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Pictures from Haiti are online here. Only six pages this time, for a total of 164 shots. I’m trying to organize my thoughts into a travelogue … but as usual there are just too many thoughts and not enough time. Here’s a picture of a group of charcoal burners. These folks are at the very . . . → Read More: Haiti pictures I found out from one of the young men who runs the guest house where we stayed in Port Au Prince that three members of Haiti’s most popular rap / hip-hop group, Barikad Crew, had just died in a horrible car accident. They were driving between gigs, and a high tension electrical wire touched their . . . → Read More: Haiti Vignette: Barikad Crew Posting from the Miami International Airport. I’ve been in Haiti for a week with many adventures, but no internet access whatsoever at any of the places that we stayed. All the locations usually have satellite links, but for one reason or another all of them were offline. I mention this for the benefit of those . . . → Read More: Safely back Made it back early from the trip, early enough to make it to Judo practice. I’m glad I did. I’m glad to be back on the mat. I hope I don’t hurt myself again too soon. I know people by name and face who are at the Olympic trials this week. I read Rain Fall . . . → Read More: Judo Okay, first off, the F-22’s were doing triple formations this morning over the base. I actually had to pause my phone conversation to say “holy SHIT! F-22 just strafed me!” on the way to work. That rules. Second, I’m being paid pretty darn well to do some damn hard engineering. 1.2PB of hot disk storage, . . . → Read More: Booyah. There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. I really can’t say enough good things about Art Weekend. As I make my way through the thoroughly ordinary trials and stresses of a thoroughly ordinary week … I find myself relaxed and happy, and contemplating breaking out the Japanese brush painting kit for, perhaps, an attempt at a more still life. . . . → Read More: Art weekend Once again, the artists statement for The Pain speaks for me: “Now I’ll Eat Anything” makes a pretty good motto for the American presidential campaign in general. It’s gotten to be that time, when both candidates will eat absolutely anything they have to to win. A nice metaphor for every humiliating pose they have to . . . → Read More: Now I’ll Eat Anything I’m finally starting to see some solid numbers on the overall size and shape of the US’s current economic woes. According to the Economist, banks have written off about $335B dollars, of an estimated $500B of actual bad debt. This is the money that is actually, really, seriously gone from the economy. Mortgages were written, . . . → Read More: Money |
