It is day three in our trip to France and today we’ve had a roller-coaster ride with very low lows and very high highs. On the highs, we went to the highest point of Paris for a sensational view of the city. On the lows, I misplaced Lilia and the video camera. I found Lilia, but not the camera.
After a rough night adjusting ( wide awake at 5am, then slept til 3pm) to our new time here in Paris we ventured out to the Musée d’Orsay. Due to our late start, we skimmed through this museum in a couple of hours but we got to see a good portion of it. This museum hosts impressionists like Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. I was overwhelmed from the amount of work hosted here, I can’t imagine how I will feel when visiting the Louvre. The following are the pictures we took at the Museum. After that we went to the Eifflel Tower, a monument that is much more impressive in person than in pictures. But our battery had run out by then. I know, the gods of gadgetry are not smiling on me on this trip.
We’re finally in Paris. And after much debating the PowerBook came with us too. Here I am trying to find our Hotel in the Map. We ended up picking La Manufacture, a little hotel in a very central area surrounded by lots of cafés and bistros and right next to a subway stop.
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Tomorrow noon we’re off to Paris! Lilia is persuading me to leave back my laptop to fully enjoy the trip and surrender myself to the word V A C A T I O N. Hum…. Decisions, decisions. It seems like such a strange concept to depart from such a personal item to me. I am considering it, but fighting it.
On the subject of Paris though, if any of you guys have any killer spots to eat or visit please let me know because it is our first time there. Also, this is a last minute trip. In fact, it is so last minute that the evening before the trip I’m still trying to find a hotel. It’s got to be something special. It’s got to be unique. It’s got to be affordable. And did I mention we leave tomorrow?
If you live in the area, we would love a local connection in Paris. We’ll be going down to Bordeaux for a few days but most of the time we’ll spend in Paris.
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This December is a very special one because my wife and I will be celebrating our 10th year anniversary which in LA counts as double. To celebrate we managed to book some last minute tickets to Paris in France, my wife’s dream vacation. She’s a happy camper right now and she’s as excited as a kid in a candy bar. But my first thought after getting the tickets was, this is going to be a long trip and our laptop batteries will not last. And even though the airlines let you select your airplane seats online there’s no information of wether it has a power plug or not. Power plugs are rare and few among coach seats and I need to be able to do some work and watch some movies. This is where Seat Guru comes in. As you can see by the screen shot above, Seat Guru lets you view which seats have power outlets and weather or not there are “in seat” tv screens. All this according to the specific plane model. They have a huge database of planes organized by airlines. We where able to move our non powered seats to seats that will hopefully give us some powerbook juice. All we need now is one of those fancy adapters and we’re set. Don’t you just love the web?
Link: seatguru.com
Check out these PHP scripts that access the iTunes Music Store to grab the Album Art in all it’s 600×600px glory. Also, Benjamin Morin has posted on his blog a set of scripts (script only not demo) to access the free videos like trailers and music videos from the iTunes Music store.
After a rough start last week, my fortunes turned sweet when I received in the mail a Starbucks Barista Espresso Machine from my friends Steve and Deana Watson. They where about to sell it on eBay but instead sent it to me as gift. So I wanted to publicly say THANK YOU. YOU HAVE BLESSED ME BEYOND WORDS. I previously owned a Briel. An entry level machine that makes decent espresso but, it becomes increasingly frustrating when making multiple cups. In fact it was such a pain that I usually ended up serving everybody but me because I just couldn’t go through one more serving. However, this new Barista machine rocks. You can immediately tell the difference in the quality of the materials used. The Portafilter is rock solid with a rubber handle. The shell is stainless steal. It is a very simple to use and makes Starbucks quality lattes with perfect crema and froth. And the best part is that it can make multiple cups without throwing a hissy fit like my old one. So I am happy about my new machine, I’ve made quite a lot of cups already and it is a delight to use. THANK YOU STEVE AND DEANA!
So how easy is it to be your own Starbucks Barista? Here’s the steps a latte requires.
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