A wall at Planet Hollywood, Times Square. It contains a couple of hundred Gibson Guitars, mostly the Les Paul.
This is a fitting memorial to the famous Les Paul, who died on August 13 2009. He created the Gibson Les Paul guitar, which was played by almost every rock band in the world.
He also invented multi-track recording, which of course revolutionised the music industry.
Here is a picture of Paul McCartney’s bass guitar – yes the original! It was on the wall at Planet Hollywood on Times Square, New York.
Today I picked about 200 Cape Gooseberries from the bush in my garden. Not bad considering it has only been growing for about 6 months.
Driving into New York City from Foxwoods, on the I95. You have to learn to be quite an aggressive driver to survive here.
But being from Cape Town, I adjusted pretty fast.
I received the strangest email today:
I am pleased to announce that Cds Solutions has been selected for the 2009 Best of Montrose Award in the Automotive Accessories category by the US Commerce Association…You may arrange to have your award sent directly to Cds Solutions by following the simple steps on the 2009 Best of Montrose Award order form
..…
Sincerely,
Ashley Carter
Selection Committee Chair
US Commerce Association
Now, this is really strange for a few reasons:
A Google search seems to indicate that this is either a scam, or a “Vanity Award” organisation. So while I am flattered, I wonder what I would have to pay to receive the actual award! Update – the award costs between $79.99 and $199.99, depending on which particular plaque you wish to receive. This is one award that will not be displayed in my lounge.
Bizarre; has this happened to you!
On Friday we had supper with my cousin Bruce and his wife Melissa. We met at a great restaurant called John’s Pizzeria just of Time Square. I had forgotten how crazy Time Square is, with all the bright lights and TV screens. The screens seem to be getting bigger and bigger (and also better quality) – I would love to get one for home!
Although we had to wait about an hour before we got our table, the pizza’s were great, and in good American tradition, they were huge. Two were plenty enough for four of us to share. The highlight of the evening was to meet our new cousin, Emily. She was on born six weeks ago, and this was her first official outing, so it was quite a treat for all. We were also the first of the Cameron side of the family to meet her!
Emily Cameron
It was not the greatest picture, but she was being really quiet and we didn’t want to disturb her, but she is really sweet!
Here is proud dad feeding her.
We had a great evening, and it was cool to catch up with some of the family in USA, and to get to spend time with my techie cousin. It is kind of bizarre that in a family of Camerons (who are generally very quite), both Bruce and I love public speaking, and are absolute techno-junkies.
Thanks guys for dinner, hope to see you next Sunday for dinner.
It just looked sad, rows and rows of discarded school busses, after spending years moving school children to and from school, ensuring that the child arrive safely at school, the old busses have completed their useful life. They have now been discarded, and left out in the elements to slowly rust away, and die a lingering and painful death.
Today, we were in a computer store buying a laptop for Lois. So, there were were inside Incredible Connection, talking to an 18 year old sales assistant. Lois, who is blind, was buying a laptop from a slightly confused assistant (who had no idea that a blind person can actually use a computer), insisting on a white laptop, because she didn’t want the blue one! The poor sales assistant had no idea what to do.
It was quite a Monty-Python moment.
Note to self: the shop has the laptop network connections rigged to the burglar alarm system, not a good idea to unplug the network cable…
