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Comment on Right Now: New Apartment Edition by Right Now

Right Now — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:40:40 +0000

[...] stole this idea from Alison, a.k.a. Spinstah. Here’s what’s going on right [...]

Comment on Trip Diary: Seattle II by spinstah

spinstah — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:47:47 +0000

That’s true! I had so many places marked on my map. I knew I wouldn’t get to them all so I just tried to go with the flow, and whenever it was time to figure out what I wanted to do I went with my gut. If I wanted to sit and read at a cafe, I sat and read at a cafe. I figured, it’s vacation! It’s about me!

Comment on Friday Favorites by laura k

laura k — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:45:13 +0000

Ugh, I felt the same way with my Vanity Fair experience. It was a slog. There was so much unnecessary detail that totally took away from the actual story. Blech. So glad to finally be done with that one. Honestly, it’s not a truly terrible book and I found parts of it actually moving, but…a serious slog.

Comment on Trip Diary: Seattle II by Tracie

Tracie — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:47:32 +0000

I enjoy traveling by myself because of the freedom and quiet time to myself. Sometimes, though, I get overwhelmed if I can’t decide what to do, because I can’t pass the decision off to someone else!

Comment on Travel Diary: Seattle I by Trip Diary: Seattle II | Spinstah

Trip Diary: Seattle II | Spinstah — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:18:48 +0000

[...] I was at a hotel during the days I attended a conference out there, paid for by my employer, but you already know about that. For the vacation, I moved to an apartment in the southern part of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, [...]

Comment on NMC Horizon Connect Session: Howard Rheingold is Net Smart by What’s interesting today | Spinstah

What’s interesting today | Spinstah — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:34:30 +0000

[...] Collaboration, Crap Detection, and Network Awareness. I’ve got some notes from this that I’ve posted under separate cover, but if you’d rather just watch it yourself the recording is here, it uses Adobe Connect. I [...]

Comment on What's interesting today by Paul

Paul — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:43:30 +0000

re: SXSW you forgot that this year’s torrent of FREE mp3s is online! ~4.5 GB of free music how is that not interesting?

(Baltimore folks w/ poor internet (i.e. Comcast which hates torrents) comment here and I’ll bring you a DVD at happy hour)

Comment on My 5 Essential Cookbooks by Tracie

Tracie — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:42:03 +0000

I love the Betty Crocker, too. Kevin had one when I first met him, and I fussed over it so much that when his mom asked him for present ideas for me, he told her to get me the cookbook. Even though it was early in our relationship, his mom was like, “But then you’ll have two of them!” Ha, little did she know how many years I would use that book as a single gal before we got hitched. So, we did have two for awhile, but I got rid of one of them when we moved.

Comment on Travel Diary: Dallas by spinstah

spinstah — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:37:35 +0000

Austin is fabulous and I can’t wait to go back there someday. Foodwise I feel like I barely scratched the surface.

Comment on Travel Diary: Dallas by laura k

laura k — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:57:58 +0000

We had pretty much the same feelings about Dallas, and its dining options. One of the biggest surprises to me was that the hotel restaurants were varied and numerous, and were of a bit higher quality than I think is usual in hotel restaurants. I guess that’s what you have to do when there are few decent restaurants in a convention center area.

I had dinner at Sonny Bryan’s, which is apparently a chain of barbecue spots with varied reviews. But I thought it was well done. I tend to prefer pork to beef barbecue, but when in Texas…

I did manage to get out of the convention center area and head to Bread Winners Cafe in the West Village for lunch Monday. The neighborhood was not nearly as cool as I’d been lead to believe, but lunch was fantastic. I had a Cuban sandwich, very Texas-style with barbecue pulled pork. It was a highlight, and I only wish I had eaten less of it so I would have had room for dessert, since it all looked so tempting. But the sandwich was too good to ignore!

Overall, I wasn’t that impressed with Dallas, but then again, no one told me that I would be, so…I hope the next time I go to Texas, it’s Austin. I’ve heard that actually IS a town worth visiting.