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i can quit whenever i want

our apartment is set to have high speed internet installed on wednesday, but it has not been easy thus far.  it seems that our apartment is the only place in town where there is not an open wifi connection or two available.

there was a connection across the street that i could, so i suggested to elisa that i might be able to use a pringles cantenna to give us something until then.  then this happened the other day.

remind me to sweep the apartment for bugs.

when i was your age, there was nothing there but acres of books

"The truth is that big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that look as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staircases than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
-Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards!

you will be missed, acres of books.

living the dream

so much for baghdad.

i have arrived in nicaragua and am loving it so far.  stressful as moving to a new place can be, elisa and i are making the best of it and getting things done.  there's just one quick thing i'd like to share.

when i was filling out my customs forms, one of the lines was the standard "trabajo/occupation" inquiry.  i have known for years now that the answer to that was "consultant", but i consult to no one now.  with my new found freedom, i decided to pursue my dream in life and proudly wrote in my new answer, an answer none of you can possibly disprove.  i may just be starting, but it is now who i am.

"trabajo/occupation:  stuntman"

so maybe i overreacted

but in my defense, the t-wall was being kind of a dick.

the camera doesn't even have a flash; that light is raw energy being released from the impact.

the saddest story ever told

i was crying by the time i finished the second paragraph.

mind you, i was crying because i had punched my computer so hard that it turned into an amiga.

with rye, no less

this is what i've been telling you, people!

Amman it

I'm sitting in Queen Alia airport right now waiting to go to Dubai, so I figured I'd give y'all an update.

I discovered three interesting facts about Amman on this trip.

1. It is one of the most boring cities on the planet (it feels like a new discovery every time)
2. They have never heard of St. Patrick's Day (boo!)
3. It is somehow possible to travel from any point in Amman to any other point in Amman downhill the entire way.

Turns out Amman is the exact opposite of the town my father went to grade school in.  I left the front of my hotel, walked downhill for fourty five minutes, and somehow ended up in front of my hotel.  The Jordanian technological advances scare me.  After I got back to my hotel, I was just glad I didn't go the other direction when I left, which brings me to my thesis.

Kevin, why didn'tyou just walk to school the other way?

Working out, or hardly working?

I'm actually a fan of workout classes.  I feel like they add an element of responsibility to my workout; like someone is expecting me to be there and I will disappoint if I don't show up.  Television workout shows, in theory, should be no different of a workout.  I have always made fun of the bad ones on the Pentagon Channel, but it occurred to me today that I have never put my money where my mouth is.

When I was channel surfing, Fit for Duty was just starting, so I decided to grab the fat ring and give an episode a try.  I threw my workout clothes on quickly and hopped into the warm-ups.  This episode was entitled "Cardio Kickboxing".  I got a little worried because I've only done cardio kickboxing once and it was... not fun.  But, I'd already put in the effort of changing, so I just went for it.

I didn't sweat.  I didn't have to turn up the air conditioner.  It was the most pathetic thing I have ever seen.  How can you call it cardio anything if you don't even work up a sweat?  I feel like I would have done my body more of a service by using that half-hour to lay in bed eating Cadbury Cream Eggs while watching Grey's Anatomy.

Pathetic; now fortified with justification.

Our culinary delights

Elisa and I had a delightful dinner last night at the Arabian Nights Restaurant, and I thought that all of you should know.

Today's Woot! - iMate Momento Digital Picture Frame

I just bought two!

This digital picture frame Woot! is selling today looks awesome!  It has WiFi, and I can set up an account so all of you can send pictures directly to it and they will just pop up for me.

It's normally $240 at the cheapest, so you should buy, like, a dozen, too.

UPDATE:

Here is a video review by a somewhat annoying girl and an EXTREMELY annoying girl.

Actually, I think the somewhat annoying girl might not even be annoying at all.  Maybe it's just proximity annoyance, you know, the same way the moon doesn't actually create light, it just reflects the sun's.

Here's another, more technical review.