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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
List of Places I Stayed Overnight 2005
I saw this list done on kottke.org, my brother’s site: kankanala.com, and a number of other sites recently. I’ve been posting this online since 2002, so no “via” link.
List of places I Stayed Overnight in 2005
Hobbs, NM
Boston, MA
Killington, VT
New York City, NY
Lima, Peru
Cuzco, Peru
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Beijing, China
Xian, China
Chongquing, China
Shanghai, China
Pittsburgh, PA
Albuquerque, NM
Phoenix, […]
36 Comments » - Posted in Lists by nach
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Monster Engine
A link from my past. This artist takes drawing from young children and recreates their imaginations with a more intense graphical interpretation.
25 Comments » - Posted in Internet by nach
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
The Boy is Back in Town
Finally no more interviewing…! I finished on Thursday but didn’t go out because that morning I woke up with a rich head congestion. It’s been a good couple months … a lot of sleeping on couches in order to save money but also a few perks like living on Miami’s South Beach for 2 days […]
24 Comments » - Posted in School, Tufts Med by nach
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
The Tortoise and the Hippo
Who would win in a race between a tortoise and a hippo? It’s one of the fundamental questions plaguing modern society. Until we can answer that, here are some pictures of a 100 year old tortoise adopting a baby hippo.
NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, officials said.
The hippopotamus, nicknamed “Owen”, and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.
“It is incredible! A less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a ‘mother’,” ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park, told AFP.
“After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together,” the ecologist added. “The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,” Kahumbu added.
“The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years,” he explained.
Apparently there’s a book out now about Owen and Mzee.
Pictures after the jump.
21 Comments » - Posted in Internet, Science by nach
Friday, December 23rd, 2005
SPAMtastic
A few years ago I wanted to write a post about how much SPAM I get. Sure, everybody gets a whole bunch of SPAM. Depending on the source you hear from, the average person gets 8 to 13.3 junk emails a day. Depending on the number of legitimate emails one receives, that’s a high percentage […]
37 Comments » - Posted in School, Internet, Tufts Med by nach
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
Pancake Rabbit
Ever wonder about the origin of the rabbit with a pancake on its head? Yeah, me neither. It’s supposed to be an intricate balancing act? Can’t you see it?
8 Comments » - Posted in Internet, Asides, Funny by nach
Sunday, December 18th, 2005
Interview Season
I’m on a two week tour of duty in New York City interviewing for radiology residencies. I’ll be back next week.
42 Comments » - Posted in School, Tufts Med by nach
Sunday, December 11th, 2005
Greatest Games of All Time
Gamespot’s Greatest Games of All Time. Unlike IGN’s list, this one is a running list and its associated benefits or disadvantages. I was pleased to see Actraiser on there.
22 Comments » - Posted in Internet, Asides, Lists by nach
Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Party of the Month
For his estimated $500,000, I hear that 50 Cent performed only four or five songs - and badly - though he did manage to work in the lyric, “Go shorty, it’s your bat miztvah, we gonna party like it’s your bat mitzvah.” Read on … the description of David Brook’s daughter’s Mitvahpalooza is hilarious.
9 Comments » - Posted in Asides, Funny by nach
Friday, December 9th, 2005
Lightning Blizzards and Thunder Snowstorms
Surprisingly very little can be found about lightning and thunder during snow storms. Growing up, the great lightning storms of the flat plains were amazingly bright and beautiful (and frightening), but the photographers knew that they would only get the best shots during the peak April-August season. Not really the time of year for snow.
Right […]
21 Comments » - Posted in Boston, Science by nach
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
Awkward Videogame Scene
Photoshop contest of awkward video game scenes.
6 Comments » - Posted in Internet, Asides by nach
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
Hurricane Names
Now that we’re up to Hurricane Epsilon in the 2005 season (which ended officially on November 30th), here are the previously retired hurricane names and future tropical cyclone names of the North Atlantic and elsewhere. Interestingly, the naming convention systems and types of names vary by region of of the world. It’s a safe bet […]
16 Comments » - Posted in History, Maps, Lists by nach
Thursday, December 1st, 2005
Firefox 1.5
Official version of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 out yesterday. I’ve been trying to get the Sage RSS feed reader working effectively but to minimal avail. I also added the medical dictionary search engine. I couldn’t believe they had it since it’s a relatively obscure, but comprehensive website.
19 Comments » - Posted in Internet, Asides by nach
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
Dot.com boom?
Single letter domain names being released. $1M+? Maybe I should have hung onto nwx.com.
3 Comments » - Posted in Internet, Asides by nach
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
Winter Schedule
My schedule for the next few months:
11/21-11/22
11/22-11/23
11/23-12/04
12/04-12/06
12/06-12/08
12/08-12/11
12/12-12/16
12/16-12/17
12/17-12/19
12/19-12/21 or 12/22
12/21 or 12/22-12/24
12/24-01/05
01/05-01/06
01/06-01/08
01/08-01/09
01/09-01/10
01/10-01/16
01/16-01/18
01/18-01/19
01/19-01/22
01/22-onwards
03/16
mid-April to mid-May
05/21
Hobbs, NM
Albuquerque
Hobbs, NM
Phoenix
Hobbs, NM
Boston
NYC
Stony Brook, NY
Boston
NYC
Boston
Hobbs, NM
HOUSTON!!!
Sunday River, ME (?)
NYC
Worchester, MA
Boston
NYC
ATLANTA!!!
MIAMI!!!
Boston (phew)
Match Day
Egypt/S.Africa/Botswana
Graduation
22 Comments » - Posted in School, Tufts Med by nach
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
Chuck Norris Kicks Your Ass
Facts about Chuck Norris:
The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, […]
27 Comments » - Posted in Asides, Lists by nach
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Tara Reid’s nipples?
Last Sunday’s episode of “Family Guy” just reiterates my love for the show. “The Simpsons” were never so brazen (but it was funny in another way). “Family Guy” gets its humor from the strange, absurd, or uncomfortable things that it shows. Like a 2 minute chicken fight, or the PBJ time song. But it’s clear […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Internet, TV by nach
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Google SMS
I feel like I’m on a promoting binge here. Check out Google’s SMS info service. It’s saved me at least one on the road when I was lost and needed directions (and didn’t want to lose 20 minutes by trying to find a gas station for directions). And I’ve used to figure out the the […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Asides, Technology by nach
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Sprint Messaging
I’m crazy excited. Sprintpcs forces you to use its website in order to text message someone (for free via the web). I was able to socially engineer (well not really socially engineer, more like convince) a customer service rep to give me the email address format to text Sprintpcs phones via email (1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com). This allows […]
63 Comments » - Posted in Asides, Technology by nach
Monday, November 28th, 2005
Cultural Influence Maps
An update to crazymonk’s link to Common Census is in order since the map has been updated many times since its post due to the number of links that it’s been getting from blogs.
The map has become a lot more accurate. All of New Mexico isn’t covered by Albuqueque. People of Hobbs generally idenitify with […]
