David Gessel

Achelo Syrah

Friday, May 29, 2009 

Excellent, rich, full of flavor and fruit.

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Posted at 10:37:03 GMT-0700

Category: NegativeReviewsTravel

Double Rainbow in Tuscany

Thursday, May 28, 2009 

There was a nice double rainbow after a major thunderstorm outside our apartment.

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Posted at 19:52:43 GMT-0700

Category: photoPlaces

Old Church

Thursday, May 28, 2009 

The ancient church in our town (of 4 discrete buildings) turns out to be more ancient than thought, built in the 10th century. It is in need of some stabilization.

Some architects were documenting the layout of the stones (a stone-by-stone process) for future restoration work and we had a chance to look around inside. This is a rare treat as it is only open once a year for mass.

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Swallows nest in the church walls and are very entertaining at dusk.

Posted at 19:33:49 GMT-0700

Category: photoPlaces

Happy Spider

Thursday, May 28, 2009 

I made this sweater for you, try it on?

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Posted at 19:06:07 GMT-0700

Category: FunnyGeopostphoto

BMW Welt.

Monday, May 25, 2009 

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Posted at 08:08:41 GMT-0700

Category: photoPlaces

Oops password error.

Monday, May 25, 2009 

Nothing could possahbly go wrong.

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Posted at 00:38:21 GMT-0700

Category: photoPlanes

United pod ports

Sunday, May 24, 2009 

The pod ports include usb (power only, I think), a network connection (!), a 110V outlet as well as the wacky proprietary iPod connector that they still don’t have the cable for.

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Posted at 13:26:42 GMT-0700

Category: Related Links

A week of tweets: 2009-05-24

Sunday, May 24, 2009 
  • Off to meetings in boston, toronto, and LA; back home in SF by weds. #
  • In cambridge now, stopped at home to get the laptops synced, now at Miracle of Science having beef skewers and fisherman’s ipa. #
  • #toscis just heard story of the unrepentant laptop user. #customerfail #
  • In canada for victoria day. Tim hortons is packed with empire celebrating canadians. Fireworks visible on landing at YYZ. #
  • Off to ORD from YYZ: lovely day here. Flight crew talking about customs hassle. Seems pretty easy to incurr a $10k fine by accident. #
  • Unusual approach at ORD. Pretty. http://twitpic.com/5ipkd #
  • Two rental hybrids in a row and then a mustang convertible in LA. Karma isn’t always a bitch. http://twitpic.com/5jiia #
  • Highly recommended: la cabana at lincoln and rose. Be there in 20 min. #
  • My white convertible mustang rental had <10 miles on it and blue tape still on the controls. A perfect over 40 rental. #
  • Returned rental mustang with 26 miles on it. Back to after 3 city tour. LA was pleasant enough. #
  • New unbelievably irritating and stupid TSA rule: all shoes out and on the belt. Because it wasn’t slow enough before. #securityfail Obama?! #
  • calcru: runtime went backwards strange… pfSense 1.2.2, seems like a 2006 vintage error. #
  • It was a genuine honor to celebrate Dr. Wehner’s doctorate with the doctor himself tonight. And some fine Scotch. #

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Posted at 02:11:00 GMT-0700

Category: Twitter

All Shoes On The Belt

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 

Ever since Richard Reid’s failed attempt to light his shoes on fire on a plane, we’ve all gotten used to being forced to pad through the airport in our stocking feet and hopefully not pick up any flesh eating fungus or anything.

But slowly the public became good at stripping down and unpacking their computers, and then their cameras, and then all their major electronics for the TSA staff that apparently has more trouble than the security in the rest of the world in differentiating benign from naughty in a packed bag.

The latest threat to national security: your gym shoes. So as of yesterday afternoon (19-May-09) we are all now obliged to unpack our shoes from our carry on luggage and put them on the belt separately. Too bad you just bought that new TSA compliant computer bag as it is now obsolete.

I suspect lines were getting a little short and we needed something else to confuse us and make air travel less efficient because otherwise the terrorists would win.

Posted at 19:52:20 GMT-0700

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Monitor fail

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 

Uh oh. Don’t poke the schedule!

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Posted at 17:36:45 GMT-0700

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