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Because NOLA used to have such a low cost of living, especially housing, we had wonderfully cheap food and drink. Like fer instance, Gene's Po Boys, Dunbar's Creole Cooking, and We Never Close. (none have working websites)

Aaron is pining for those not-so-long-ago days, and wants Nick's reopened. Visit his website, and join the campaign.

I've been making do at the Lamplighter, Brothers III, and Sharon's. Let us say, these places have character, if nothing else.

Oyster pointed out this article in the Houston Chronicle. Seems like if NOLA refugees leave Houston, then Houston will become Eden. More from da anonymous po boy and Polimom.

On Tuesday, Abandonment Day, I got emails and phone calls from ITN, the independent news agency in the UK, and they wanted to interview me on Channel 4. (BTW, I love English Muffins (Welsh ones too!)) Now, Since K, I've been inteviewed by the LA Times, Chicago Sun-Times, BBC, Times-Pic, and probably others.

But this was the first time they wanted to interview me with a camera. Yes, live pictures of me. I know you're scared...I was too. I thought about wearing the mime getup just for everyone's safety.

So I go to WLAE studios in beautiful Metry, and they wire me up. I brushed my mop, and even trimmed the beard. Then, when they try to do the link-up, only the audio is working. They troubleshoot for a while, and then they get the video and audio.

But, the "window had closed". So ITN calls me, apologizes, and says I can send them a bill "for my time". I don't need their money (although my wife will argue differently), but my fear is that as of August 30, we will be completely forgotten. Totally forgotten. We can zoom up to the top of the news for the 1 year anniversary, but after that, we're on our own.

Sinn Fein, y'all.

I did make it to the Channel 4 Morning Report radiocast, and to their news blog.

SJ Howard writes: I don’t understand how this can happen in the world’s richest country in the 21st century, and I’m not even going to try and comment on something that I can’t begin to comprehend. You are not alone, my friend.

My trusty mac TiBook 15" died yesterday. The Community Iced Tea all over the chassis may have had something to do with it. Actually, when I dissected the thing and saw the burn marks near the power adapter, I confirmed it.

Not a complete loss. I went to CompUSA, not for service thank goodness, but to buy a firewire chassis for the drive. I removed the drive, plopped it in the chassis, booted from it off of my wife's iBook, and all is well. I'm waiting for the Merom-chipped MacBooks next week (hopefully), so life should be kind of OK. I think I'm going to firewire-chassis the SuperDrive, too.

Finally, some reflections on the Rising Tide conference. Thanks to absolutely everyone who worked on the conference. I don't want to list names, because I know I'll leave someone out, but rest assured, if you think they worked on the conference, they probably did, and worked hard.

Because I was running the sound board all day, and fetching that wonderful Dunbar's chicken, I couldn't talk with everyone I wanted to, and not for any length of time. I especially wanted to talk with Greg and Michael a bit more. I got to meet Slate and Dave and Scout Prime, who is doing a yeoman job for NOLA.

Finally, here's the downloadable podcast of Bobby Block and Chris Cooper, authors of Disaster, at the conference.

Comments

[Alan Gutierrez]

Can we create web sites for them on the New Orleans Wiki?

We could create a restaurant page, and if we get enough information on a particular restaraunt, we can create a page especially for that restaraunt.

[Alan Gutierrez]

Firewire chassis for the drive? Uh, could I borrow it to recover the harddrive of my dead powerbook?

[ashley]

Alan: you know how to get in touch with me...we can definitely get the harddrive of the dead Mac up again.

BTW, I drove by Gene's today, and they're open!

[Lisa]

Hmmm. I've got a dead P-Book, too. My beloved Titanium. (Coming to you live from Aluminum right now.) I think the HD may be fried, but you may be hearing from me, too in case there's some chance.

And maybe you can tell me why I have so much trouble with the drives I've installed in firewire cases. I think I have the jumpers right, but the drives hang and cause more problems then their worth.

[Marco]

Like the new look, but can Chirac buy back the larger font?

[ashley]

Marco, the new look will just last through the weekend. I'm with you on the small font...my eyes are a bit too old for this.