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Sprouted Coconuts

2009-07-04T03:55:04Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen at Trader Joe's with a Nokia N97 Fri 07.03.09 - Sprouted half of coconuts turning into coconut trees are a sight better than than Trader Joe's usual botanical fare of evil borchids (aka birthday orchids).... Continue reading "Sprouted Coconuts" » | Comments (0)

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Hanging Stained Glass

2009-07-03T04:39:04Z

Thurs 07.02.09 - Dan's latest installation. Photo taken by Ms. jen with a Nokia N97.... Continue reading "Hanging Stained Glass" » |

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Blogging: Is it Broadcasting or Publishing?

2009-07-03T01:14:10Z

Andrew Sullivan asserts in the below video interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival that blogging is broadcasting. I think it is both and it depends on the writer/blogger in question. Sullivan's style is that he broadcasts his piece as soon as possible from the time the idea or event happened and he broadcasts in his blog multiple times a day. Other bloggers, such as Geoff Manaugh of BLDBLG, publish a few times a week or once a day, in a longer, edited essay form - I would consider this publishing the blog post or some folks might call the longer,... Continue reading "Blogging: Is it Broadcasting or Publishing?" » | Comments (0)

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Garden Overgrown After 2.5 Weeks Away

2009-07-02T04:33:19Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95.... Continue reading "Garden Overgrown After 2.5 Weeks Away" » | Comments (1)

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After Much Trial and Tribulation, The Nokia N97, It Has Arrived

2009-07-02T04:04:12Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95.... Continue reading "After Much Trial and Tribulation, The Nokia N97, It Has Arrived" » | Comments (0)

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Home Sweet Home

2009-07-01T04:50:58Z

I am now officially home, exhausted to the point of nearly comatose. I have many thoughts but I want to sleep. Blogging tomorrow & Thursday to catch up, now that I am back on good fast, reliable wifi/internet. I took a cool photo as we fly over Labrador, just as the plane crossed over into North America, but I can't find it on my phone to post. Glad to be home. Bizarrely, Los Angeles is cooler in temperature than London by some.... Continue reading "Home Sweet Home" » | Comments (0)

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Departing London...

2009-06-30T10:31:35Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95. Tue 06.30.09 - Fare thee well, London-town.... Continue reading "Departing London..." » | Comments (0)

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Dan Rubin's Spectacular Hasselblad

2009-06-29T22:51:44Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95. Mon 06.29.09 - Speaking of Carl Zeiss lens's, Dan Rubin brought his lovely eBay steal of a Hasselblad with him to my last night in London meet up at the Phoenix Artist Club. And the Hasselblad had a Carl Zeiss lens on it. Everyone at the table was very excited when Dan brought the Hasselblad out of his bag. Yes, photo geeks we are. All too true.... Continue reading "Dan Rubin's Spectacular Hasselblad" » | Comments (2)

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The Gherkin and Tower Bridge

2009-06-29T22:48:54Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95. Mon 06.29.09 - As I was walking back to the Tower Hill Tube station after visiting Steve and Lobelia Lawson at their house barge on the Thames near the Design Museum, I saw The Gherkin, the glass skyscraper euphemistically named after a pickle rather than a phallic symbol, framed by the Tower Bridge. I was in a rush to not be late to meet up with folks at the Phoenix Club, but I stopped nonetheless to catch this photo.... Continue reading "The Gherkin and Tower Bridge" » | Comments (0)

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Tug on Dry Dock Boat

2009-06-29T22:46:52Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95. Mon 06.29.09 - A small tug boat on a barge dry dock in the Thames River, moored to a wharf on the Southbank near the Design Museum. I was visiting Steve & Lobelia Lawson when I spied this marvelous approach to boat repair.... Continue reading "Tug on Dry Dock Boat" » | Comments (0)

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Cam Displaying Her New Kinder Egg Jewellery

2009-06-28T21:58:13Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95. Sun 06.28.09 - Much fun was had by all at the post-birthday BBQ for Ms. Vikki Chowney that Camilla Blackett held at her fabulous loft flat at the Church in Camden. This photo was taken after a flat of Kinder Eggs and a fifth of Jose Cuervo tequila was procured. The chocolate exterior's of the kinder eggs were used as shot chocolates for the tequila. It was later determined by the testers that rum worked better in the kinder eggs than tequila, as rum is more favorable to milk and white... Continue reading "Cam Displaying Her New Kinder Egg Jewellery" » | Comments (0)

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BBQ'ing the Rain

2009-06-28T21:49:19Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95. Sun 06.28.09 - Vikki Chowney and James Whatley display the best of English summer BBQing weather... ;oD... Continue reading "BBQ'ing the Rain" » | Comments (0)

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Leigh and Jon

2009-06-27T23:14:31Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95. Sat 06.27.09 - Saturday was a big delight. I took the train from London Paddington out to Oxfordshire to hang out with Family Hicks. We had a nice lunch in their backyard, I got to meet Tufts and Tom Tom the new guinea pigs, and then we went out to Chipping Norton for Mantha's 8th birthday musical theatre adventure. Upon return to Chez Hicks, the little ones had tea then went to bed. Leigh and I procured beverages and very good Chinese to go food, friends dropped in, and then karaoke... Continue reading "Leigh and Jon" » | Comments (0)

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Photos from From a Friday Night at the John Snow Pub, Broadwick St., Soho

2009-06-26T23:56:22Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95. Fri 06.26.09 - After dinner at Busaba Eathai on Wardour St, we walked over to Broadwick St. to get a photo in front of the cholera water pump (see "Ghost Map") and then to have drinks at the John Snow Pub. It was good fun and Dan Rubin brought his bag of camera fun, which included a Fuji polaroid style camera that at the very end of the night, we took lots of photos with. More like all the ladies took photos with Jason Santa Maria (in the red shirt) and... Continue reading "Photos from From a Friday Night at the John Snow Pub, Broadwick St., Soho" » | Comments (0)

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Jon and Andy

2009-06-26T23:48:48Z

Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95. Fri 06.26.09 - Jon Hicks and Andy Budd enjoying the sunshine outside of the Southbank Royal (something) Hall near Waterloo Station, London. About a half hour later, or as the cat herding organizers turn, a group of us walked over the bridge, through Leicester Sq, up into Soho to go have dinner to the same delicious Thai restaurant that Andy took my Mom and I to in Nov of 2007 and whose name I have forgotten now. The said Thai place was able to seat 14 of us with no reservation... Continue reading "Jon and Andy" » | Comments (0)

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