December 29Got in a taxi and headed for the Botswana border ... I donrsquot want it to sound like itrsquos some epic journey ... 1 hour tops ... anyway from one taxi we hopped into another one ... after trying to figure out the real price of course ... got a deal for 2 cabs 200000 kwacha ... roughly 40 ... not bad.Rushing towards the Botswana border...Arrive ... line up in the correct immigr
South Africa BAZ Bus Style
I know its been awhile since I updated all of you Tons has been happening and now that I am traveling about South Africa reliable internet is becoming harder and harder to come by. Twoards the end of December I made the decision that I would travel for the next three months or so rather then continue to stay in Tzaneen. Due to the Dollor to Rand ratio changing from 10 dollars to the rand to just
Beginning
It's time to get a bit organized and tick the first things off my ToDolist written in erratic handwriting on a busy afternoon a few days ago. besides wonderfully exciting tasks such as filling in the tax declaration getting the final injections against tropical diseases and visiting the AMS Austrian unemployment office there is also the task of getting yourself a travel blog. well now
China dream
China was a dream come true. We visited there from Dec. 26 31. Then we returned to Korea to celebrate the New Year. We stayed in an historic neighborhood called Hutongs. Our hotel was a restored home built around two courtyards and it was aptly called Courtyard 7. I would highly recommend it to any visitors. Our two rooms overlooked the back courtyard where unmarried daughters usually stayed. The
Lucky or something like it
Have you ever felt like you were just lucky Recently I feel like my life has been so full of blessings that I cannot even accept all of them for what they are. I have found myself waiting for something to be taken away from me waiting for bad news or I dunno... just thinking that someday I'm going to wake up and my life will have been just a dream. I'm on this topic because of Haiti. I've been
I heart Glebe
Jan 17th SundayHello hello Wersquore still alive and kickin Last we wrote we were at Bondi beach enjoying the sunshine. Only a wee bit has changed since then. We moved back into Sydney to a little town called Glebe. Our hostel is almost half the price of what we were paying in Bondi so that really beat all other preferences. Itrsquos a small hippy town with lots of shops and cafs along the
From Perth to Broome to Kununurra and Katharine
Welcome back to you all . This marks the 8th blog and this section covers an astounding nearly 9000 kms of Oz terrain Let me catch you up Sandra and I flew from Perth as scheduled January 8th and left the comforts and friends of legoland Fremantle to arrive in the small but very comfortable hamlet of Broome. Our flight left as scheduled on Virgin Blue it also arrived as scheduled We w
Salta First taste of Argentina
Arrival in Argentina was not without a long 24 hours of travelling from SUcre in Bolivia but it seemed worth it when we saw beautiful blue skies and and locals wearing shorts and vests again. The Altimeter on my watch went under 1000 meters for the first time in over 2 and a half months which was interesting I was starting to get used to the climate at high altitude. When our bus finally stopped
MARIA’S COOKERY CLASSES FORT COCHIN KERALA
MARIA'S COOKERY CLASSES SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN THE YEAR 2000 HAS BEEN IN THE FOREFRONT AS FAR AS IMPARTING COOKERY LESSONS ARE CONCERNED.. SHE TEACHES COOKERY LESSONS MOSTLY TO FOREIGNERS AROUND THE WORLD. HER SPECIALITIES ARE KERALAN CUISINES.. LIKE THE CHICKEN MASALACHICKEN FRY PRAWNS MASALA PORK VINDALOO FISH CURRY FISH FRY ETC. ETC... BESIDES THESE ITEMSSHE ALSO TEACHES VARIOUS VEGETARI
Day of Departure
The day of departure has arrived so we bid you farewell but also hello as we hope someone will be reading this... We are in a mad rush to get everything finished so this had better be brief. Keep checking we WILL find a computer somewhere to update
The Road To South Africa…10 days to go
Itrsquos not about what you dohellipitrsquos about how you do it.Traveling is a great experience it opens your eyes whether you like it or not to the truth. Some of you might know that for me this truth was not that positive. After bailing out on my first backpacking trip and creating a growing frustration during exchange in Scotland simply not enough satisfaction in what I was doing I
Pat Buchanan puts Sarah Palin over Ron Paul on Tea Party enthusiasm
Breaking from Breitbart...
