What I Did On My Summer Vacation

[kvarko]

crankyotter has been (rightfully) bugging me to post something. I've been up to a lot, but now I forget what I should blog about :)crankyotter (prave) pikadis min por instigi novan enskribon. Mi multon faris, sed nun forgesas tion pri kio mi verku :)I'm right now hanging out with mollishka in Columbus, OH. We're about to make muffins, so this post will be written in spurts...

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[vfish]

For the benefit of a non-Esperantist, why is it that "Esperanta" takes a capital letter but "angla" doesn't?

[kvarko]

It's a convention that I use (and hope that my readers understand) in order to distinguish between "esper-ant-a" (the present participle adjective form of "to hope") and "Esperant-a" (the adjective form of the language Esperanto).

[ex_sonjaaa]

There is a bit of variation in capitalization. I personally capitalize both Esperanta and Angla for consistency. Some people capitalize the proper nouns but not the adjectives.

[kvarko]

I assumed he was just asking about my contradictory use of capitalization. But, yes, it may worth explaining what rules exist (or don't) in Esperanto about capitalization

[jered]

We were at that very same restaurant at the beginning of June! We were in Montreal with about 15 others from Boston and NYC for Mutek. One of our group found that place one night, and liked it so much that she had us all go en-masse the following evening.

I thought the food was surprisingly good, and the atmosphere was... undeniably unique. They made particularly creative use of aluminum foil, I recall. I'd go back, but I'm definitely not of the right mind to stay there.

[kvarko]

What a great coincidence! I've been going to Montreal for years -- it's one of my favorite cities -- and I'd never heard of this place. We only went to it because we had a tiny little pamphlet showing vegetarian and vegan restaurants in Montreal (made to look like a metro map) and the first place we tried to go was closed, so we kept walking to the second one.

(Yeah, the $15/night is impressive given that even the local youth hostels are something like $45 a night.)

[danj17]

i miss rocky horror in houston -- it was always in a twin-aisle theater, and for outside stuff, they only banned raw meat and liquid. the toilet paper extravaganza wasn't up to the end of blue man group, but it was a whole lot of paper -- it flies a lot better when it's still on the roll... (and the whole thing happens during sword of damocles, not at "great scott", allowing for a couple of minutes of fun..) the first time i went in boston, i tossed my tiny little patch of toilet paper when the bandages started coming off, and was quickly shouted down..

anything different and noteworthy in columbus?

[kvarko]

The "shit bag" contained one whole roll of toilet paper (!), a piece of toast (!!), folded pages of newspaper, and two-three playing cards. I was in the second row, so it was hard to see behind to see what was happening. I didn't catch whether any paper flew when Rocky came out, but when Dr Scott busted in, I wanted to throw and didn't sense that anyone else was throwing, but eventually someone broke the ice and a toilet paper war started. Instead of water, Frank threw a cup of popcorn or candy or something like that

Vegan food

[crankyotter]

Hey! I went to a vegan food restaurant too! It's called Ubuntu and is somewhere in wine country (Napa or Sonoma). It too is a yoga studio and had delicious food. But it was so slow as to be crippling. I filled up on about 18 olives in basil and almonds in sugar-salt-lavender rub because our pre-determined dishes came at such long intervals. We were pretty well packed and ready to go when some waitstaff floated by and said we had 2 more dishes as well as dessert coming and we told them to pack it up because we were done. Not to mention full of olives. I should have taken a pic of the food, but instead I got a light fixture and their bathroom.