Archive for December, 2004
Thursday, December 16th, 2004
From yesterday's Writer's Almanac:
Pretty Happy by Peter Johnson
I have no siblings who've killed themselves, a few breakdowns hereand there, my son sometimes talking back to me, but, in general, I'mpretty happy. And if the basement leaks, and fuses fart out when thecoffee machine comes on, and if the pastor beats ...
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2004
While digging through the site for the US Embassy in Rwanda, I found a link to Tales from a Small Planet - a site for expats and their ilk. One handy page for me is the “real post report” from Kigali, detailing all sorts of juicy little details of things ...
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2004
This is simply the coolest photo I've seen in a very long time.
[via National Geographic]
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Monday, December 13th, 2004
I'm now officially an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church. Weird. But that means that I can now legally and officially marry Jen and Nolan, which was of course the reason for getting ordained in the first place.
I can also perform baptisms if anyone is interested...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
I've been avoiding writing about this in hopes of not jinxing things, but now it's reasonably jinx-proof: it looks like I'll be living in Rwanda for about six months next year. Holy cannoli.
A couple of months ago I was over at the offices of the Grameen Technology Center to have ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
Today Slate ran an article discussing the alleged (and apparently false) claim that the English word “hip” originated in the West African language of Wolof. It's an interesting article for language dorks like me, but more importantly it reminded me of one of my favorite words in any language.
In Wolof, ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
Earlier posts whined about it being a lot of work to come up with trivia questions and finding the right balance between hard and easy questions. This week's trivia night was fine, if somewhat light in attendance (I blame the Seahawks rare Monday night home appearance for this). Seven teams, ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
So, back in early September I posted a list of 10 things I wanted to do in the “next 6 months or so”. Mark asked me three weeks later for an update, and now (3 months into it) seems like a good time to do that. Progress is rather sparse.
Here's ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
The reasons for my interest in this will become more apparent in very-near-future post, but I've been having discussions with several friends lately about the reports that Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said that if the UN or other international forces don't go into the Congo to disarm the Hutu militias ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
Human Rights Watch is disseminating news on (surprise!) human rights issues and the like via RSS, which means I can get the bulletins right in my handy RSS reader in Outlook. Pretty low traffic, which is nice, but it's a lot of information that pretty much everyone should know about. ...
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