Currently in Mumbai. Nervous to go outside, given the news (Bin Laden Dead, President Obama Says), nervous to stay inside, discovered bedbugs in Stephanie’s mattress—she has 30+ bites on her forearms! 262 bites all over her body!!! #
Screenshot from http://in.blackberry.com/ on May 1, 2011 Hat tip: Aditya Bhandari Wait. Why does that QR Code go to justinsomnia.org?
After Udaipur we went Mount Abu, one of the lesser known colonial-era hill stations. It’s now a weekend tourist destination for Indian families from nearby Gujarat, many of whom come to visit their children at the local boarding schools. It…
I’d read somewhere about the phenomenon where some tourists (usually from Korea and Japan) will request other tourists (usually Caucasian?) to pose in photos with them. And indeed, the first time it happened, at Lake Bratan in Bali, I thought…
Maybe I just didn’t listen closely enough to my own advice. When we were ready to leave Mount Abu, we had about a week and a half left in India. We didn’t want to spend all that time in Mumbai,…
Today I found out that BlackBerry India ran an ad (not unlike their current homepage) prominently displaying my QR Code on the front page of the Hindi-language Dainik Bhaskar (specifically the Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh editions), which apparently has one…
I wanted to write about our time in Mumbai to finish off my series of posts on India, and I started writing something, but it was such a downer (and lacking photos…) that I just couldn’t bring myself to publish…
Of the 70 California State Parks that will be closing due to the budget crunch, I was surprised to discover that I’ve been to 10 of them. Annadel State Park in particular, an enormous and beautiful park east of Santa…
What does the word “safari” conjure in your mind? I see a hot, dry savanna, deep in East Africa, several days from civilization. The grass is tall and yellow. The sporadic, solitary trees cling desperately to life. Transport is a…
Giraffes are easily one of my favorite animals from our Maasai Mara safari. So cool, breezy, unaffected. They tower above everything else, including the foliage, making them easy to spot in the distance. The experience of seeing a giraffe in…
Though leopards are one of the more elusive animals to spot in the wild, we were lucky to see one twice on our Maasai Mara safari. Not only are they shy and solitary creatures, but they also spend a lot…
After experiencing firsthand the plight of “domesticated” Thai elephants at Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, it was nice to come face-to-face with several herds of wild African elephants at Maasai Mara. On our second day, we stumbled across a…
A highlight of our second day at Maasai Mara was seeing several hippopotamus “bloats” in the Mara River. One bloat in particular was basking on the shore, seemingly half-asleep, displaying their spectacular girth in full view. This was a rare…
I had no idea zebras were so numerous. Apparently a herd of some 600,000 zebras precede the famous July wildebeest migration into Maasai Mara. The zebras cut down the tall grasses and the wildebeest follow up with the shorter grasses…
I already posted a series of lion photos from our first day at Maasai Mara (in a stupor after devouring a buffalo), but we were lucky enough to stumble upon several prides of lions over the following days, which gave…
All those cute lion cubs have to come from somewhere, right? We also saw lions getting it on! Apparently they mate for a full week, making “love” every 10 minutes! I am not making this stuff up. I couldn’t believe…
We were driving back to camp after our second day at Maasai Mara, the sun had already set, and all of a sudden we skidded to a stop on the track leading out of the reserve. Right there, sitting beside…
Several animals at Maasai Mara caught in the act of yawning. Hippo yawn Post-coital lion yawn, tongue out
I picked up a 50-200mm telephoto zoom lens back in March (see: More elephanty goodness) primarily for the Maasai Mara safari—and any other wildlife we might encounter on our overland trip through East Africa. Looking back at my previous posts,…
Currently in Mumbai. Nervous to go outside, given the news (Bin Laden Dead, President Obama Says), nervous to stay inside, discovered bedbugs in Stephanie’s mattress—she has 30+ bites on her forearms! 262 bites all over her body!!! #
Happened to catch an episode of Detroit 1-8-7, a TV show I’ve never heard of, and though it was a fairly routine police drama, and though both of the intertwined and unrelated mysteries were predictably wrapped up by the end, I was impressed that one of the storylines dealt with urban exploration, “ruin porn”, and the decay/renewal of Detroit. It was like the show’s writers read the same blogs I do!
(BTW, it was episode 11: “Ice Man / Malibu”) #
Yummy: Raspberry Pi (ultra-low-cost computer, about the size of a USB key, running Ubuntu 9.04) #
Very cool post by Eric of 3 Fish Studios on Ginkgo Monotype Printmaking #
For future reference: A little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools #
xkcd I liked more for the tooltip: Chain of Command #
Anil Dash:
I’d like to be writing the content that everyone links to in those media, instead of merely passing around links to other people’s work.
I feel similarly.