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AntonellaPavese.com is one of the four blogs nominated for the Philly Future Featured Blog Poll (many thanks to Karl and Albert for the nomination). The other three nominees are: Badminton Stamps, I’ve Made a Huge Tiny Mistake, and Literal Barrage. Vote for your favorite Philly blogs here until Sunday at 5:00 PM (to vote, you’ll need to register at Philly Future).
Good luck to everybody.
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Local Showcase: Welcome to Phillyville
Yesterday, Karl Martino wrote a great post discussing why “the web is flat” assumption is wrong (I’m especially grateful to Karl for the link to Clay Shirky’s 2003 article Powerlaws, Weblogs, and Inequality).
Today Karl makes a concrete proposal: let’s blogstorm local blogs that are featured every two weeks on Philly Future. Karl says that his blogstorm idea came from reading my interview with Wendy Piersall on similar initiatives such as the LinkedIn Blog Boosts and her own BlogJolt.
So, here it is: please visit Ruby Legs’s blog Welcome to Phillyville. In Phillyville, Ruby discusses Philly’s sport events, proposes to use the money we spend to maintain the U.S. nuclear arsenal to send 250,000 kids to college, and rants against racist stooges.
What else do you need? Go!!
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And the police arrived at the scene
It’s such a wonderful night for a walk. You could use a cigarette and you need air. Air. Close the door behind you (did you close it slowly, so nobody would hear? Or did you slam it, hoping somebody would stop you?) and just walk, one step and then another step. It’s not that hard.
And here you are, just outside the train station. Light a cigarette. Watch the breeze play with the smoke and feel it on your skin. For a moment you almost forget. But it’s just a moment then the pain is back, all of it, and it’s time.
Walk to the tracks, take another puff, breath it in fully. Step just in the middle of the tracks, sit down, slowly lower your head to the ground. It’s hard, but not that hard after all. Move just a little bit to get more comfortable, put your legs down, close your eyes. The tracks fit you nicely, like a bed where you can, finally, rest.
At 9:47PM of Friday, August 18, the R5 local to Thorndale leaves Saint David station for Wayne. Wayne is where I left my car before taking the train to Philadelphia this afternoon. Just 2 minutes and I will be there; I’ll get into the car, put my backpack in the back seat, and drive home. I’m exhausted, it has been a long hard week.
Forget Starbucks. You deserve a better experience.
It’s official: I am done with Starbucks. Until now, I occasionally visited Starbucks because they are easy to find, have a consistent quality, and you know what to expect. Is this enough to make the Starbucks experience a good customer experience?
One of the reasons people go to Stabucks is that they offer wireless internet. Are Starbucks cybercafes? In theory most of them are hotspots but in practices one has to pay for wireless. A lot. Unless you want to get a monthly and automatically renewed annual subscription with T-Mobile, you’ll have to pay $10 dollars for a day pass or $7 for the first hour of wireless connection. Most cybercafes offer unlimited wireless access for $2 and the fee is often waived if you purchase something.
At Starbucks, drinks and food are good, but they are also so pricey that you would expect your espresso to walk on water, tell you funny jokes, and take your calls when you are out. They only provide paper cups, even when you want to drink your cappuccino on the premises (so much for the flavor and the sustainability). The Starbucks experience seems to assume that you are always on the run, rushing in and out in a cloud of dust (perhaps accurate for most of their customers, but so far from my idea of coffee shop experience).
Live 8 in Philadelphia
Scott and I went to Philadelphia to “watch” Live 8 (it was mostly listening). A lot of people, hot but very nice weather, and the desperate search for good viewing places.
Live 8 in Philadelphia - Crowd
Live 8 in Philadelphia - Tree climbers
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Fireflies
Summer night. The yard shines with fireflies. It was a relaxing week-end like I haven’t spent in a long time. Guilt over mid-year appraisals yet to finish. Just remember to breathe.
Lightning over West Norriton
Tonight we had a lightning storm and Scott convinced me to get my camera and to take pictures of the storm from the sunroom. He had also set up a tent just in case I wanted to do some sunroom camping. So, I took this picture lying in the tent in the sunroom.
Eddie is the best
I visited Eddie’s site today and found that he listed my site among his “I really like these peole” list of links. But he did much more. He added this comment:
Antonella is one of my favorite people I know. She’s also one of the smartest.
Hey, if this is not support I don’t what is. Thank you, Eddie, I love you back. Eddie is one of the nicest, supportive, and creative people I know. Here it is. You deserve it, Eddie.
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