May’s Mutterings: Rants and Ramblings
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The New Epilepsy Foundation
As of January 1, the Epilepsy Therapy Project and the Epilepsy Foundation merged and became one organization, the Epilepsy Foundation. The first board meeting of the new organization was held this past weekend in Miami. Jim and I flew down on Friday afternoon and participated in the tail end of the Anti-Epileptic Drug and Devices…
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Abraham & Alfred
I’m not sure that movies watched on an airplane should actually ever count as movies watched but having had the opportunity to watch both “Lincoln” and “Hitchcock” on a recent flight, I did want to take the opportunity to express opinions about both of them. I actually don’t have that much to say about “Lincoln”…
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Istanbul Spring 2013
We spent spring break in Istanbul. The city was not at all what we had expected. Sitting at the juncture of Europe and Asia, we expected a city that was a mix of the two, but it was much more a city of Europe. You also hear the call to prayer blasted through the loudspeakers…
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Another Authentic Chinese Restaurant (in northern Virginia)
100 Degree C (3903 Fair Ridge Drive, Unit H, Fairfax, VA 22033; 703-537-0788). Its website is www.100degreehot.com, and it is an appropriate website title. The restaurant specializes in spicy Hunan cuisine, and it’s a great addition to the several Chinese restaurants in Fairfax that serve authentic spicy cuisine that gives no quarter. Most Chinese restaurants…
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Dinner with Friends
In a moment of arguable insanity, we donated a home-cooked dinner at our house for our school auction. The auction was last April, and, naturally, given everyone’s schedules, the dinner didn’t take place until this past Saturday. The good news about this is that the house renovations are finally complete and the artwork is all…
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Honolulu Restaurants
Thanks to some friends of ours, we were introduced to a fabulous restaurant called Town in Honolulu. No photos of their delicious cooking, I’m sorry to say, but trust me, the food is wonderful. Their website is www.townkaimuki.com. Their motto is “Local first, organic whenever possible, with aloha always.” All we can add is that…
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Hawaii (and the US-Japan Leadership Program)
I highly recommend the concept of being in Hawaii in February. (Yes, that absolutely was an exercise in gloating.) I was there for an executive committee meeting of the US-Japan Leadership Program, and Jim and I stayed a few extra days afterwards to enjoy paradise (aka Hawaii). We stayed in Honolulu, as we think the…
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Sips & Suppers
We went to a supper hosted in conjunction with Sips & Suppers, a fundraiser benefiting Martha’s Table (marthastable.org) and DC Central Kitchen (dccentralkitchen.org) where local chefs prepare meals at the hosts’ homes. At the dinner we attended, the chefs were Scott Drewno from The Source (wolfgangpuck.com/restaurants) and Erik Bruner-Yang from Toki Underground (tokiunderground.com). The chefs…
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Zero Dark Thirty
Jim and I played hookey Tuesday morning and went to see Zero Dark Thirty, partially because we had heard good things about the movie and partially because we wanted to see what all the fuss was about. (Slight digression: Dear Senators who don’t believe in the First Amendment: please understand that the more fuss you…
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Storytelling via Facebook
I posted the above photo on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, and a story emerged in the comments. I am copying the story here for amusement and to illustrate the power of social media (and the creativity of people who have too much time on their hands). The posters shall remain anonymous, to protect…
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