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  • Drive by beauty

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    I love camera phones because even though I carry a dSLR whereever I go there are still so many times when I see something heartachingly beautiful. Here I was driving madly to do Christmas shopping. Headed to feathered friends and I turn and see this sunset. Blurry going 100kph but…

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  • Songs

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    Two years ago a dear friend gave me the gift of really listening to lyrics. In my current mood I’ve been listening to lots of Fort Minor, Lifehouse, Linkin Park and Beyonce. I love the fact that Fort Minor is really Mike of Linkin Park fame doing rap. So here…

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  • Geek street

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    While I love the iPhone. I have to say some of it’s quirks are really annoying. Here’s my list. If anyone can find work arounds let me know. 1. Activesync doesn’t work in airplane mode! Man ur on an airplane reading your exchange mail and it won’t delete messages. Just…

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  • National geographic adventurer

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    Wow national geographic has certainly branches out. Love reading third latest guide to adventure travel in their november issue. Some notes via wordpress on iPhone: Arunachel Pradeah India. Whitewater kayaking in real wilderness Mont Bell is an amazing lightweight sweater made of goose down packs down to. 20cm long and…

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  • Home Theater Reviews…

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    Someone was asking about components for home theater. Man, there was lots of things going on. “Sim2 HT5000”:http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=799229 is an amazing 3-DLP projector. Expensive though. 3800 lumens and 6000:1. Most folks are worried about the 50% drop in light output as the lamp ages. The Sim2 HT3000 is 1-chip 1080p…

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  • More Readings

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    I haven’t really read *anything* in a year. Not the newspapers, too depressing. Not my usual science and non-fiction, too escapist. And lately, not even the web, really escapist. But lately, I’ve had some time to really consider things. Read “Gods in Everyman”:http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC16/Bolen.htm and “Goddesses in Everywoman”:http://www.intuition.org/txt/bolen.htm, “Iron John”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_John_(book), “Narcissism:…

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  • Chile

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    Well after hearing about the “Atacama”:http://www.cntraveller.com/Guides/Chile/Atacama_Desert/ desert from Quantum of Solace and also seeing Easter Island is out there, what an interesting spot plus the currency has fallen 20% vs. the USD. * “Explora Rapa Nui”:http://www.explora.com/rapa-nui_thehotel.php. If you want to see the famous Easter Island, its five hours from Santiego,…

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  • Next trip to Beijing or NYC

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    There are the usual suspects and then there is the “Hot List”:http://www.cntraveller.com/Special_Features/The_Hot_List_2008/ which are new stylish hotels that Conde Naste has found. Here are some: Well there are the usual hotels like the Grand Hyatt (the pool!) or the harder to find Beijing Shangri-la, but Conde Naste found an interesting…

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  • So where can you go…

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    Well, given these destinations, “Travel & Leisure” has their 500 top hotels as well as “Conde Naste Traveler Gold List”:http://www.cntraveller.com/GoldList/2008/, so what’s in these areas. In “Anzac and the South Pacific”:http://www.travelandleisure.com/tl500/2008/region/australia-newzealand-southpacific, we have some obvious ones: In Australia, * “Langham Hotel”:http://www.travelandleisure.com/tl500/2008/hotel/langham-hotel-melbourne in Melbourne. It is normally a high A$500, which…

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  • Travel by Exchange Rates

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    Well, another way to think about travel occurred to me while I was in Australia. Where an incredible hotel room that costs A$500 is not more like A$300 because of the Exchange rate shifts, so how about going to XE.com and finding out what countries have dropped the most compared…

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