Archive for February, 2005
Saturday, February 26th, 2005
Feels like home, which I guess it is, sort of. I'm now officially in Kigali, having arrived from Kampala via Nairobi a few hours ago. My first few nights will be at the lovely Umubano (Novotel) hotel, which is a welcome change from the fine-but-it-got-old-after-three-weeks Hotel Equatoria in Kampala. Some notable ...
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
Not that any more evidence was really needed, but let me just say that John Denver's cover of Eleanor Rigby constitutes airtight proof that he smoked a lot (no, really, a massive amount) of pot. (get it from ). The Mr. Bojangles cover doesn't exactly refute, either.
As my friends will ...
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Monday, February 21st, 2005
I've just now, for the first time in my thirty four plus years of life, realized that “calvary” and “cavalry” are two different words. This epiphany struck while reading a piece about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in Christopher Hitchens' fantastic essay collection Love, Poverty, and War.
From dictionary.com:
Cal·va·ry2 also cal·va·ryn. pl. Cal·va·ries ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
I've loved my phone ever since I got it from Elaine last year for my birthday. It has a camera, is sleek, lets me play fun Java games, and is all around excellent. I got it back from the boys at MTN today - they unlocked it so that I ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
The main impetus for my recent jaunt to Kigali was to check out the house that I've been in discussions to rent/share during my time in Kigali. It's occupied 3 weeks out of every 8 by a very nice woman named Alison who works on a distance education teacher ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Last Friday I jetted down to Kigali for a weekend visit to check out the city, the crowd, and my soon-to-be residence for the next six months. It was kind of like heading to San Francisco for the weekend from Seattle, except a) San Francisco has more decent restaurants on ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Just saw this inaugural mashup via Mark's “in case you missed it” post (and yes, I had missed it). A little on the long side but good for a few chuckles along the way. I particuarly enjoyed the Darth Vader theme music for Cheney and the Looney Tunes for W - ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005
A selection of photos from my recent Ecuador trip are now online. I didn't do much work to crop/adjust white balance/whatever but there are still a few decent ones to peruse.
Side note: I can't believe that Adobe's PhotoShop Album software has a freakin' 63 character limit on captions for photos. ...
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
Funny thing about working with people on different continents - it tends to elongate the work day quite a bit. When I was doing international marketing for Microsoft, I tended to work until 5 or 6, head home and chill for a few hours, and then get online around midnight ...
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
So here's a difficult situation: last night at dinner, I wanted (nay, needed) a cocktail. The concept of a bunch of bourbon in a glass with ice topped off with Coke doesn't really exist here (or in most places outside the US) so I ordered a Jack Daniel's, a bottle ...
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