Here's a gallery of burning man photos. We should get something together for next year. (via robotwisdom)

wine sales via the internet gets a legal boost.

One more thing about my vacation: I ate a lot of lame food. My sister had her kids (9 year old Martin was only interested in onion rings, and only in the Burger King style) so we mostly ate at mid-priced "family" restaurants, which my Dad, who's pretty much given up cooking, also frequents. You always hear how overweight Americans are, but in NY you don't see it so much, at least not in our fashionable Manhattan haunts. The Midwest is making up for us. Everything was overdone and overblown. I call it big food, sort of like big hair: everything seems inflated; larger than life. It turns out that there is nothing that cannot be fried, not to mention covered with melted cheese. What really got to me, though, was the incredible amount of food that was wasted. Between the kids and the seniors, it seemed like most of the food went uneaten, and it wasn't like there were more sensible menu options. They kept offering us doggy bags, but it generally seemed like a bad idea. They would only be thrown out a week later, after the grease had eaten through the Styrofoam containers. There was already enough of that going on in the refrigerator. Maybe it's worse that a lot of people actually do finish those enormous portions, hamburgers the sized of grapefruits, french fries the size (and nutritional equivalent) of sticks of butter. No wonder people get mad if they have to park more than 10 feet from the restaurant door. It made me appreciate the range and quality of food available here, not to mention the talents of some of the amateur chefs among us.

Cam had this useful link to the air traffic control system command center where you can check the delay status of flights at any airport in the country.

Summer is a sort of Ocean, but not boundless. A bit of melancholy infects its further shore. We would rather not return to the workaday, but there is nowhere to remain. Only a vagueness that grows chill.

Boy if that doesn't sum it up way beyond my ability to do so. Cheers to Mr. Wilson. I say cheers because I am taking the Wheel's advice concerning my precious sample of cask # 14240, a taste everyday, and what a taste.

And I truly wish I could not relate to you concerning the failing health of your father, but I can, and the eloquence of your grief should not be dismissed as "sophistry." You honor him.

this is a note i sent to all at our wine company "APB for great food*** i have been eating here almost since they opened (less than 1 year) and the wine list really really needs help (drink the one riesling)*** finally last night i had to tell them and i/us may try to help but the food has been and continue's to REALLY ROCK*** KORI 253 Church*** maybe its dont care about the wine drink the one riesling maybe the beer have the plum wine with the recent new dessert chef's treats*** for me KORI and WALLSE are my two best of 2000 so far*** peace"

Jim Marybeth and I had lots of good food in Cape Cod (on our first annual visit to the mom's) but the best meal (go starving) was in Providence RI at Empire 123 Empire St. #401-621-7911 in the new up and coming downtown...

"Harry Potter: Millennial Child" w/ Eugene Schwartz at the Open Center 12/1/00

Bayard's old review from previous chef will be expensive and new chef is even better i hear....check out thier web site might have to call and get the pearl room

Here's a familiar looking group blog about food. And here's a strange one about not eating food. "You can eat if you want to; that's your prerogative... I used to play that game... I know what it's like... But I'm just not interested in it any more..."

Writing a little script to parse the access logs. Here's some stuff I found out.

People have recently followed links from these pages to Dave's page:

From a side list of links:
http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/ethel/blogger.html
http://www.drmenlo.com/home.html
http://unxmaal.com/
http://www.misterpants.com/start/index.html
http://www.nwlink.com/~rxg/piffle.html
Nice comment in the blog itself:
http://www.freakytrigger.com/caotm.html

And I'm very pleased to find Mr. Wilson's Arboretum favorably mentioned on:
http://www.groksoup.com/site/Texting/ (august 17 entry)

[update: I just saw that we were noted as one of Chrisitine Vachon's links in an interview on contentville.com. I'm going to have to give Rachael's page the points on that one.]

Sitting here at Bill's in Jersey City, as meteorologist, looking at lower Manhattan, looks like rain to me. Take cover people.

I liked Dave's Survivor thinking (Rich won == G.W.Bush will win,) although I tried to parrot this and people weren't buying. Anyway, I only saw a small bit of 2 shows, but this thread (keep clicking 'next in thread') seems full of info from people much more knowledgable than me. Maybe too knowledgeable?

Thanks for the baseball tip Dave. It's even more interesting than I thought it would be (1953 style next inning.) Did they say how they are doing it? Probably its something like the on-the-fly video morphing stuff they use to insert the mph and such (wheel linked to a story on it last week.) Like filters in photoshop, but running real time at 30fps. Cool. I often want to comment on your posts, maybe we could make a discussion page somewhere here that you could link to just for comments from your blogger page.

saving grace - funny british film about a small town (c0rnwall) widow growing (a huge amount of) pot to pay off her husband's debts. worth seeing, if somewhat silly - great corn flakes scene after two local ladies have a tea party (-lb)

a flood destroyed the crops of my favorite organic team at the Green Market but still plenty to choise from. bought 3 kinds of tomatoes and two types of corn and cranbery beans....