Panel discussion on PBS's McLaughlin Group on Saturday: 5 minute segment on the influence of Ron Paul and his followers within the GOP.
The discussion centered on Ron Paul helping to spurn the growing Tea Party movement. Paleo-conservative commentator Pat Buchanan chimed in at the end:
[The Tea Party began] after this nomination of Sarah Palin. This enormous surge to McCain. Enormous crowds of people coming out, when he couldn't get a couple hundred people out before then....
Now Ron Paul will do better than he did before because he will get some of those votes. But right now, quite frankly, the one candidate who can get 'em better than anyone else is Ms. Sarah Palin.
Side Note - Roundtable gave predictions on Massachusetts. Four out of five, including McLaughlin, and liberal commentator Clarence Page predicted Scott Brown win. Only Eleanor Clift replied Coakley.
See McLaughlin Group video at Breitbart.
The Haitian Catastrophe: Libertarian perspectives
From Eric Dondero:
Please visit our sister site Worldwide Liberty, for articles on the disaster in Haiti from a libertarian perspective. We also encourage submissions for that site on the current tragedy looking for other libertarian solutions.
Both Senior Editor Clifford Thies, Ph.D in economics, and I offer a couple articles with our thoughts. Clifford tackles the practicality of the crisis and how the U.S. can best respond immediately, mainly through massive mobilization of the mighty U.S. Military. I look at the long term, and offer a uniquely libertarian view: Expand the U.S. Territory that already exists there - Navassa Island - to cover all of Haiti, making it a possible U.S. Protectorate. Then, turn Haiti into one giant Free Trade Zone; a Hong Kong of the Caribbean.
There has been precious few commentary and coverage of the Haitian crisis within the libertarian movement. Visits to libertarian sites, shows few if any articles or even mentions of Haiti. This obviously has to do with the generally isolationist attitudes of the majority of libertarians, from Cato to Von Mises Inst. to the Ron Paul movement. We here at Libertarian Republican and Worldwide Liberty take a decidedly different - more internationalist view - of libertarianism. Unlike our neo-isolationist counterparts, we advocate spreading liberty worldwide. Thus we offer an outlet for discussion of libertarian alternatives for Haiti.
Second Edition of "This Week in Space" Online
"Miles O'Brien and "This Week in Space" are back for their first show of 2010. In this episode: the space nation awaits direction from President Obama, Endeavour gets ready to deliver a room with a view, how an abandoned McDonald's is being used to restore closeups of the Moon, a space telescope finds new planets, plus an interview with Hubble-Hugger-In-Chief John Grunsfeld. You also can subscribe for free to watch episodes from iTunes."
Also featured is the return of Moon rocks and Everest rocks by Scott Parazynski to NASA for placement inside Node 3 on the ISS.
Boeing Layoffs at KSC
Boeing Lays Off 36 Employees at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, SpaceRef
"The Boeing Company, part of both the United Space Alliance and United Launch Alliance has laid off a total of some 36 of its employees at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. These employees run the range from general support personnel to engineers. The employees were given two month notices. Boeing has hundreds of employees that work in the shuttle program, most of whom will lose their jobs when the shuttles are mothballed. More layoffs will happen in the spring and again in the fall."
APIX_PILOT PLANT – Manufacturing Systems for Banana Fiber Molded Crockery
Here we shall briefly cover the basic production systems that would make up BANANA FIBER SUBSTITUTED MELAMINE CROCKERY MOLDING-SHOP SET-UP. Our discussions would be based on the illustration here:
(click on this link for enlarged view: MOLDED CROCKERY MANUFACTURE)
The
Better Ideas Needed to Solve Climate Change
Over the next few weeks, leading nations will be deciding the fate of the Copenhagen Accord, the three-page climate change agreement recognized at last month’s international summit but never [formally] adopted.
