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giant wave
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Feb 8, 2025
In defense of whom?
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Of Elon Musk, of course---the most hated man on the planet. And who is defending him? A senator Kennedy---John Kennedy---who's not part...
Feb 24, 2024
Michael on the Beach --- today, during a "gigantic wave alert"
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Apr 25, 2023
Fame, fame, fame--Big Nazaré and us
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Folks, this is the third time inside a week that we are witnessing an extraneous reference to us --- or, more precisely, to Nazaré, our sist...
Aug 21, 2022
CO2, or F--- PC
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We are no friends of CO2, but we aren't friends of Victorian excesses either, (Queen Victoria, remember, the patron saint of the Victori...
Dec 9, 2021
Yesterday -- wave alert
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We've had a wave alert for the Praia do Norte yesterday, with estimated breakers of 10 meters. The sheep were characteristically unimpre...
Jun 18, 2021
The giant wave
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This surf figures in the Guinness Book of records, but it is rare (happening twice per year perhaps) and very local (just at the tip of th...
Jan 5, 2020
Star Wars Episode IX -- Review
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We're still living in Le Trayas, 19 kilometers from Cannes, or 19 quilometros, as they say in Portugal, whereto we are planning to rel...
Dec 7, 2018
Portugal (16)
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You know, we intend to move to Nazaré, located between Porto and Lisbon on the Atlantic Coast. This year, in January, it recorded the high...
Oct 12, 2018
More beach --- Portugal (11)
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This is a few kilometers north of Nazaré, the town with the largest surfable waves in the world:
Oct 4, 2018
Portugal (9)
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Yesterday evening, shortly before sunset, on the Praia do Norte---a surfing competition is in preparation: Conditions...
Sep 23, 2018
Portugal (7) -- Can you see the surfer?
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You can't, actually, not on the notebook display, where he's screened out by an ad for Ampersant's scabrous story about th...
Jan 5, 2014
Thinking outside the box
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Nov 10, 2012
The nadir of American Conservativism
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This text, written by Eric Dondero, appeared on the website LibertarianRepublican.net . We don't think it'll stay up for long, even ...
Oct 4, 2012
Les voiles de St. Tropez
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Sacha sends an email asking whether we would know a way to get on a boat and watch Les voiles de St. Tropez closeup. We suggest to rent a...
May 24, 2012
Touring Phuket
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So we finally rent a car, and the next morning it is cloudy, rainy, but we don't care, and travel south. A view from the first viewpoin...
Jan 17, 2012
Italian for beginners
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The washed-up scriptwriter sends this clip, and asks the question ""fact or fiction?": And here's the transcri...
Dec 29, 2011
Fundamentalism in trouble (Dirk)
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And while we are at it, lets reminisce: We are driving across the US, as usual, have spent the previous night in a hotel in Wyoming where ...
Sep 27, 2010
The Obama identity
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Vanity Fair has a preview of a new satirical novel with political content by Edward Klein and John LeBoutillier involving, among other thin...
Mar 31, 2010
The mysterious visit of Donna Pérignon
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Saturday night. The wind howls around the house, the timber creaks, the rain beats on the windows, the sea roars below. The doorbell ring...
Mar 29, 2010
The giant wave: the mysterious visit of Donna Pérignon
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Saturday night. The wind howls around the house, the timber creaks, the rain beats on the windows, the sea roars below. The doorbell ring...
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