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Entries from May 2003

Green Spring of Tunnel

May 9th, 2003 · No Comments

As I guide the Honda around broad curves and descend into my nieghborhood, I just can’t help feeling the love that is the ATL.
Despite the fact that spring makes me feel like a violent, silent tornado is twisting my sinuses like so many ethernet cables in a box, sliding through these streets is a pleasure. [...]

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Tags: Atlanta

He’s Tough, But…

May 8th, 2003 · 1 Comment

So Roger Moore may be a trooper:

“Towards the end of act two at the matinee today, Roger Moore fainted on stage. After a break of about 10 minutes, the show continued and Mr. Moore finished the performance. After the show, he went to be checked out by doctors,” said a statement released by the theater. [...]

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Tags: Nostalgia

Elucidating the Inexplicable Tricks of The MARTA

May 8th, 2003 · 4 Comments

Atlanta’s MARTA trains only have three tricks.
MARTA is not complicated. And while the network is not very expansive, and the fare schedule (there is only one fare price, regardless of how far one rides) is unbelievably stupid, MARTA does a great job of getting you where you’re going, so long as MARTA goes to [...]

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Tags: Atlanta

June 16, 1904

May 7th, 2003 · 7 Comments

Anyone up for any of these events this year? If not, we need to find something good to celebrate Bloomsday in Atlanta or domestic this year.
Much like “stately, plump Buck Mulligan”, we would relish the pints, and like our man Leopold Bloom, we would take great delight in devouring the innards of beasts.

Photos from some [...]

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Tags: Literature · Travel

You Can’t Even Have 3 Groschen, So What’s All This About the 3-Penny Opera?

May 1st, 2003 · 4 Comments

The Three Penny Opera Incident

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Tags: Austria · Funny! · Vienna

April Mosaic

May 1st, 2003 · 2 Comments

April’s Photo Mosaic is there.

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Tags: Photo Mosaic

Fluent in Bullshit

May 1st, 2003 · 3 Comments

Today I spent one hour on a conference call, and I barely understood what anybody said. It was as if somebody was speaking Dutch to me; I understood about every third word.
Just as Dutch sound like German flipped on 45, a bunch of Prime Integrators and CIOs sounds like normal people speaking completely in [...]

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Tags: Work

Hang Ten!

May 1st, 2003 · 1 Comment

In response to Trav, I present a couple photos taken from the location of my family’s nascent surf camp in Zihuatenejo.”
When y’all get the hang of it, come visit my sister and Robby down South of the Border for some real surfing.
And congrats to my sister and Rob (her husband, AKA El Diablo) for the [...]

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Tags: Travel