Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
European New Years Trip: Days 2
Went to church at the Augustinerkirche, which has a very good choir and orchestra (Shubert and Bruckner both conducted masses here). They did the Haydn Kleine Orgelsolomesse and three Bach pieces (which I found a bit odd in this bastion of the Counter-Reformation). Afterwards we walked up the street to the Albertina, where [...]
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
European New Years Trip: Days 2
Went to church at the Augustinerkirche, which has a very good choir and orchestra (Shubert and Bruckner both conducted masses here). They did the Haydn Kleine Orgelsolomesse and three Bach pieces (which I found a bit odd in this bastion of the Counter-Reformation). Afterwards we walked up the street to the Albertina, where [...]
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
European New Years Trip: Day 1 (supplemental)
I have remarked how people are always stopping me to ask directions when I’m travelling. It happened twice tonight, but once with a twist.
After dinner, we walked over to the Fraziskaner to see what music was going to be performed at the service Sunday morning. A couple of Spanish ladies stopped us and asked [...]
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
European New Year’s Trip: Day 1
All pics are available at my Picasa webpage.
Flight from Houston to London was outstanding. Transfer from Gatwick to Heathrow was in record time, and I hoped we might get on standby for the earlier flight to Vienna…but no such luck. In fact, our flight got delayed, so we didn’t get into Vienna until [...]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
More idiots
quoted in toto from Reason:
More on the Vang Khang Raid:
I’m quoted at length in this piece by St. Paul Pioneer-Press columnist Ruben Rosario on botched SWAT raids.
The police are in prime CYA form on the Khang raid:
Minneapolis police say they are not to blame for a mistake that sent a SWAT team into the wrong [...]
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
bunch of idiots
Why do folks think they can get away with staging attacks on themselves?
Staged College Hate Crimes::
Eugene links below to the story of the fake hate crime at Princeton. Is it just me, or are staged hate crimes on college campuses unusually common? My own university, George Washington, recently had such an episode. Swastikas [...]
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
Quite possibly, the perfect snack food
from BoingBoing: Peanuts banana-milk popcorn in Tokyo:
Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels: Snoopy and Lucy Banana Milk-flavored popcorn, for sale at the giant Peanuts store across the street from the Harajuku train station in Tokyo.
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Dinner at Sushi Seki
On the advice of Eb’s brother Reza, we had dinner after the show at Sushi Seki, 1143 1st Ave. We started with the Crunch Shrimp and Asparagus appetizer, which as excellent: shrimp and asparagus coated in little fried balls of ginger-flavored coating the size of sesame seeds. We then had a spicy tuna [...]