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Entries from August 2007

Louisiana is about two things:

August 31st, 2007 · No Comments

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 […]

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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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