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Manila to Hong Kong We wake up at 4:30 AM. Today my brother and I are travelling together via Cebu Pacific and United Airlines. He will get off at Chicago O’Hare while I continue onward to DC National. We are dropped off at NAIA around 6 AM. Check in at Cebu Pacific counter for first […]
I was at Raffy and Carla’s wedding last Saturday, and wore for the first time the Barong Tagalog that I will be wearing to my own wedding this June. As I settled into the thin piña fabric for the first time, I entertained a vision in my head of me in this barong, standing at […]
Washington DC National Airport (DCA) Manning the United Airlines check-in desk, a Ms. V. Hawkins. She is remarkably standoffish and catty towards me, especially when I tell her that I am connecting in Hong Kong to an airline with no ticketing agreement with United. I would like my bags checked forward to my Cebu Pacific […]
A few people have been arriving at my old entry on the DC Metro “flipbook” ads, looking for the newer “Target” ad between Gallery Place and Judiciary Square, on the Red Line. Here’s a video I took of it, a bit dark, but you can see a person floating in what seems to be a […]
Most people know Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his classic The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), but Amy introduced me to another of his famous works, Wind, Sand and Stars (originally Terre des Hommes in French), via an aged, yellowing volume which she had picked up from her church library. The book is a collected series […]
Update, 11/16/2006: See this comment from Pingdom on the issue. They claim they are tweaking the GIGRIB bot for better behavior and will soon have a working monitoring page on the other end of the referrer. (Preview of that here.) Update, 2007: Well, the public monitoring page never happened, and Pingdom’s spoofed referrers still forward […]
In the Beginning: Exhibit of ancient bibles from before the year 1000 AD at the Sackler Gallery. The earliest fragments at the start of the exhibit were what interested me most: a preserved scrap of Dead Sea Scroll, pieces of Coptic manuscripts of John and Matthew, parchments and papyrus and vellum with canonized and apocryphal […]
(IMG_8726.JPG, uploaded by brownpau.) Fall is here, and the leaves are turning colors, but it looks like this venerable old elm on the US Capitol grounds can’t wait for winter. (Botanic specialists, correct me if I’m wrong on that tree classification.)
So are you all enjoying the new LOST season so far? All pausing your video recorders and poring over screenshots of easter eggs and Googling left and right for clues? Me, I’m especially liking how LOST is able to maintain an aura of the unknown. I had feared that the increasing sci-fi-ness of the plot, […]
(Update: Latest FDA release now warns against all fresh spinach, not just bagged.) Spinach ties with broccoli for my most favoritest vegetable, but I had to throw out this unopened bag the very next day after buying it at Whole Foods, due to the whole E. coli scare. Thanks a lot, Natural Selection Foods! They’re […]