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Cromely's World

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Cromely's rants and rave. Frequent topics include book reviews, travel, Seattle politics, technology, and rants about the current state of of the world.

Added on: Nov 18th, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Cromely
Listed in: Personal Travel
Tags: travel books Photography technology Seattle cromely

Recent Posts

Coffee and lessons

Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 05:05 in coffee, holiday

I learned stuff this week:Eventually coffee beans turn into paste.White lawns are simultaneously pretty and creepy.A poorly maintained coffee pot surprisingly doesn't smell.Two or three months ago, I switched my coffee routine. I switched from ...
Delays as the norm

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 03:05 in travel, transportation, airport

On Thursday, the failure of a single piece of hardware in Salt Lake City made a wreck of the air travel system. It impacted hundred of flights and resulted in cancellations and delays across the country as we head into one of the busiest travel weeks...
Geek Culture Part 01: w00tstock poster

Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 05:30 in music, Rant, geek

Seeing the various Geek Culture posts I've done over the past year, it's time it gets its own title category.This weekend, I finally got around to hanging my w00tstock poster. I picked it up at this show in San Francisco last month. After...
Packaging fun -- Coffee Pocky

Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 09:00

A couple weeks ago, The GF picked up a snack for me at Uwajimaya, the local Asian supermarket. The snack was coffee-flavored Pocky Sticks. They tasted sort of like a solid version of the Starbucks Frappacinos you see in bottles at the gro...
Super Mario Galaxy and 244 Stars

Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 05:30 in video games

Finally.Two years ago, I started playing this game on the Wii and mentioned it here. Tonight I finally beat it. I got all 244 stars, playing as both characters, and it only cost me 3,464 lives (2,270 Marios and 1,194 Luigis).Now, I didn't...
Currier Museum of Art

Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 06:17 in travel, Photography, museum

Earlier this week, I unexpectedly found myself with a few hours to kill in Manchester, NH. A colleague suggested I visit the Currier Museum of Art. A $10 admission fee got me into this neat facility.At first I was regretting my decision to visi...