Archive for March, 2008
Upgrade
I’ve been on a bit of a Spring Break hiatus (thanks for SSW for holding down the fort). I’ve upgraded to WordPress version 2.5 on the back end, which is actually quite nice. Will make some changes to the template. In the interim, I’ve been doing the following:
Seen Rent - the musical (have seen the [...]
Posted: March 31st, 2008 under Brooklyn, Washington, D.C..
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Last Sunday of March 2008
Saturday night: taking off of the Brooklyn Restaurant Week list (but again, going off the restaurant week menu): Miriam, at the Court Street branch. Thumbs up. Food was quite good, ambiance nice, servers also nice. Recommended.
Sunday: the Final Four are established - all number ones - U of North Carolina; Memphis; UCLA; [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2008 under Brooklyn.
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Week’s End
Friday night - Brooklyn Restaurant Week - the siblings and I went to Taze, the Turkish restaurant on Montague St., formerly where Kapadokya was. We went off the restaurant week menu to try the other stuff on the menu, reasonably priced as it was. Tried some of the lamb - quite good, and [...]
Posted: March 29th, 2008 under Brooklyn.
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Wednesday into Thursday
A Q & A with writer Diane Wei Lang, who was a professor of business in the US and the UK and now lives in the UK - and has two mystery novels (setting Beijing) coming out. (interesting trend - Chinese mystery novelists - well, I know at least of Qiu Xiaolong anyway).
We [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2008 under Brooklyn, Manhattan.
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The Beginning and the Middle of the Last Week of March
As a follow up of the last time (I think, anyway) I posted on the rovers on Mars: NASA has to cut back on the rovers’ work, due to budget problems; looks like Spirit might have to be turned off for a few weeks of hibernation and Opportunity would have less work to do. [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2008 under Brooklyn.
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