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Gone Fishing, originally uploaded by Kevglobal.
Yay! Suw and I have been waiting all summer for this. We’re heading off for the first half of September. Suw’s parents need to meet my parents before the wedding. (Thought that might be a good thing.) I’m looking forward to being back in the Chicago area after a long absence – three years.
Then Suw and I are heading off to Denver, Boulder and Rocky Mountain National Park. I’m going to take her up into the mountains for a few days. Sherpa Kev will be lugging most of the gear, but I’m hoping that Suw gets/develops a taste for the Rockies. Truly a beautiful part of the world.
I’ll have lots of pictures and stories when I get back.
Suw, queen of Buffy the Lecture Room, originally uploaded by Kevglobal.
Suw and I are up in the Edinburgh at the TV Un-festival, organised by Ian and the folks at BBC Backstage. Suw is hosting the conversations in the main lecture hall. I’m blogging or the Guardian and over at Strange Attractor.
It’s great to be back in Edinburgh. I first visited the city two years ago with my favourite Scottish export on a short tour of Glasgow, Loch Lomond and a short day trip to Edinburgh. I’m looking forward to having a few more days to explore the city.
I got so engrossed with blogging that I forgot to shave. “Meow, meow, meow, I’m a were-cat.”
(I really can explain those references without putting it down to pharmacological additives to my diet. Really more to do with Suw’s LOLcat addiction and my own odd radio listening habits as a teenager.)
Wow, the new iMac is shiny, and I don’t just mean the screen. Bobbie ran it through its paces, and it’s one fast machine. The new iMovie is quite a nice piece of software as well. It just cuts through video, and it’s a breeze doing quick edits. I’d love to have a play with the new Keynote as well after seeing it put through its paces last week at X|Media|Lab in Melbourne.
But it’s one nice piece of kit both in form and in function. I definitely think Apple has produced one the best iMacs yet.
I couldn’t believe that they had a bottle of Penfolds signature wine, Grange, at duty free at Changi Airport in Singapore. The bottles were even numbered like original copies of the Beatle’s white album. Now, the bottle would set you back S$550, or more than US$360. A little out of the drinks budget this month. Ahem.
But top traveller tip. They had an impressive selection of Australian and French wines. From Australia, they had Rosemont’s Hill of Gold Shiraz and Penfolks Bin 707 Cab Sav.
The French wines were from premier appellations including Margaux, Pauillac and Pomerol. To put this in perspective, three of Bordeaux’s five premier cru chateaus are in Pauillac: Château Lafite-Rothschild, Château Latour, and Château Mouton-Rothschild. They didn’t have any premier cru on offer, but I’m not surprised those are pricey.
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Tags: wine, penfolds, australia, france, Changi Airport, Singapore
I’m in Singapore for a day on my way to Australia where I’ve got a speaking gig at X|Media|Lab Melbourne. I’m meeting with the follks behind STOMP – Singapore Times Online Mobile Print – an excellent mobile community site. They took me to this brilliant Chinese restaurant in a mall nearby. In the lobby, there were these large tanks with several types of fish. They looked like grouper to me, but I am hardly a fish expert.
They also had some lobster in tanks. I don’t know if customers could choose their own fish or if they were just on display. The restaurant was impressive, and we ate in a small private room with a server who kept our cups full of jasmine tea. They also had quite an extensive choice of wine.
I needed the dinner after British Airways lost my luggage on the flight from Heathrow. I’m up early now to go out and buy some clothes to carry me through the day. Hopefully, I’ll be reunited with my luggage tomorrow when I fly to Melbourne.
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Tags: fish, Chinese restaurant, Singapore
Suw and I were shopping recently for greeting cards at a stationery store we really like in Covent Garden, when I saw this unfortunate bit of juxaposition. Great sympathy on the occasion of your civil ceremony? What happened? Did the groom bolt at the altar? Or did the bride have problems ala Sixteen Candles? Did the families fight? Or was the wedding party placing bets on how long the marriage would last, with the longest bet coming in at a scant eight months? (True story, but the reference has been kept oblique to protect the innocent. Unfortunatly, the families in said unhappy union were competing to see who could spend more and in the process bought $150,000 of discord.) Get well soon after your bout of salmonella from the prawn cocktail at your reception?
Well, hopefully someone at the store will give the civil ceremony and sympathy cards their own rack space. It would be a shame to start off your civil ceremony on such a sour note.
Tags: greetingcards, signage, faux pax
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