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Huckleberry serenaded me for my birthday. Figures that a showboat like him would play a Les Paul.
In my e-mail inbox, I saw a new item: "FedEx Shipment Notification."
Spam? I wondered.
Spam? I wondered.
But no:
T. Kubo of Onkyousa sent Stephen Mejias of Stereophile 1 FedEx Ground package(s).Yes!
Thanks for the kind birthday messages, everybody. I had a great day. Joan & I went to the Frick Collection to gaze at our favorite Vermeers, Franz Hals, and J.M.W. Turners, not to mention checking out a comprehensive display of the New Testament drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, which were completely new to me.
We spent the rest of the day prowling the upper East Side thrift shops, winding up at the Housing Works Used Book Cafe, where I scored a first edition of Wilson Follett's 1966 Modern English Usage for $6.
We ended the day at our favorite "splurge" restaurant, Henry's…
If you think you know how, it's probably because you don't have problem feet. I have wide feet, which makes it impossible to get comfortable bicycling shoes—which are mostly made on narrow Italian lasts. The wide foot lacing solution on the Dick's Sporting Goods site has been a godsend. I'm sure the other lacing fixes work equally well.
David Halberstam remembers an era when the press wasn't the administration's lapdog. What a great piece of writing.
I got a new cell phone recently and have been learning how to take pictures with the camera that's (almost) always with me. No, a phone isn't a very good camera, but the pictures can be surprisingly good if you work within your tool's limitations.
What I didn't do, however, is ask myself the most basic question: How do these things work? Al-Manazir supplies the answer in an on-going series.
WIRED offers their list of "Best Gadgets and Gizmos on the Planet" in their annual TEST issue, on stands now. But I didn't buy it. Instead, I swiped my girlfriend's copy. While she was mostly interested in reading more great things about her handy-dandy Motorola Q, I, of course, flipped right to the home audio section.
"Homework," I told her.
Five minutes in, I was pissed. A "headphones" section without the AKG K701s? Those things are radical. Where they at? A "receivers" section without the Outlaw RR2150? Come on. You'd think the $600 beauty would be right up WIRED's…
On our morning rides, Jeff Wong and I pass one point that has recently been covered with geese resting on their migration south. We've been wondering why here? and Why a "V"?
Well, one out of two ain't bad.