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July 2003
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Ukraine
Wednesday, 30 July 2003 9:07 A GMT-05
We made our way down to the Kiev from our Moscow trip, I believe, but it’s a bit hazy. We had been planning on going down as far as Armenia but at the time the area was unsafe due to fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
I don’t remembe
Category: Places I've Been
The Emperor of Ocean Park
Monday, 28 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
I don’t read a lot of fiction and I rarely read thrillers. But someone recommended The Emperor of Ocean Park to me and so I listened to an abridged version on audio via Audible.com. The abridgement was only 6 hours so this must have bee
Category: What I'm reading
Back in the USSR
Sunday, 27 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
I began studying the Russian in my sophomore year in college. At the time my major was journalism and they required 2 years of a foreign language. I'd taken Spanish in high school but was never very good at it, and not very intereste
Category: Places I've Been
Amazon.com
Friday, 25 July 2003 11:25 A GMT-05
Ok, I am shamelessly putting a link on my site for people to sign up for a credit card! I can't believe it! But I will at least give you some honest opinions and stories behind my relationship with Amazon.com.
I started buying stuff from Amazo
The Seashell on the Mountaintop
Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
This book on the beginnings of modern Geology centers around Niels Stenson (A.K.A. Nicolas Stenonis, or Steno for short), a Danish scientist who uncovered for the first time the phenomenon of stratification. The book covers his life and in doin
Category: What I'm reading
Wanda - Wifi, GSM/GPRS, and bluetooth Pocket PC
Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
Finally a convergence device to get excited about!Those who have read previous entries should remember the frustrating quest to find a device that is both a phone and has wifi. And although this isn't actually the announcement of a new product (th
Category: Gadgets and Technology
Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Wednesday, 23 July 2003 9:28 A GMT-05
I forgot about this trip to The Bahamas, which was really my first to another country, possibly because I always thought of these islands as a colony or protectorate or something. As it turns out they were actually given their independence from
Category: Places I've Been
Ack! Spelllinggg!
Monday, 21 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
I have a confession to make. I am a horrible speller! I have tried to counteract that with the handy spell-checker, but I was seduced into using a spell checker for Internet Explorer that I thought worked. It does indeed show you spelling error
Category: Journal
Brave New World
Monday, 21 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
I've been a science fiction fan for a long time, but also since I'm a slow reader I've not read the scores of books described by this genre as one might think. My favorite author is probably Philip K. Dick, although even here I've only read fou
Category: What I'm reading
Oh Canada
Friday, 18 July 2003 3:58 P GMT-05
When I was 22 or 23, I helped my friend Pete move from Detroit back home to Road Island. Really I was just along for the ride since at the time hadn't yet learned to drive. Possibly I loaded some things in van or car, but really I can't r
Category: Places I've Been
Mexico
Thursday, 17 July 2003 9:54 A GMT-05
This was the first country outside of the U.S. I traveled to. I was 14 and went there with my mom and sister. We went to Puerta Vallarta. Initially we went to a tiny motel that was very rank. My mom decided it was unacceptable
Category: Places I've Been
Oh the places you'll see!
Thursday, 17 July 2003 9:52 A GMT-05
I've always loved the idea of traveling to new places, but this unfortunately hasn't translated into reality as much as I'd like. I really like travel narrative and if I had the money and the time I would do a lot more traveling myself. I
Category: Places I've Been
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
For those of you who aren't familiar with Bill Bryson, I recommending becoming so as soon as possible. He is primarily known as a travel writer, but his most recent book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, is kind of a Cosmos, a book about h
Category: What I'm reading
Moneyball
Saturday, 12 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
Although I haven't followed baseball much in the last 10-15 year, growing up in NYC with the Yankees dominance in the late '70's, I was obsessed. I must have seen at least half a dozen games a year for a while. They were often planned as
Category: What I'm reading
Large birds in NYC
Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
I thought I'd experiment and finally try to add some pictures in here! This shot is of a crane, I think (hey, what do you want, I grew up in the city!), that I took on our trip to NYC last weekend. This is in central park, of course, on t
Category: Photos
Mean Genes
Thursday, 10 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
Mean Genes is a look at human behavior in all it's constructive and destructive forms and how we can explain much of it in the context of genes and natural selection. Although they don't discount psychological factors, they do note at the begin
Category: What I'm reading
Trans fats get more scrutiny!
Wednesday, 9 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
Finally! That is the sentiment a lot of folks who've been following this issue have been expressing now that the FDA is going to announce food labeling changes that will list trans fats or trans fatty acids as an individual item.
For th
Category: Health, Diet, and Nutrition
Diabetes
Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
Finally, an article about how some in the medical community are taking the ADA (and others) to task for recommending high-carb diets for those with Diabetes. Given the basics about macronutrients, it seems ridiculously obvious th
Category: Health, Diet, and Nutrition
Sorry
Monday, 7 July 2003 11:59 P GMT-05
It's been way too long! A few things culminated in conspiring to prevent me from posting anything here for a couple of weeks, which I will explain below. I thought for once I could post some stuff that was a bit more personal instead of what I'v
Category: Gadgets and Technology Journal