2006 Santa Ynez Valley Winery Cabernet Franc

This is a very dry wine, that paired very nicely with my salmon, asparagus and capers pasta a couple nights ago.

Ghostscript PDF Printer

Well, I've been mailing a lot of documents to all kinds of people, and I prefer to mail them in a "locked down" format so that no changes can be made for obvious reasons.

Business people like Word (the "smell" of LaTeX gives of an academic vibe whereby you might as well tattoo "sucker" on your forehead.)

Enter the Ghostscript PDF printer.

Like all free software, it's a pain in the ass to set up but once you do, it works like a charm.

Elegy

I had read good reviews of this, and so I went to watch it with my friend Jeff, who knows a ton about movies. I enjoyed it, though I can't put my finger on why, nor do I think it's going to be especially memorable. I didn't think it was particularly accurate, as I did with "Closer", nor deep, and it did get a little saccharine in places. But I especially loved the score, and I thought the photography was OK.

NYPL

At some point, I just dumped my entire list of "books I wanna read but don't want to buy" into the New York Public Library "bring-it-to-me" scheme.

The local branch is just a few blocks away.

Better yet, you can just keep dumping things into the queue, and they keep bringing them. Alas, the queue can only be 15 long, and you can only have 30 out at a time.

So what? I'm having the time of my life. I think I finished 2.5 books today.

Let's not forget the important part. They bring it to you!!!

2005 Fess Parker Syrah

OK, I'm totally going to some hell reserved for wine defilers, but the Fess Parker Syrah is better chilled than at room temp. Go figure.

The Wire

I'm totally addicted. I'm still watching Season One (don't own a TV.)

This is really good stuff, and those that know me know that I don't particularly care for TV (not having owned one for about 20 years at this point.)

I've tossed all the seasons onto my Netflix queue. (More when I resurface.)

The White Spider

My friend Ben lent me this classic mountaineering book by Heinrich Harrer, which chronicles successful and unsuccessful ascents of the North Face of the Eiger, in Switzerland. This is a truly fantastic book, razor sharp, brilliantly analytical, incredibly diplomatic, and distilled from what seem to be vast amounts of research into the subject as well as first-hand knowledge. I enjoyed it immensely, and would recommend it whether you're interested in mountaineering or not.