Tag Archives: Travel & Places

Coolest. Hotel. Ever.

By alex | Published: 9/25/2003
Next time I’m in New York, I know where I’m staying: the Library Hotel, where the rooms are organized by the dewey decimal system, and about 6000 books are distributed appropriately. It would be hard to choose, but I think I’d go for 1200.003.
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NY Weekend

By alex | Published: 9/24/2003
Did the unheard of for an assistant professor and took a 3-day weekend (heck, taking a weekend is rare), to accompany Jamie to Manhattan where she had some meetings. I hadn’t had a chance to walk around New York in a very long time–long enough that the proportion of smokers on the street had been […]
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I am 1%

By alex | Published: 9/9/2003
So US Air is now going to be flagging 8% of their “risky” passengers and banning the 1% of their passengers who appear dangerous. I fly US Air next week… I hope. I wonder how likely it is that I am considered a terrorist risk (he says, looking up at a couple of “support your […]
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Fat liability waiver

By alex | Published: 9/6/2003
The 5 Spot, in Seattle, which I always thought to be overly self-consciously hip (and overpriced except for their heavenly mashed potatoes), now has a fat liability waiver that must be signed before consuming one of their deserts. Now we need one of these for grad school…
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