Shrimp and petroleum of course! That’s why every year for the past 72 years Morgan City Louisiana has hosted the Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival. The event happens this weekend and promises to be “an event that will prove that oil and water really do mix”. Time Magazine calls it “one of […]
Entries from August 2007
Louisiana is about two things:
August 31st, 2007 · No Comments
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Phone fun
August 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment
When I moved down here I got a cell phone - Emily doesn’t have a land-line so I didn’t have much choice. I’m a big gadget lover though and I hadn’t had a cellphone since working at Rogers AT&T in high school so I was pretty psyched about getting one. While the iPhone […]
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Logotastical!
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments
Here’s the logo I worked up for my new, as-yet-not-online website:
As you can see I am not a graphic designer - although judging from the flower above the “i” I may well be a 12 year old girl.
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That’s my wife
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments
I just completed a redesign of Emily’s website - EmilyCook.ca. It may look a little familiar but what can I say, I love this Wordpress template. Emily’s a really talented visual artist and I encourage you to check out her site. The work there chronicles her art from highschool, through her degree at OCAD to […]
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My new ride
August 27th, 2007 · No Comments
After weeks of watching Craigslist and visiting various bike stores around town I finally settled on buying the bike you see here at Walmart for about $100. I resisted the Walmart bike for a while, hoping something better would come along - buying a bike in the toy section of a store doesn’t exactly […]
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Weinerschnitzel: Pushing the Boundaries of Taste
August 26th, 2007 · No Comments
Weinerschnitzel’s ACTUAL SLOGAN is “pushing the boundaries of taste” - it’s printed on their napkins and everything! Am I the only one who finds this absolutely hilarious? I had lunch at Weinerschnitzel today, it’s a little A-frame take-out hotdog chain here that I’ve been dying to try ever since I first visited Emily. […]
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Home sweet home
August 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Here a quick photo-tour of the neighborhood:
Here’s our place, it’s a nice little apartment above the garage behind a house near the LSU campus. We’re surrounded by trees which keeps the the place somewhat cool but the total lack of insulation makes heating in the winter a bit expensive. Overall […]
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We made it!
August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
Well, the wedding is over and it was a great success (more photos here), I quit my job, we packed up and headed south to Baton Rouge. We had a fun, although too short, honeymoon trip first stopping in Perth for a few days and then heading south through Buffalo, Chicago and Memphis. […]
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Welcome to JPDavidson.com
August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
I bought this domain a little while ago and just got around to putting together this little blog. On the left you’ll find all my contact info (Skype, MSN, SMS, Facebook & email) and on the right you’ll find blog posts I share through Google Reader, photos I share using Flickr and my master […]
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