Encounters-related Parries
September 2008
Encounter at Wetherspoone’s
As if those glass double doors belong to a wild saloon wherein one must repulse brigands just for a peaceful drink.
March 2008
Clash of the Midgets
My phone! One of the reasons I didn’t want an iPhone is that I’m invested in the T9 text entry method and like it. But while I do like the Nokia N95’s slider, it creates discomfort when entering text because all the weight in the phone is further up.
January 2008
The Small Adventures - Part 2
There in the empty restaurant by the water at Dieppe I had toast with foie gras, a carafe of red wine, a huge plate of mussels and chips, and finally a creme brulee. Somehow, though I’ve eaten in restaurants hundreds of times, I felt grown up sitting there alone on my travels.
December 2007
The Small Adventures
Of course we were late for the train. We enquired frantically among the taxis for one who would accept the two dogs — mine and Davide’s — and take us to Termini Station so I could catch the 11pm train to Milan that would be one third of our journey to Britain.
July 2007
Busy, Busy City
There’s a bridge in London’s St. James’s park where you can see Buckingham Palace at one end of the pond and Whitehall at the other, with the London Eye behind. Whitehall looked less a thumping fast haven for bureaucrats than a fairytale town, with the improbable slowly-moving Eye completing the fantasy.
March 2007
Our Vagaboncy Neighborhood
A South African fellow was hammering away today at the newly-opened Beach House Cafe on Kensington Gardens, which which we share a courtyard.
November 2003
White-collar Israeli Team Lunch
A faint pall of misery hangs over such meals. I have participated in such subtle horror shows when working at Amdocs, and so the whole thing was familiar.
Encounters-related Photos
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And on the Trail
Fri 17 Feb ’12
Guilty as charged: Shit White Guys Say… To Asian Girls.
Mon 8 Feb ’10