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Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Amazingly good dinner at Bayonna

Quail salad, rabbit, lamb.
At base, Southern, but done in a wonderful California way. The best meal we had in New Orleans.

Wine: Chorey-Cote-de-Beaune 2001, domaine tollot beaut. like calif pinot noire

Yesterday we ate at K Pauls, the original populizer of Cajan food back in the 80's. Also a very good meal.

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Notes while visiting the Ogden Museam of Southern Art

George dureau, male figures, satyrs

gerald cannon, google image search

evelyn witherspoon, portraits

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Monday, November 22, 2004

Loft 523 Design

Agape Spoon tub. Modern fan co. Vola bathroom accessories. Fortuny lamp.

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Dramatic events in the middle of the night

A blaring alarm roused us, hearts a pounding, from a deep sleep at 2am. As soon as we realized that it must be the fire alarm we hurridly threw on clothes and headed down the emergency stairs and joined the other guests in the lobby.

Two Fire Department vehicles came and after investigating for a bit they declared the all clear. Apparently it had been a false alarm.

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Sunday, November 21, 2004

Wonderful meal in Fins

Wine: La crema, Anderson Valley, 2001

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Daytime in le Vieux Carre

Back in our funky hotel room resting our tired feet after spending the day in the French Quarter. After a lovely brunch we wandered around listening to street musicians and exploring and exploring art galleries.

Despite being November it was quite warm and, of course very humid. During the hottest part of the early afternoon we took refuge in the Ursalines Convent, the oldest extant structure in the Mississippi valley, and took a tour. After a stop for refreshments we did a little more exploring and then took the streetcar back to the hotel.

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Brunch at Begue's.

Yummy. Great buffet with lots of variety.

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Arrived in New Orleans

Arrived in New Orleans yesterday for a short vacation before spending Thanksgiving in Texas.

We had a reservation in the International House hotel, but when we arrived we found we had been bumped ("upgraded" in their words) to their nearby sister hotel Loft 523. We are in an ultra-modernistic room with a concrete floor and spartan furniture. Ã like it.

After exploring the French Quarter a bit, we had dinner at 201.

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Thursday, November 18, 2004

Film Analysis

Yale's Film Analysis site is a great reference for understanding how films are made, along with lots of illustrative stills and some clips.

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Tuesday, November 09, 2004

C# Tutorial

It looks like it would be convenient to write some Windows device-access code in C#. This C# Tutorial looks like a good quick start.

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Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Nerves are racked

Man, it's nerve racking! electoral-vote.com is showing Kerry ahead by a single electoral vote. Meta-Analysis of State Polls - election.princeon.edu with somewhat more sophisticated statistical methods is predicting Kerry 311/Bush 227. The Iowa electronic market which had shown Bush ahead for the last few months is now closing towards dead even.

As a disenfranchised expatriate living in the U.S. it is frustrating not being able to vote. Though I did help the literacy student I am tutoring to register to vote, and I am going with her to the polls this afternoon to help guide her through the process. And as an extra bonus she is mostly going to vote the way I would (I was as objective in my tutoring, honest!)

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