New Orleans Stomp - Turk Murphy

2007: New Orleans is recovering & worth visiting!

Advantages: Still the most beautiful city in the US
Disadvantages: Hurricane Katrina

Reading the other site reviews, it seems like all of them were probably written before Hurricane Katrina did its job on New Orleans. I've been back there several times since the storm, and have a few thoughts. I myself am an expatriate New Orleanian. Born and raised there, I've lived away for several decades, but still have ties and visit occasionally. As it happened, one of those visits was on the weekend before Hurricane Katrina hit. I've been back three times since then, and have seen the city slowly put itself back together. There's no sugar coating it: Katrina did a number on the city. The house I grew up in was lucky: it was on the edge of the flood zone (which covered nearly the entire city, except for the older parts of town hugging the Mississippi River), and so only (only!) had four feet (1.3 meters) of flooding ...

alexlint 04.01.2007 · Read full review
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Should You Work For The Turk?

Advantages: Varied tasks to chose from, Quick and reliable tracking of work and payments
Disadvantages: US-centric, Can only cash out via Amazon.com

baffled many players. Publicly promoted as an automatic machine by its owner, the Turk was in fact a clever illusion, where a human "director" was hidden in the cabinet and controlled the moves of the automaton (if you have time, you can read more about this ingenious device here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheTurk). Similarly, Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a device that harnesses the work of hidden humans to perform small pieces of work that are unsuitable for machines. Like many members on this site, I would consider myself to have a good awareness of the many ways of making a bit of extra money on the internet, yet when I first came across the Mechanical Turk (generally abbreviated to Mturk) a few months ago, it was entirely new to me; that there are no other reviews about it and indeed no category already listed suggests that this will ...

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New Orleans

Advantages: Friendly people, relaxed atmosphere. Be prepared to party, and party hard!
Disadvantages: Keep away from the tacky and overpriced tourist area.

My visit to New Orleans was pretty atypical, myself and a friend hired an aircraft and flew ourselves there from Georgia. For any pilots reading this, the trip was a good one, flying IFR and using Houston Centre for Flight Following and a Radar Service. being typically American aviation, the service was excellent and efficient, and despite being two semi-lost Brits in a single engined aircraft we never had the feeling that they were giving us anything but their friendly, polite best. New Orleans Lake Front Airfield is a controlled airfield about eight miles out from the city centre and has two parallel runways that extend into the Mississippi, undershoot and you're swimming. The facilities were good, offering cheap Avgas and a courtesey car, (Which had been commandeered by the time we go there!), tie down cost 20 dollars, but that was ...

Smokey64 02.12.2000 · Read full review
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