January 2010
29 posts
December 2009
25 posts
horshammed:
Very long (20 minute) video about frequent flyer miles. Worth watching if you have the time. Amazing story at 15 minutes.
Just a quick response to all this Copenhagen failure talk. All the talk on climate change is missing the point. Climate change requires that all the countries and people of the world work together to prevent or mitigate a catastrophe for the sake of humanity. Climate change requires the people and nations of the world to stop fighting. It is the solution to the problem of war. We need...
Rachel Maddow: Prayercast To Stop Health Reform
Has America always been this crazy and stupid or is it something that has developed because of 30+ years of stupidization by the conservative political machine?
(thanks Naomi)
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and...
– David Foster Wallace - 2005 Kenyon College Commencement Address
chupatz:
On our camel safari from Jaiselmer in Rajasthan, India we stopped a couple of times for the camels to fill up on water. That’s Cindy in her orange turban. When we arrived the trough was already filled. After the camels had their fill we had to fill up the trough by pulling a rope attached to a bucket that went a good 100 feet down. With of us pulling, tt took about 15 pulls of the...
Waves are cool
A short clip of our train ride from Udaipur to Mumbai - 17 hours!