had lunch at the infamous Gundel (art nouveau building and restaurant since 1896) in Budapest today--very old world--but ok and finished with a 1964 Tokaj!!--the baths here are great, i dont think i will see much of the city besides restaurants and my hotels mineral baths (there are 140 mineral baths in budapest and my hotel/baths were also built in the late 1800's)
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great food in the famous wine region Tokaj--more details later
from current reading of r b fuller (some of you may know i saw him in 1984 and he told me (us) that we should mate with dolfins (which always makes me think about the original flounder of greenpeace that got a blowjob by a dolfin when young and made him go "wild: for them--now as some may know he now left and has his own boat that just rams boats that are doing the wrong fishing--cool!!)--any way heres a few quotes from :operating manual for spaceship earth (1969):"the universe is the aggragate of all of humanity's consciously-apprehended and communicated experience with the nonsimultaneous, nonidentical, and only partially overlapping, always complementary, weighable and unweighable, ever omni-transforming, event seguences"..."the evolutionary antibody to the extinction of humanity through specialization (---he hates this as he thinks its limiting and limits creativity etc....----) appeared in the form of the computer..." and i love how he call's us (humans) "plantings"
i miss the hash--the king hussian(sp?) "cream" the most--it was "classic" and yummy (~10$ gram)--i miss it today against my wishes to stay stimulant free, ok i am not considering the usual ginseng, caffine etc, but i am counting alcohol which now is flooding my new wrong's right now (i o d'd the other nite and have been recoupin for my apoitments in tokaj, hungary)--the magala "cream" (14$) was much stronger from india but i dont miss it as much (actually i miss linda the most:>), fyi the nepal "cream" was nice too ($8 but at a cheaper place)--now i'd pay double for some screapins off the dust bowl of any bar--yes i could find it here (prague) but its too much work and seeing this guy shooting up heroin on the street couple days ago turned me off from talking to the usual caracter...i drank 2 nite cause my lovely fav pasha(se sustanence abuse) was closed so i didnt want to cross the river to deal with the crowds so i went to the "hot" Kampa Grill with its room filled with old folks with sexy "local gils" serving 1986 Vega Sicilia below my company's whore-sale...whatever i am toasted now and have to go buy some....cigaretts-_chow...
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new absinthe in prague called T.H.C.--nice color too--most absinthe's here are clear green and suck flavor wise--this one looks translucent and may taste better cant find a shop open selling it--also in berlin we saw a super absinthe shop--looks like my favorite spanish brand has released a red colored one (why??)
prob not understandable but this could be one of the finest
tea shop in the world--wish we had this kind in nyc (they dont do mail order:>(
one of the best middle eastern restaurants i have ever
been to, as expensive also...
this
guys (gaetano giulio zumbo--other artist are also shown on the link) works were some of the best at
"7 Hills" in Berlin, they also had the best assembled "goddess sculpture's" i think ever shown 3000 b.c.+
i liked this very very
much-a
we had the scarious meal in a long time in an old world (but cool) speak easy-ish super fancy restaurant**very good wines luckly**it was rough (for example brussel sproats au gratin was cold watery and cover in two slices of american style cheese...)we are in prague
Wiley has really done it this time. The white gazpacho and clam appetizer, new to the menu at 71 Clinton St., is quite possibly the greatest thing of all time. I'll try to get a picture next time, and maybe weasel some info out of the chef himself. Best bet: go without a reservation at 6:00 sharp, grab a seat at the bar, and order this app. Get out before the Upper East Side fully takes over. I guarantee you'll be licking the plate (bowl?) clean.
In case you are having trouble making up your mind, here are two web sites to help you out. The
American Presidential Candidate Selector will help you pick a winner. Supposedly I should vote for David McReynolds (Socialist party - I never heard of him either,) and actually, after
reading up on him, I've found we do hold a lot in common. That maximum wage thing kind of ruins it for me though. It did pick Nader as my number 2, so it's not too far off.
These questions were much harder for me to answer, but the
Belief System Selector has me pegged as a neo-pagan, which, given the possible outcomes, is pretty accurate (although I don't think of myself as a neo-pagan; I prefer spiritual non-euclidean, but that's pretty much just to end those types of conversations.) How 'bout you?
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I admire from afar the world of fine dining and hate to muck up the page with my petty, pedestrian miseries but today coming off the roof to avoid torential rain I went to hide and dine at the neighborhood TacoBell and a notice on the door is giving me three days, Aug 13, to deal with the shutting down for renovation of my favorite eatery, I daresay, my shack of sustenance. Is there no end to the hardship? Speaking of hardship I contemplated the life of crime this morning at 6:20 walking the isles of a Save a Center grocery store, having already purchased my heat n' serve lunch (crawfish fettucine), I curiously wandered to the liquor isle to spy the single malt and this particular store had them all behind glass and key, and no wonder, with probably forty varieties, including beau coup Glenns, and a bottle of 18 year-old Macallan's, priced at $71. I became dizzy with desire and saw myself doing a bold smash and grab routine, but instead proceeded calmly to the checkout and paid for my banana, two glazed donuts, bag of peanuts, and the aforementioned fettucine.
Jim going out of town and asking us not to f things up, is he challenging us?
I know a few of you, like me, are on dial-up accounts through inch.com. Things haven't been going too well for the last few days. Some sites load fine, others are either painfully slow, or won't load at all. My traceroutes show lots of problems all over the map, but most notably in the bbnplanet.net system. This fits with the
internet traffic report which is still reporting a bbn problem in Washington D.C. (100% packet loss washdc1-br1.bbnplanet.net.) However, inch isn't noting that as a problem. They say
"08/08/00 11:31 The slow connections problem continues to be a circuit between Chantilly, VA and Chicago and involves Sprint. This
indicates that the circuit must be used for peering (exchanging traffic) between the 2 networks. We've been assured that
they have been working on it constantly, as it is affecting numerous customers in the mid-atlantic region."
Either they are missing something, or Sprint owns bbn? Is that right? I guess probably that is the case since VA seems to be about the right location. Man, if you are on the east coast, you really don't want to have a problem between you and MAE-east. Trust me. Arrrrgggghhhh. What about you non-inchers? Any noticable problems lately?