I was forced to do something about this joke of a sandwich delivered to me. Something had to happen. Sandwiches don’t look like this for $7, let alone double the price from a kitchen owned by one of the city’s top toques. Just look at the sandwich “filling” to the left in the...
Patti and I were starting to become friends when I asked her if she might be interested in taking a road trip with me to Maine to pick up a single—an old restored wooden racing shell from the ‘70s. I didn’t even know how to row a single yet, but somehow, we both thought this...
One of the things I noticed at the Parker pool that day was watching room service being delivered to the guests. Men and women in crisp uniforms bringing coffee in silver French presses to rooms just beyond my view. I was so envious that this wasn’t my life. I have since learned how...
Excellent café in a historic building. The structure was once the coal office of a prominent business in Ithaca in the early 1900s. A large boulder of coal can still be seen as you enter the front door on the right. Inscribed on it are the words "Coal Office." Too heavy to move, ...
I was no longer experiencing simulated input, created for me by the OASIS servers—I was actually feeling the world through this surfer’s body, moment by moment, delivered by her synapses. Raw neural input, from a brain that was not my own. When the wave crashed over me a few ...
plane I was on, it was delivered home minus a carton of cigarettes. But it was worse for the other passenger whose suitcase didn't come. She was to go on a two week cruise that same evening & didn't speak the language here nor English. Poor thing. ...
I was no longer experiencing simulated input, created for me by the OASIS servers—I was actually feeling the world through this surfer’s body, moment by moment, delivered by her synapses. Raw neural input, from a brain that was not my own. When the wave crashed over me a few ...