= Such Stupid Things =

Okay, NYT, I know it was a long flight, and you were probably a little jet-lagged, but what exactly gave you the impression that the Downtown Berkeley Farmers Market had "a workingman's vibe"? Berkeley has never exactly been a blue-collar town... with all the students, yuppies and homeless people, does anyone really work in this city at all? Or are we suddenly considering treesitting a profession?

Not to poke too much fun, because most of the "36 Hours in Berkeley" recs were pretty on point. And of course, Berkeley's market has some good things going for it, but I'd wager that the "workingman" is a little hesitant to pay $2 for a peach. Did you try, maybe, some of the more affordable markets in the East Bay? Grand Lake, El Cerrito, West Oakland, South Berkeley, Bayfair, Temescal, etc., etc.?

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Even since the early days of mp3s I've wondered about the proper way to list featured artists in the track information. This mostly comes up in hip-hop and dance music. But as I sit here working on a wedding playlist, I'd curious to know where to people generally stand on this issue...

My personal feeling is that it should go "Artist - Song Title (featuring Other Artist)", so as to not mess up artist-based sorting. But my general experiencing iTunesing around the internet is that most people feel that it's the opposite, "Artist (featuring Other Artist) - Song Title". Sure, you can sort your tracks by album to get around this, but it's the former the better method? I mean, do you really want a Timbaland album to be listed as eighteen separate artists

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My camera's batteries died this weekend at a totally critical picture-taking moment. Unfortunate, to be sure, but it reminded me that I have a sizable cache of un-posted photographs from the past few months. Well, since I've been such a bad blogger I feel as though I should chip away at this.

Behold! I took a trip to Los Angeles back in February. Marie and I spent a few days with my uncle in Studio City, and then I attended the Biophysical Society Meeting in Long Beach. And I just want to mention to any would-be tourists in the area: the La Brea tar pits are absolutely awesome and definitely worth an afternoon of your life.

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The house across the street from our apartment is going up for sale, and ever curious, Marie and I took a walk-through during an open house this afternoon. We played the guess-the-asking price game, and I totally won.

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Hey bloggonauts! Another question for you, less rhetorical this time: have any of you ever been... on a cruise? I'm ISO trustworthy opinions.

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So... when Lark Voorhies joins Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley, and starts hosting her own dance-related reality show, what kind of dance-related reality show will it be?

Interestingly, Tiffany Amber Thiessen seems to have passed the buck, transferring her token dance-themed reality show to former 90210 costar Ian Ziering. Are such things contagious?

Final note: I don't of course, but if I did hold opinions on such things, I'd say that the Jabbawockeez are America's hottest dance crew.

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The weirdest thing happened last night, or possibly early this morning. Someone took the cheapo wooden trellis that Marie and I used to grow snap peas last spring from right out front of our apartment. Stolen!

Though it didn't take us long to deduce that it wasn't some horticultural criminal mastermind we were dealing with... Marie noticed our trellis (we're sure - its the exact same trellis) in a flowerbed two houses away. Some grade-A, VMars-style sleuthing on her part, to be sure. So what are we supposed to do now? Risk an intra-neighborhood meltdown and steal it back?

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Go Red.

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