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fat tire [jatp]
Posted in Statistics with tags amber beer, Belgian beer, Colorado, delivery vans, Fat Tire, jatp, microbrewery, New Belgium, New York city, NYC, street view on January 20, 2023 by xi'anbridge sampling [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags Battery Park, bridge, Brooklyn bridge, East River, jatp, Manhattan, mist, morning run, New York, New York city, November on November 18, 2022 by xi'an
double-parked [cover]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Running, Travel with tags art, beach, bicycle, biking, cover, Fort Tilden beach, New York city, Rockaways, summer, The New Yorker on August 24, 2022 by xi'anTierras Centro Americanas [journal of the NYC weekend]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags bagels, breakfast, climate change, Guatemaltec cuisine, Harvest Moon Brewery, Jamaica, JFK, Journal of the Plague Year, korean TV series, New York, New York city, Queen's, Rutgers University, science fiction, The New York Times, The New Yorker, tortilla, Trinity churchyard, young adult books on April 27, 2022 by xi'anUpon my arrival at JFK, Queens, Andrew took me to have unbelievable tortillas in this Guatemaltec restaurant, soft and yummy, almost like pancakes! Along with great food altogether. We also had a pleasant stroll walking through Queens’ lively Jamaica district. Including coming upon a just extinguished fire in a row of shops! On the opposite, I did not see much of New Brunswick, apart from walking by the Harvest Moon brewery where I got a beer (and a tee-shirt) on my earlier visit there.
Read Truthwitch, another disappointment in the series (of recent books), as the universe building could have been great (despite being heavily inspired from Western Europe geography and culture, and in particular of Venezia. Again, I presume I was missing the YA label when I first picked this book! Scenario is rather terrible, full of last second rescues, new and convenient forms of magical powers, while interactions about characters are artificial and predictable, definitely not recommended. (And there are five books in the series!)
Watched The Silent Sea a short Korean TV serie taking place mostly in a Korean infected base on the Moon. While trying to solve the water crisis on a drying Earth (looking red from the Moon). The ending is quite disappointing while the original idea was most appealing. The science (fiction) behind the story is however terrible. (E.g., never use guns in space! And why would astronauts rely on cheap, handheld, lamplights to explore dark tunnels?! And how can you hide stealthy visits to a Moon basis from Earth?! &tc.)