Friday, July 21, 2006
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Tourist Remover
At first I thought this would be good, especially on trips to Santa Fe, but I find out it’s just for photos. Pretty cool, though, and free.
Remove moving objects such as tourists or passing cars from your photos. Take multiple photos from the same scene and the «Tourist Remover» blends them into a composite photo without any interfering elements.
Chasing the Perfect Taco Up the California Coast
A travel article from The New York Times just in time for lunch.
I’VE never met a taco I didn’t like. Weaned on Taco Bell and my Lebanese mother’s Old El Paso tacos, I’m not terrifically choosy. High-end, low-end, commercial, authentic — even a bad taco is better than no taco.
But things change. Deep, obsessive love begets connoisseurship, and a more refined understanding is sought. The plan? A trip along Highway 1, between Los Angeles and San Francisco — among the most beautiful stretches of road in the country, and possibly the hottest taco crawl outside of Mexico. My boyfriend, Taylor Umlauf, will take the wheel and help sample the goods — generous spirit that he is — with hours between to soak in the scenery. The hum and buzz of 380 miles of winding open road await — heady visions of rustic farm towns unfolding into sun-bleached fishing villages, the sun, the salt, the fresh California air. This will be our storied and scenic backdrop. But our raison d’être? Five days, 28 taquerias, 49 tacos.
And this, The Great Taco Hunt, “A guide to the Los Angeles taco scene,” just to demonstrate the greatness of the internets.
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Filed under Food, Drink & Health and Places and Travel on July 21, 2006
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Vacation Packing: A Pocketful of Musical Gems
Stephen Holden suggests some wonderful “private music” for your summer iPod.
music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all,
but you are the music
While the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”
Ernest Hemingway
… was born on this date in 1899. He died a few weeks before his 62nd birthday in 1961.
Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
The New York Times has an extraordinary wealth of reviews, articles, interviews and other material collected on Hemingway.
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Filed under Birthdays and Books & Writers on July 21, 2006
It’s the birthday
… of jazz pianist Billy Taylor. He’s 85.
… of Janet Reno, the first woman attorney general of the United States. She is 68.
… of actor Edward Herrmann. He is 63.
… of Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau. He’s 58.
… of Mork. Robin Williams is 55. Williams has been nominated for the best actor Oscar three times without winning. He did win the best supporting actor Oscar for Good Will Hunting.
… of Jon Lovitz. He’s 49. Fresh!
