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Just found this article about an all-glass undersea restaurant on Fark.com, this looks like it would be a great once-in-a-lifetime thing to try out. I can’t imagine what a meal must run but, if you’re vacationing in the Maldives, I suspect cost is not your primary concern.

This prompted me to recall our silver-service dinner at the base of Ayer’s rock (Uluru) in Australia when we visited back in 1999. A formal meal served on formal dishware in the open desert. Trés cool. It was followed by a local describing Aboriginal legends surrounding the moon and followed up by an astronomer highlighting some features of the Southern Hemisphere night sky. His two telescopes (and the lack of ambient light pollution) allowed us an amazingly clear view of a couple of galaxies and other objects that he pointed out.

I also thought the restaurant technology looked familiar so pulled up a couple of pictures of one of the walkways that went through the Sydney Aquarium (in Australia).

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Kudos to Randomfrequencey.net for creating this plugin to allow searches of pages as well as posts!

Now if only I can find a plugin to allow searching comments too!

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Since I like to use my computer for almost all things entertainment, and since my focus has been on importing into rather than exporting photos from my PC I haven’t done a lot of photo printing since the prices became reasonable.

Today we wanted to print some photos and send them to my Grandmother who does not frequent the internet. We picked 10 pictures, uploaded them to Wolf Camera’s website (run by RitzPix.com) and then prepaid a whole $3 to have them printed at a local store. We then went out to lunch at one of our local Panera Bread Restaurants and then swung by Wolf Camera and picked them up. I can’t believe how handy this is!
*Much* cheaper than buying a photo-capable printer and, for the minuscule volume that I intend to print, very cost effective too.

As an aside, the last I heard, Panera Bread was claiming to have the largest network of wireless hotspots in the United States. I would have guessed that some place like Starbucks would hold that title.

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