Today’s Photos: Delhi & Kathmandu

Day three of my eighteen-day photo tour of India & Nepal (which before today hasn’t actually featured any India or Nepal) is up on the page. More to come soon, hopefully still keeping up on the daily pace even during…

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Today’s Photo Uploads: Air Over Afghanistan

So I think I’m going to be releasing these roughly daily, which means I can keep up the pace of uploading photos without spending all my time on it and/or driving myself crazy. Today’s photos are from the 25th of…

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Back from India, etc.

Well I’m back from India, as should be relatively obvious from the recent spate of Duck & Cover updates (I missed Thursday because the internet was down), as well as the overhaul of the page theme here. It was an…

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Quicker Update from India

I’m back in an internet cafe, one with a painfully slow 33.6 Kbps that makes me yearn for the national parks of Nepal. We’re holed up in Orchha, India, a village of a scant 9,000 people with an incredible number…

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Quick Update from Nepal

Hello from Chitwan National Park in Nepal! I won’t attempt to try to describe the events of the past few days, but they have been among the most memorable in a very long time. I am currently sitting in an…

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It’s Good to Be Wrong

And now I’m back. From outer space. If by “outer space,” I mean “a cabin in the woods with the Garin Clan.” And I do. As far as Iowa goes, Henry Clay once said “I’d rather be right than President.”…

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Winter World Tour 2007-2008

As I’ve often been known to say, change is the only constant. This has perhaps never felt more true than this week, which is simply over-brimming with upheaval and possibility. Forget ungainly metaphors about baby steps and windows and doors.…

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The Beat(ing) Goes On

I am still sick. Quite sick, in fact. No more sick, perhaps, but certainly no less. Today, possibly, my head will clear enough for me to begin a deluge of posts that, like so much nasal discharge, has been welling…

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The Sickness

Been sick since late Thursday. Still sick today. Going back to work, still sick or not, tomorrow. This explains the lack of everything. The thing about being sick is that one suddenly has tons of unbudgeted time, but the energy…

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