The Travel Sage’s Neighborhood

Just ate this for lunch:  an Acme Markets Frozen Bean Burrito heated with a glob of CheezWhiz all over it, and sliced tomatoes and salsa on top.  And then I had 5 mini-Reeses. If a killer meteor hit the Earth right now, I'm pretty sure I'd die smiling.   :)

do you ever wake up and have a random phrase or word just stick to the walls of your head? this morning it was fon du lac. i have no idea where i've come across it, but it's just been in my head. i'm going to keep a record of this. i looked it up; it's a city in wisconsin, wtf. 

Nichée dans la superbe vallée du Sioulot, cette basilique romane est bâtie à flanc de montagne dans un petit village aux toitures couvertes de lauze.

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Pré salé

Pré Salé

Mont Saint-Michel

I just tried to scan a slide. Here it is. Didn't work well, which makes sense because my printer/scanner isn't intended for that. Does anyone have a slide scanner? How TRULY useful are they? Or is there a way to "trick" my non-slide-scanning scanner into scanning a slide? I have a few hundred slides....some are pretty good, as I recall (I did a lot of "artsy-fartsy" stuff and a wedding reception shoot that I was actually paid for...heh). I don't expect to take any more slides, though, so I don't want to spend $$$ to get a slide converter, for one round of scanning. I'm guessing that taking the slides somewhere to have it done is very pricey, too. Can't do that either. Hmmmm.
Just tried another scan, this time with the transparency out of its frame. Nope; still not close to OK. Help?

Mylyn is a Task-Focused Interface for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does this by making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA.

See also

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-mylyn1/