Category Archives: Miami

Heading Straight For Us

Hurricane Frances.

And they say it could be category four real soon.

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New Student Blogger

UM has another student blogger, Jason Wolf, who writes the ominously-named random acts of meanness.

And, indeed, I have a bone to pick with this new UM 1L already. In one of his first posts he disses Scotty's Landing, calling it the “worst restaurant on earth”. I'm sorry, it's not even close. Indeed, the food is perfectly OK, certainly no worse than lots of other places, and the view of the ocean and the Miami skyline is spectactular. Try it again some time when the weather is nicer.

Update: Consider, for example, Denny's, “Always open, always awful.”

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We Are So Cosmopolitan

The BBC reports that the UN says Miami has the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world.

Some 59% of people in the city were not born in the US, the UN Development Programme report said.

…Toronto had the second-highest proportion of foreign-born citizens (44%), while Los Angeles was a close third with 41%.

Another two North American cities – Canada's Vancouver (37%) and New York (36%) – made it into the top five, the report said.

Outside North America, the town-state of Singapore scored highest (33%), followed by Australia's Sydney (31%), Abidjan (30%) in Ivory Coast, London (28%) and Paris (23%).

Plus we've got Shaq. But he was born in Newark.

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Miami Slighted

How come the cool book tours almost never come to Miami?

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You Get Used to the Monsoons

A UM first year encounters a local meterological phenomenon:

I like the weather in Miami — it's usually sunny and warm — which is a distinct difference from anywhere else I've lived for nine months of the year. The problem? There's this particular tendency for it to monsoon, sometimes out of the clear blue, that lasts for thirty minutes and then totally clears up. It's perfectly tropical.

I think I prefer snow to this.

You do get used to it. And it usually ends before the end of the work day, which is convenient.

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One Type of Battleground Miami is Not

It seems that where I live is just a cash cow, not an electoral battleground.

As for Miami, Mr. Jordan said, the group [Moveon] was not ruling out advertising there in the future but said that the market is already rich in Democratic voters who will likely vote for Mr. Kerry. Miami is also almost prohibitively expensive, he said.

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