Living off someone else then?
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Where's Steve??
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Yeah, I'm a kept man. No. I'm living off the fruits of my labor in a once overheated high-tech economy, and a fortuitous real estate market in the Boston area. But if there's a rich elderly lady out there who'd like to keep me, I'm taking applications.
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I'm now at the News Cafe on Ocean Drive (it's one of the institutions that started the South Beach revolution in the 80's). I'm chatting up my waitress, Svetlana (Sveta) who's from Minsk, Belarus. She came here as a co-op (a job through her school) in New Jersey two years ago and decided to come to a nicer place, so she's here in Miami. She speaks excellent English. Countries that are interested in the success of their economy make sure their students learn English. She is r-e-a-l-l-y nice. She wants to go to school here and get a business degree. After that, she's not sure exactly what she wants to do; she may go back.She said it was a culture shock at first (must've been New Jersey ), but now she's like one of us. Isn't America great?[router SSID: default; channel: 6; when will they ever learn?]
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I left the News Cafe and walked across the street toward the beach. In Lummus Park, which is just a strip of grass in front of the beach, there's a model shoot going (the photographer is using a high-end digital camera). They're doing it for a Brazilian magazine called Creativa.They come out at certain times of day, depending on the kind of light they're looking for. You see a lot of model shoots around sunset (and maybe sunrise, if everyone's been up all night.) They don't seem as common as they were in the 80's and early 90's. Maybe it's gotten too touristy around here.This would all be a lot more interesting if I had a digital camera.[Had to move back toward the street to get a WiFi signal. They need to wire the parks and beaches. My battery is dying.]
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Today's posts have been brought to you by Lime Fresh Mexican Grill's 802.11g wireless router, in exchange for a delicious-but-cheap burrito purchase. This place has been a hangout for locals for more than a fiftieth of a century. (Thanks for switching channel from 6 --> 9, Lime dude.)
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That long huh?
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Tonight's posts have been brought to you by the electricity I stole from the condo association (my batteries are weak...sigh.), as well as yet another router called linksys, all done while sitting at the pool bobalicious once asked about, but that I rarely enter.I'm looking at the boat dock, which is still broken from the two hurricanes that came by last year.Tuesday the governor of Florida signed a bill that basically says that you can legally shoot someone if they bother you. (I've gone into hiding.) The CBS news guy was standing in front of a gun shop a few blocks from where I am, talking about it. And then they did a story about Adam Curry and the birth of the "podcast". They filmed him and spoke to him while he was doing an audio walking tour and commentary on South Beach. And then the same day CNN had a story about how they're changing the law on Miami Beach so that sexual offenders can't live within 2500 feet (I think) of a school. That means that no one convicted of a sex crime can live on Miami Beach. But we still have a lot of street people.It's good to see Florida in the news for something other than a hideous crime or a screwed-up election.sdp, you have a body builder for a governer, and soon you may have a surfer lady for a mayor. Don't get uppity and think that San Diego is more corrupt than Miami. This place wrote the book on corruption.
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I guess I should have quoted my "That long, huh?" comment. It was in reference to the Mex grill in business for a fiftieth of a century.I'm assuming your reference to the surfer lady for mayor is in reference to a Time magazine article about the Worst Mayor's in the US. I heard on the radio this morning about the article which said something to the effect that Donna Frye (surfer lady/surf shop owner)almost beat the incumbent/current Mayor. She had actually received more votes than the current Mayor but due to voting errors (she was a write in and people failed to mark the bubble when voting) lost the election. Unfortunatly, that article was very poor journalism because it failed to mention that Donna Frye was Elected to complete an unexpired term. [to the San Diego City Council] in June 2001, she was re-elected to a full, four-year term in March 2002 with a resounding 65 percent of the vote. I guess that doesn't matter... she still just a surfer lady.http://genesis.sannet.gov/infospc/templates/cd6/about.jsp
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"That long, huh?"Yep, I got it. I stole it from Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, the second year of the show, back when Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd did the fake news....Don Pardo would say it each week, if I remember correctly.In Miami-Dade county they're now planning to toss out the voting machines that the spent millions of dollars to buy a few years ago, after the 2000 debacle. They can't get those things to work right, and there's no audit trail. Unbelieveable. I will only vote by absentee ballot, even if I'm not absent (you can do that in Florida).Apparently your mayor has had some difficulties managing money. SD and Miami should be sister cities.I wonder who has the better climate....we have warmer water.
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New Hampshire has a huge legislature, and the members get paid only a token amount, so they usually have a regular "real" job.New Hampshire has had some real off-the-wall poliicians. I spoke to a state rep from the lakes country at a Warren Rudman speech (now that guy was a real statesman...hard to believe he's in Tom DeLay's party). That rep was a genuine wack job.
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We don't have the humidity issue out here. I visited my dad out there a few years back. I showered and got dressed up to go to South Beach. Within 15 minutes of stepping out of the car, I was soaked. And that was in the evening!
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Your father lives in the Miami area?If you're here in or near the summer, you are climatically screwed. Sometimes it gets a bit cold in the winter and rainy in the spring (although not as bad in Miami Beach as other parts of South Florida), but early spring and late fall are often pretty close to perfection.But you still need to keep your cookies tightly wrapped.
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Yeah, I was there in the middle of summer. Very muggy. He live on the beach though, which makes it nice, than inland I would assume. Maybe it doesn't matter. He lives in Hallendale, a bit North from you.
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In reply to:Vagabonds are described in old English statutes as "such as wake on the night and sleep on the day, and haunt customable taverns and alehouses, and routs about; and no man wot from whence they came, nor whither they go."Hey, that sounds like me! I'll have to update my "Occupation".I'm on Lincoln Road, at the end of Euclid Ave., watching all the "beautiful people" pass by. The City of Miami Beach provides communistic free WiFi (SSID: Lincoln Road WIFI) through BellSouth, but they don't have the slightest clue about security. There's not even a firewall.This place cannot easily be described without a camera; a Cinco de Mayo festival is going on a block away. People don't get dressed up much anymore.Golden Beach is between Hallandale and Miami Beach. Eric Clapton recorded his 461 Ocean Boulevard album at a house located at 461 Ocean Blvd. in Golden Beach. People still make pilgrimages there. The guy who owns the house finds it pretty amusing.
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I'm at home thinking about the funniest and craziest things I've seen on this site.
Funniest: Powerlifter's reasoning for supporting Bush over Kerry.
Craziest: Ineligible's suggestion that is would be a good idea for a very troubled 15-year-old kid to become a father and raise a child.
Most argumentative: That would probably be me, all over the place.
Most pedantic: Never mind.
Weirdest: Any suggestions?
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Steve, your exercise for today is to find the difference between what I said and what you said I said. Sharpen your thinking! This isn't the first time you've done this.
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Ineligible ~ You ROCK! 'Nuff said. :smile:
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It was 2:30 in the morning, maybe you should've tried to log off the site for once and tried this thing called sleep
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I do wonder sometimes if Steve ever sleeps. Hmmmm...maybe he's from another planet where they don't need sleep?
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maybe he's on all night hitting the 'main index' looking constantly for new posts to resond to?