Archive for May, 2005
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
One of the nice things about meeting people around the world is having friends in far-flung places that you can visit when, for example, your flights back from Rwanda to Seattle are completely fucked up. (just an example). Last night around 8 PM local time I called up my friend Ingrid ...
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
Writing a blog entry at 2:15 AM early on the morning of May 30th from Nairobi is not exactly what I had intended to be doing. I had, in fact, intended to be on my way to a quick hopscotch through Amsterdam and then an onward flight to Seattle. It ...
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Friday, May 27th, 2005
On Sunday I will board a series of planes that will take me from Kigali back to Seattle (via Nairobi and Amsterdam) over the course of around 32 hours. The last several weeks have flown by - it's odd how malleable time ends up being, as the first several weeks ...
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Friday, May 27th, 2005
During last weekend's cycling festivities, a few of us got to talking about the potential utility of a CamelBak with a built-in filtration system. Stop in any village along the route, fill up, and quench your thirst with safe (if not exactly tasty) water.
Then earlier this week I ran across ...
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Friday, May 27th, 2005
A couple of weeks ago a friend here asked if I would be up for driving support for a pack of expat cyclists that were planning to ride from Gisenyi to Kibuye along the shore of Lake Kivu in western Rwanda. My job was relatively easy: drive the truck in ...
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Apparently eating a lot of Thai/Chinese/Korean food (and using chopsticks along the way) helps you become more skilled in the cloning lab:
"This work can be done much better in Oriental hands," Hwang told Nature Medicine. "We can pick up very slippery corn or rice with the steel chopsticks." Hwang also ...
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Friday, May 20th, 2005
Suddenly I've got travel up the yin-yang (not that this is a bad thing). OK, maybe not suddenly given that I just got back from Cape Town and Nairobi a couple of weeks ago, but now the next two months are just full of fun travel madness.
Tomorrow I'm off to ...
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Friday, May 20th, 2005
Editor's note: if you're not a total geek like El Jorgito, I suggest that you skip this post and in lieu of reading it simply say "flibberty-jibbet" three times in a row. Out loud, please. Thank you.
So, I am by no means an accomplished developer. I can write relatively small ...
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Thursday, May 19th, 2005
I'm on a ticket buying binge... just picked up tickets to go see Neil Diamond (my personal hero) at Key Arena in Seattle on September 20.
Cracklin' Rosie is my signature karaoke song; I'll be belting it out along with my boy Neil at the top of my lungs.
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
Woohoo! I've just gone out and bought a pair of tickets to the December 19 U2 show in Portland... from Ebay, so not cheap but not absurdly expensive either (think good seats to the opera or a Broadway show). Upper deck but second row; I thought about floor tickets but ...
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