ELECTRIC POWER AROUND THE WORLD is really useful if you happen to find yourself traveling to weird places (kazakhstan, cambodia, tanzania) where you really need to be able to plug your laptop in #
had gotten emails about the protest, but only coincidentally showed up to get some pizza for lunch before heading to work. very large crowd, peaceably shut down franklin street for a short while, walking, shouting, chanting, beating drums, waving signs…
so there is this coffee shop in raleigh called ‘third place’. i subconsciously associated it with baseball, thinking ‘third base’, but having been there once, i can tell you that there’s no baseball motif. it’s just a small coffeeshop, with…
[written 1AM Sunday March 9th] i read about half of “the razor’s edge” by maugham on the way over here. i think i like it very much. very character driven, great stories told about people’s lives and interactions in a…
[written 10pm Sunday Mar9] so i woke up and it turns out my room looks out over the indian ocean. now i’m beginning to understand “sea-cliff”. i didn’t sleep long, maybe 5 hours, woke at 7am, showered again, and found…
[written 9pm Monday March 10th] the US embassy in tanzania was bombed in 1998 by friends of osama bin laden. catherine, my database partner, was in dar at usaid when it happened. as a result, a new embassy, also housing…
[written 6pm Wednesday March 12] i just got home from work. or maybe i should say i just got back to the resort from the embassy. yesterday we were told that all incoming travel to the mission has been cancelled…
[written 6pm Thursday March 13] going out with amy (from the mission) and her family which means i can finally get out of this musty hotel. since we’ll be leaving in a bit, i’m dashing this off as i think…
[written 11pm Thursday March 13] when i went walking along the coast on my first day in dar, i noticed very large droppings by the side the road. they must have been pretty moist upon hitting the ground, as they…
[written 1pm Saturday March 15] the people at the mission only work a half day on fridays, so we were pushing to get everything done before noon. of course that didn’t happen. i had some lingering reports to complete and…
I traveled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in March 2003 to do some database work for the USAID mission there (just as I’ve done in Kazakhstan and Cambodia). i wake up on the first morning and look out my window…
mostly i just want to push all that icky war stuff down below the fold. has it ever occurred to you that the word we pronounce “apolstry” is spelled “upholstery”. why is that? Etymology: Middle English upholdester upholsterer, from upholden…
so far… i’ve been to the mall, bought a few tshirts, ate at the food court with jackie. i’ve driven to katie’s house in glen lennox to watch movies and eat pizza with her and melanie. i’ve driven to marianne’s…
ELECTRIC POWER AROUND THE WORLD is really useful if you happen to find yourself traveling to weird places (kazakhstan, cambodia, tanzania) where you really need to be able to plug your laptop in #
something is so messed up in the world when the jewish state runs over an american student and peace activist, Rachel Corrie, with a bulldozer. why even BOTHER teaching anyone about the holocaust anymore! #
quote of the day: “There’s faith here in the ability of smart, well-motivated people to do the right thing, anything that gets in the way of that is evil.” Wayne Rosing, Google Engineer #
amazingly great article about the future of the music industry #
great remixed propaganda posters #