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lyon and las vegas, a study in contrast

After returning from France in mid-December and before heading out to Las Vegas early in January, I realized that all of the Anthony Bourdain shows from his stints at various networks were available on Max. We had done a cheap temporary Max subscription at some point earlier in the Fall. So I began going about […]

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paris, lyon, more paris

There we went again. Another trip to France. Again, a little damp. A little overcast. A little cool. Again, the rivers: the Seine, the Rhone, the Saone ran high. This time it was a flight through San Francisco to Charles de Gaulle. Paris for four days. A high speed train to Lyon for four. Another […]

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ed sheeran revisited, and other miscillany

Ah, sigh. It has been a long time since my last post. In the intervening weeks I’ve been back and forth between Park City and southern Nevada perhaps a half-a-dozen times. The streets in front of both places have been under construction related to civic projects for most of that time. We did catch the […]

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las vegas wtf, python and aws, adobe ai, and the lyon fête des lumières

A twenty nine dollar flight. An hour late in the planned time of departure which was good because the highway from Park City had been closed and I was also an hour late in arriving at the airport. I had been moved to the last row of seats and importantly from a middle seat to […]

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sweet home chicago, remoteness, the vice-president, and the informed flaneur

What a long strange trip it has been. The original plan was for a quick in-and-out for two people over three days to catch a ball game and use up some airline credits that were in need of being used up by a certain date. Simple right. Not so much. The trip had evolved. In […]