If they embrace it, they’ll also be embracing a process that sidestepped one the highest procedural hurdles of the UN system, unanimous consent.
On Jan. 31, the first deadline of the Copenhagen Accord arrives. It isn’t mandatory — the accord was recognized by the Conference of Parties at last month’s summit but never adopted because six countries objected — however, Annex I countries that formally associate themselves with the accord agree to declare their 2020 emissions reduction targets by the Jan. 31 deadline.
Many groups and individuals are now saying that the UN is probably the wrong place to depend on to solve the climate change crisis with a world-wide agreement that will never happen. Unanimous consent is not something that should be required for a climate change agreement; a majority agreement should be enough. Too many countries were involved in COP15 with too many disparate agendas and arguments ensued that weren’t even about climate change. Mostly, it was an economics summit — it became more about economic justice than climate change. Climate change is a crisis all its own. Do we fix it or does everything have to be determined right now on the basis of who pays what? It’s more important to get started.  It’s frustrating to see every conference on climate change break down into squabbles about money. There have to be better ways to think about how best to stop climate change and it’s obvious that better ideas are needed.
350.org is one of the best and most persistent organizations working to solve climate change by including everyone and every idea they can. They are responsible for setting the original target of 350 ppm (of CO2 in the atmosphere) as the upper target for what the climate can endure and support life as we know it, based on the recommendation of scientist Jim Hansen. As you can see from the black icon on the left, the climate is currently over 387 ppm so we need to get that number down or all life on earth is endangered. CO2 is the main driver of global warming and climate change. Bill McKibben is the leader of 350.org and it was his 350.org movement which got 350 as the CO2 target at Copenhagen’s recent climate summit, and as the target goal in the mind of the public.
So much of the public awareness of the dangers of CO2 can be credited to Bill McKibben. Now after the lack of a binding treaty at the COP15 Copenhagen summit, McKibben is back with another plan: gathering ideas from everyone possible to form a new way to combat climate change. Essentially he agrees with me that the world needs to stop depending so much on the UN and regular chaotic meetings of nations to solve the problem. He feels we [...]
Hold it! The iPhone Is Still Steve Woz’s Favorite [Blockquote]
After a quote that Google's Nexus One is his "favorite gadget" went around, Steve Wozniak took the time to leave us a note. Read on for his explanation of how everyone misunderstood him and why fanboy-style arguments are ridiculous.
This is the comment Woz left us in the on the post about his gadget preference:
Actually, everyone got it wrong. My favorite phones are my iPhones. When asked what my favorite gadgets were I took it to mean new gadgets I was playing with (that I considered good). I am not a switcher but I'm not going to tell people that the Nexus One is not a good gadget. Same for the Droid. I continually buy and play with new hot gadgets because I gets asked about them all the time. I have had prior Android phones that I didn't consider good. I usually have between 2 and 6 different cell phones on me, more when there are interesting product introductions.
I try mainly to make good comments but I'm honest about flaws too. I don't get into arguments trying to claim that there are objective reasons that make one person's phone better than another's. It's subjective. You can't win such arguments, only have a stressful life doing so. I have no problem praising and learning from non-Apple products as well as Apple products, when they are good.
I think this is yet another reminder of why we adore this brilliant man. Thanks for the follow up, Woz.
Nipple Lasers? NPLE LAZRZ!!! [Image Cache]
Shark with lasers are so aughts. Nipple lasers? So old they are the newest new. If anyone can please explain me what's going on here, feel free to talk in the comments or shut up forever.
Was this a promotional shot for an olympic aerodynamic bike? Why did the boobs fire lasers? Why was Geordi La Forge's sister doing neekeed pictures? Why I'm strangely aroused at the idea of nipples firing lasers? These are all questions that need urgent answers. [Thanks David]
Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi Plus Prices (P)Leaked [Unconfirmed]
Unconfirmed, but likely: Pricing for Verizon's first two WebOS devices has leaked, and it's looking like $150 (after $100 rebate) for the Pre Plus and $100 for the Pixi Plus. There'll probably be a buy-one-get-one deal along with that. [PhoneArena]
