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Taxes, Policy, and other Delusions
So after a hard morning of touristing we repair to Restaurant La Tour Eiffel. It is about 200 meters from its namesake on the Quai D’Orsay, maybe 50 yards from the Seine. Now if you have ever done this at … Continue reading
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Roughing it on the Grand Radonee
So after a brisk 20 klicks over hill and dale Sairey and I stagger into La Vieux Logis, drop our packs and begin attempting to mitigate the pain. This means a NINE course meal using fifteen pieces of cutlery and … Continue reading
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Alcoholism and life
Okay so there I am in a tiny urban grocery store, Carrefour’s City, maybe 1500 square feet, about the size of the potato chip section of a WalMart. At the check out I realize everyone of the seven shoppers I … Continue reading
Corked off
Man am I getting tired of corked wine. I am ESPECIALLY tired of $50 wine that’s corked. Last summer I visited Columbia Crest and discovered they test all cork deliveries with spectrometers refusing any that are tainted. This should be … Continue reading
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Tagged arise, blackbird winery, Columbia crest, cork taint, corked, TBA, TCA
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IPad & Phone camera tripod
This post is not about food and drink, but about gadgets. The reason I’m putting it up is because there are any number of people out there taking very respectable photos and even movies these days done with an IPad … Continue reading
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Tagged gadgets, gorillapod, ipad, iphone, Joby, nokia, tabletop tripods, tripods
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