Triscribe

I remember having discussions on these issues/topics in the 90s during USENET days… here’s seeing history in the “here and now”.

Earliest Christmas carol: I heard the Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…) on Veteran’s Day. That’s really lame, it’s almost like, let’s just get through Turkey Day to get to massive shopping the next. Kind of the same for my birthday – it was one of those, not a milestone, nothing to see, [...]

In this Sunday’s NY Times: In the NY Times’ Sunday Magazine, former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poem, “The Fish,” with accompanying seafood recipes (although I’m not sure that the recipes are from him). The G subway line leaves so much to be desired, as this article on the upcoming subway lines report [...]

Happy Thanksgiving! Food, lots of food. In the NY Times: How to carve a turkey, butcher style. The accompanying video was also pretty enlightening. The NY Times’ Mark “The Minimalist” Bittman has a lovely idea on how to use leftover turkey – make turkey and mushroom barley risotto. He suggests lots of butter, at least [...]

Hi folks, Wishing you all a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving Day back stateside.  B- and I had our dinner at Les Champs, a French style restaurant and are now really stuffed. Winter has set but still comfortably cool.  A few more weeks and then 2008.  Wow.

A somewhat productive weekend – about halfway in the 50000 word National Novel Writing Month project. Otherwise a sadly lazy Sunday. Watched Kylie Kwong on Discovery Home channel. As noted in a past FC post, I can’t get over her Australian accent. This particular episode I watched had her cooking noodles with her mom and [...]

The billboards in Vegas make it seem that each casino is right there right where you can grab it. But that is not true – it is always a struggle to get from one to the other, or even to find the exit. A property that is “on the other side of the block” can [...]

“The Death of E-Mail,” as this Slate article notes? No way! I still e-mail. I love e-mail. E-mail, don’t go away… (ok, yeah, I’m being facetious. Just a tad; darn teenagers think they rule the world with fads and dropping e-mail for Facebook and MySpace). Readings: just finished reading former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins’ [...]

Made it into Vegas early Wednesday. Perfect 3 point on-time landing with American Airlines.  New for Vegas this year – all of the car rental companies are now in a new Rent-A-Car mall. There is only one bus for all rental car companies that take you there. Literally, it is a mall in reverse – [...]

On a serious note: on Tuesday, I had attended the tail end of the NYS/NYC Bar Associations’ rally at 60 Centre Street in support of the Pakistani bar’s situation, the event of which I had noted in a previous blog post. I’m not exactly sure of the media’s coverage of City Bar’s approach (Sewell Chan [...]