The Gmail hype is officially over.. sniffing on ebay returns no bid higher than a buck for a single unnamed address.

A fight I *don’t* want to see. Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush in ’08. for the love of Pete… don’t let it happen.

Went to the Aventura Mall with Danny last night… it was that or the Seminole Casino, and roaming a new mall sounded more interesting. (I’d still like to venture over to the Hard Rock over Seminole way, sometime)

I had a nice late dinner of cucumber salad and sizzling tofu, with a cocktail made from an assortment of rums, and juices of pineapple and mango.

I want to come back sometime soon, if only to take pictures of some of the great courtyard sculptures.. after sundown, I only had my palm, and no flash made it far too dark. There’s one of two kids riding an alligator that really caught my fancy.

Sculpture outside the bank. A giant rabbit leaping over a bell. The cars give some sense of scale. Why a rabbit? Why a bell on the ground? I don’t know the story behind it at all. Interpretations welcome.

Brickwork pillbox/ cobbles under the sculpture. The slots cover lights that shine on the thing at night, I think.

Food Court! I don’t think that a freezer-pop is available, but all the other items are… though I think the fish they serve is sans gills, tail and eyes. The Mediterranian place has fairly dried out falafel, but the hummus is good.

Neato play area, below the first level. I especially like the grouper-tunnel you can crawl through… enter through the mouth and emerge… well.. it’s not all that anatomically correct, fortunately.

Giant dolphins swim by the pirate ship, but the turtle has more fans. I like the turtle more, too.

I fooled with the brightness and contrast, and this is the best shot I could get. not seen are the gator’s totally sinister face and mouthful of crooked, sharp teeth, or the kids smiling and laughing. niftily sinister.

One of several indoor fountains.. when at its highest goes the full three stories up, all the way to the 24-plex theaters.

The Most frickin’ evil thing in the mall. three eyeless, razor-toothed pigs, guarding some store. Also note the antler chandelier.

We dinner discussing Bill Murray movies (The Razor’s Edge / Lost in Translation), philosophy, solipsism, physics – in particular why I hate dark matter/energy theory due to the circular logic I see in it, and explained to him some quantum mechanics.

Danny thinks time is an amorphous essence or force. I think it’s a unit of measurement. We’re probably both right.