a thousand opinions would still be too few.

my mother, A and i recently went to nougatine + enjoyed it. with rave reviews, we recommended it to my father.  apparently strangers’ opinions matter more.

subject: some one named Sharon did not like her meal at Noougatine*

body: what do you think of her review?

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&source=hp&oq=&gs_rfai=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=nougatine&fb=1&gl=us&hq=nougatine&hnear=New+York,+NY&cid=14313268200859985662&dtab=2&pcsi=14313268200859985662,1&ei=ONGgS9HVJIbSM4zDpLAM&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQqgUwAA

*all spelling + grammatical errors are representative of the initial e-mail

bored papa

whenever my father goes to a birthday of my mother’s friend, he’s terribly bored. the crowd is typically all russian-speaking, the food all russian and the entertainment – you guessed it: russian too.  born in pennsylvania, he tries to fit in but instead zones out.  thanks to apple! he can now send me photos as often as he likes in order to ease his boredom. here’s a sampling from last night’s

google voice

my dad’s best friend, D, left him this VM :
hello, it’s me. just calling you back. i was at the range, i wasn’t able to answer your phone call.  bye bye

which google voice translated as:
hello, it’s, maybe just calling you back. i was looking rentals mammograms your couple bye bye.

- – - – they thought it’d be fun to explore this word sequence – - – -

new VM:

i was looking rental mamagrams, your couple. bye bye

and translation:

i was looking rental, my, my question. your couple 55.

ah. google fail. <D does have a thick philadelphia accent>

fame in pennsylvania

we recently traveled to peru together.  i hiked the inka trail, he did not.

subject: hi

body: Tonight at a medical society meeting, I learned something interesting  – there’s a doctor I know in town, he’s a urologist, Jonathan Bingham, well I just learned that his father is Hiram Bingham – who discovered MP
http://www.labyrinthina.com/bingham.htm

follow up email: correction, his grandfather

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i’m sure my mother corrected him making him feel like a fool for lack of timeframe knowledge.

Lunch in San Francisco – Chapter III

Had lunch at Google, San Francisco office – the first and last photos are views from the window while eating lunch -

boring lunch, crab legs, lobster salad, mussels, peperoni pizza – wow, does Google need  a pediatrician?