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This must be part of the jodi.org conspiracy.

new beatles album out soon i hear--will it be #1 selling album (thriller mike jackson / 40 million) of all time??

Neil Young : 08-17-2000, Jones Beach Amphitheater, Wantagh, New York w/ The Music In Head Band

1.Motorcycle Mama--Comes a Time '78
2.Powderfinger--Rust Never Sleeps '79
3.Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere--Everybody Knows... '69
4.I Believe In You--After the Goldrush '70
5.Unknown Legend--Harvest Moon '92
6.Dance, Dance, Dance--Crazy Horse's Crazy Horse '71
7.Buffalo Springfield Again--Silver and Gold '00
8.Razor Love--Silver and Gold '00
9.From Hank To Hendrix--Harvest Moon '92
10.Daddy Went Walkin' --Silver and Gold '00
11.Peace Of Mind--Comes a Time '78
12.Walk On--On the Beach '74
13.Winterlong--Decade '76
14.Bad Fog Of Loneliness
15.Words--Harvest '72
16.Harvest Moon--Harvest Moon '92
17.World On A String--Tonight's the Night '75
18.Tonight's The Night--Tonight's the Night '75
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19.All Along The Watchtower--Dylan's John Wesley Harding '67,Hendrix's Electric Ladyland '68, Bobfest at Madison Square Garden '93
20.Like A Hurricane--American Stars 'n' Bars '77
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21.Mellow My Mind--Tonight's the Night '75

Music In Head Tour Band : The Music In Head Band
Neil Young - vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica
Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass
Jim Keltner - drums
Ben Keith - Pedal Steel
Spooner Oldham - keyboards
Pegi Young - background vocals
Astrid Young - background vocals

some dude said :
"Terrific show, very interesting setlist, I'm sure you'll agree, lots of stuff from deep in the catalogue, lots of stuff I've never heard in concert before (or, perhaps, don't remember--how could that happen?), like "Motorcycle Mama," with Astrid and Pegi really belting out accompanying vocals; "Dance, Dance, Dance," which Neil gave to Crazy Horse for their first solo album and which can also be found, my sources tell me, on a '91 Neil bootleg, "Winterlong," an early composition unreleased until the Decade collection; "World on a String" and "Mellow My Mind," not the best-known tunes from Tonight's the Night ; and "Bad Fog of Loneliness," an ancient-sounding psychedelic-pop thing with a country edge that I can find no history for. Pretty much everything had some kind of an edge to it, as you would expect from Mr. Young; even the slowest, mellowest tunes seemed dangerously unstable. Pretenders opened, and did a couple of the star's songs, kicking off their set with a sinuous "The Loner" and doing a hard-rock take on "The Needle and the Damage Done." "Brass in Pocket (I'm Special)" was the encore and the highlight.

i,m sure this was posted discussed etc so sorry if its old news

Are you watching this golf match?

The web is really fast on Sunday mornings.

Anybody out there using IE 4.01 on the Mac? Rumor has it some pages here are crashing a machine with that setup. Can anyone confirm/deny this? IE 4.5 and 5.0 are both fine I know. Thanks. (Any other observations about differences in different browsers would be appreciated as well.)

Mr. Jim, Mr. Alex, Mr. Dave, Mr. Bill, Mr. Wheel, Miss Rachael, and Mr. Mark, do we have the energy, means, freedom of schedule, and location to have a party in the NY area next Saturday that would include all of you, and yours, and as many as five or six people I might invite? Maybe we will, maybe we won't. Either way, hope to see all of you during a visit bringing me to the area 26-31 Aug.

Not sure whether or not he's hooked up and so therefore this message is almost like smoke, released in semi-readable puffs, to be read from a distance, but if the wind's too strong what good will it be? Of course, if there was wind I might not even be writing this. How very enigmatic. How mysterious.

The search for oneself and that ultimate purpose, if one is lucky, is a search carried out till the dying day. The search is the end, not the means to it. And like smoke in many ways.

That idea of getting out of the rat race and stopping to smell the poppys, is a good one, but let's not let it rule us. Often there are dissenting factors to consider.

Jim, who are you talking to, and what the hell are you trying to say?

Fair question.

Magee. Magee. Magee. Not to rush you across the country or anything, or to interfere with the time you might spend with parents in Houston (forecast for next week 95, 95, 95, 96, 95, 95), but repeat after me, "Mom, Dad, love you, not always, but in the end, however, gotta go, bye." Get to New Orleans, great town, fascinating, historic, culturally rich, there's the French Quarter, Garden District, St. Charles Ave., Uptown, Downtown, Bywater, Fabourg Marigny, Fabourg St. John, the Bayou St. John, Treme, Mid-City, City Park, Audubon Park, Tulane, Loyola, Xavier, see that guy there, sells crack cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, good guy, and that guy over there does the same thing but he's an asshole, by the way the forcast for NO this next week is 97, 95, 98, 97, 95.

Magee, can you hear me? Hey, hey, hey, are you listening? We need to get out of this part of the country and up towards that NY area where they've been having sex with the seventies all summer long.

Mark, Mark, come in Mark...