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Vernazza → Venice

From my vacation notebook from last year...

07:00 Repack Bags
09:30 Withdraw €60+
09:45 Check-out of Hotel
10:27 Leave Vernazza
10:55 Leave Monterosso
13:55 Arrive Milan
14:35 Depart Milan
17:10 Arrive Venice

Naturally, the Cinque Terre trains went off the rails (metaphorically and possibly literally) and we wound up leaving Monterosso much later than we expected but (for reasons that are still unclear to me) we got to Venice in plenty of time to get completely lost and still find our hotel before dark.

Avatar

I'm looking forward to seeing Avatar this afternoon with the gang from the office. I'll finally be able to read the community site without worrying about spoilers! :)

QuickPix 2009

All the fancy one-off icons from the Iconfactory this year are now all available again. Includes "Unicorn Tears", one of my favorites. Go get it!

Very Thin Ice

Ugh, I can't deal with these long Daily Show vacations. Thank goodness Auto-Tune the News #8 is out! :)

Related:

• Smule's "I Am T-Pain" iPhone App
• Episode 2 on Piano
• Episode 6 on Piano

(Most of this post is via Andy Baio.)

Previously.

Auto-Tune the News

I know I'm months and months behind the curve on this one but I just got around to seeing this and it's fantastic. It's not quite Ze's "The Show" (Best. Year of the Internet. Ever.) but it's extremely creative and damn funny.

Here are links to all seven episodes on YouTube:

1. March Madness. Economic woes. Pentagon budget cuts.
2. Pirates. Drugs. Gay marriage.
3. Cuba. Afghan friendship. Two-party woes.
4. Spa regulation. Serbians. Sotomayor.
5. Lettuce regulation. American blessings.
6. Michael Jackson. Drugs. Palin.
7. Texting. Rhyming. Pat Buchanan fail.

I can't wait to see the next one. :)

Bentos for Penelope

As far as I was concerned, making bento lunches for Penelope was more about arts & crafts than cooking; it was something that I could get excited about. More importantly, it was something that really forced me to think about the contents of her lunch. Sure, I could still give her a slice of pizza, but if I dressed it up with broccoli florets, it suddenly had nutritional value.

via Nested

Nice. :)

Timmy!

Timmy: Can we please continue to talk about Timmy in the 3rd person? Timmy likes to boost Timmy’s ego by talking about Timmy that way.

Jonathan: Jonathan would be happy to neglect the use of pronouns for the duration of this conversation.

Timmy: Jonathan and Timmy shall get along just fine.

Hilarious. (Via Ginevra)

Mini Golf

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