A friend sent me a link to these earrings, and thought that Jenny might enjoy them: My reply email is guaranteed to be funny for one person on this planet: me. Nice. I appreciated the pun. Jenny didn’t get it at first, but after a 90 minute PowerPoint deck on internet history, starting with ARPAnet, [...]
Today’s piece of Digg-fodder is “Six ways to make a good email signature”. ORLY? The very first tip is: 1. Keep it short. Seven lines is good. Mine happens to be 8, because I also include a row of “=” to separate it from my text. Wow, way to hand out completely incorrect advice by [...]
Jenny and I went and looked at all the churches in Strasbourg so that you don’t have to. Yes, they’re beautiful, but after a while, you just get worn out.
I found the markets in Europe to be delightful and delicious. Above are some delicious sausages that we saw in an outdoor market in France. There were outdoor markets in almost every city we visited, and for the most part, they weren’t very touristy; that is, they were by and for locals. Note to self [...]
“saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world”, Lucerne, Switzerland. From the wikipedia article on Lucerne: Bertel Thorvaldsen’s famous carving of a dying lion (the Lion Monument, or Löwendenkmal) is found in a small park just off Lowenplatz. The carving commemorates the hundreds of Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the [...]
carnation, Staubbach Falls, Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland We spent a few days in Lauterbrunnen, which is in the Jungfrau region, close to Interlaken. The place was beautiful — we think. Unfortunately for us, it was cloudy most of the time, and there was even a freak snowstorm that dumped 3 inches, and closed the roads in and [...]
snail, Saanen, Switzerland So one of the debates I kept having with myself during the trip was whether the rental car was worth it, or if we should have done what most normal people would have done and ridden the trains instead. The reason we originally decided on the car was a combination of enhanced [...]
The other thing we did while in Nice was to pop over to Cannes during the 60th anniversary of the famous film festival. We only wanted to stay for a little while to experience the zeitgeist, and so we weren’t planning on camping out near hotel entrances just for celebrity watching, but we got “lucky” [...]
Looking down on the Plage la Mala beach, near Monaco. We spent an afternoon lazing around on this beautiful beach in