Archive for November, 2009

Travelling with a Netbook?

After reading this article from TimesOnline about the “do’s and dont’s of travel blogging,” I realize I should add some more interesting types of media here. I’d like to be able to include videos and more photos from my travels, but right now, all I’ve got to capture those is my Canon G10 camera (and [...]

Updated the About Me section

Last week I was pretty heavily caffeinated just about all week long. Luckily, because of the caffeine flowing through my veins each and every night—and late at night, at that—I had some time to work on this blog. I’ve updated the design, css and plugins and written the About Me section. Let me know if [...]

‘Eating Animals’ and Other Convictions

Yesterday I went to a lecture/reading of Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book Eating Animals. Besides saying “novels are useless,” he had a lot of intelligent, clever & funny things to say about vegetarianism. Though he’s a big advocate for vegetarianism, he did say his main thesis is to believe strongly in your convictions—whatever they are. [...]

Traditional Cocktails Rec’d by my Father

So, I spent the past weekend in Connecticut visiting my family. Inevitably, that involved a visit to the casino (Mohegan Sun, this time). Instead of gambling away my hard-earned birthday cash, I sat at the bar with my recently-turned-21 sister and my Dad. We made a list of cocktail drinks that my Dad felt were [...]

Graffiti in Prague (2006)

I recently uploaded my photos from a trip to Prague (in 2006 – a little late to be posting photos, I admit). In my batch of something like 200 photos, I came across this beauty, but I can’t place exactly where in Prague it was… Help! Have you seen it? *** UPDATE *** After digging [...]