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, AZ
Stony Brook, NY

My memory is getting fuzzy… I’m sure there are a few more places as well.

Many of these places (New York City, for example) I had extended stays over multple trips

2006 is getting out to a “great” start too
Hobbs, NM
Houston, TX
Boston, MA
Sunday River, ME
New York City, NY
Jamaica, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Decatur, GE
Miami Beach, FL

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 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.

Now the number of SPAMmy emails I receive is getting absurd. To be honest, I receive every email that’s sent to my domain regardless of whether it has a POP3 account associated with it, because I tend to use email pseudonyms when I register online (e.g. aa@nachoworld.com or crazymonk@nachoworld.com). Pseudonyms work quite well in cases where the evil corporation (American Airlines or crazymonk.org) decides to sell my address. I’ve caught a few unethical email sellers (I get some non-Morpheus related junkmail through musiccity@nachoworld.com) this way. However, even if I did simply get rid of my ‘catchall’ within the nachoworld.com domain, I would still be inundated. Sometimes spiders grab my Tufts email address from the public directory posted at directory.tufts.edu - I have never put my Tufts address into a web form. (Impressively there have been spiders that grab just Indian names from school directories in Boston and New York in order to send Indian party junkmail.)

When I used Eudora, I created a number of filters on my desktop client that deleted those SPAMful nachoworld.com email address messages as they came. The program also had a statistics generator which could tell me how many total emails I was receiving and the projected number for the year. I used to be impressed with that projected number. The problem was that the projected number for the year would rise every month. Now I use the full version of Outlook because it’s faster, but even now after I wake up and “check email” it takes a few minutes for the program to filter.

Now I pose this question to you guys. How many junk messages do I receive a day. I can guarantee no one will come close to guessing the correct number.

Right now, as a foot piles up in Boston, we are having a lightning blizzard. Poor cars that are stuck with spinning tires on Dartmouth Street. It’s a slight incline and it’s a major street. I hear the spinning tires outside my window about once every 15 minutes along with the crashes of thunder every half hour (which I first thought were snowmovers crashing the asphalt).

From sky-fire.tv:
Can there be lightning during a snowstorm?
Lightning is usually associated with thunderstorms, and therefore is thought to be a spring and summer event. Yet lightning does occur during winter, and even during heavy snowfalls and blizzards. Winter lightning appears to be unusually powerful, associated with loud and long thunderclaps. Sometimes associated snowfalls can reach 3 inches an hour. A man was struck by lightning during a blizzard in Minneapolis during March of 1996. He is still alive…and very puzzled.

From a meterologist from the National Weather Service:
I don’t believe there is any scientific name for lightning and thunder
during a snowstorm. That does happen occasionally in the wintertime, and
those events usually produce brief bursts of very heavy snow. These storms
are usually caused by a strong surge of warm moist air flowing over a dome
of cold air at the surface. Thunderstorms may develop, but temperatures are
such that the precipitation remains all snow as it falls to the ground.

• 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, deflecting them. JFK’s head exploded out of sheer amazement.
• Chuck Norris doesnt shave; he kicks himself in the face. The only thing that can cut Chuck Norris is Chuck Norris.
• more

Brian’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time video.

The map has become a lot more accurate. All of New Mexico isn’t covered by Albuqueque. People of Hobbs generally idenitify with Lubbock, TX, which is now a cultural center. Southwest NM is covered by El Paso, TX and northeast NM is covered by Amarillo, TX. Not only do these Texas cities provide the airports for these regions, but these peripheral towns of NM go shopping and chill in these relatively large Texas cities.

More interesting, though, is that the cultural areas of some smaller cities do not cover the actual city itself. People living in or just near Santa Barbara, CA and Portland, ME identify with LA and Boston respectively. It’s only when you get much further out from LA and Boston in the direction of Santa Barbara and Portland into the rural areas, do the cultural areas of Santa Barbara and Portland come into play.