Ramblings of a Hopeless KhowagaRamblings of a Hopeless KhowagaRandom thoughts and round up of the latest international stupidity. Plus descriptions of my travels to exotic and not so exotic places. Brought to you from Austin, Texas. Articles
Open Response to Matt
2008-06-09 02:49:00 There’s an interesting discussion going on over at Matt erdays, and I found myself wanting to weigh in without taking over the comment section of his blog for my own big fat political rant. This follows on the issue I brought up in my last post, namely that some supporters of Hillary Clinton find themselves unable or ... More About: Open , Response
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2008-06-07 07:00:00 Hot cheese bread: grip it and rip it! | King Arthur Flour - Bakers’ Banter More About: Links , 2008
Fighting Dirty
2008-06-06 17:45:00 Matt beat me out of the starting gate on the righteous indignation front this morning with his post calling out the die-hard supporters of Hillary Clinton who have decided that the most constructive thing they can do now that she’s conceding the race to Barack Obama is to instead vote for John McCain. I find this ... More About: Dirty , Fighting
Frenzied Media
2008-06-04 19:13:00 I just read with some bemusement Will ’s rant about the New York Times (it was about an article I didn’t read, although I did pause and go ” … huh,” when I saw the blurb). Will is concerned that the venerable NYT is attempting to capture a market share formerly held by the National Enquirer. Fear ... More About: Media
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2008-06-02 07:00:00 The 31 Places to Go This Summer With a little creativity and perhaps a willingness to stay closer to home, a great summer vacation is still within reach. Here are 31 options, from river rafting in eastern Oregon to biking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. More About: Links , 2008
Photos
2008-06-01 20:58:00 I’ve uploaded photos from my recent trip to Spain and Morocco. You can see them in the photo gallery (click on the menu above or direct link to the Spain/Morocco exhibition here). It’s a lazy Sunday here. Hope you’re all having a chill weekend! More About: Photos
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2008-06-01 07:00:00 Lambda Literary Award Winners 2007 More About: Links , 2008
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2008-05-31 07:00:00 Fighting Same-Sex Policy Seems to Be Uphill Battle Legal challenges to Gov. David A. Paterson?s plan to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions are likely to come thick and fast. But they face an uphill fight. More About: Links , 2008
Tea break
2008-05-30 21:42:00 photo credit: avlxyz We’ve discussed my predilection for caffeine addiction many times before, which is why I find it somewhat amusing that the latest drink that has sucked me in isn’t caffeinated (which means I can drink it at home in the evening, heh heh … ) I still haven’t managed to get through my photos ... More About: Break
Short ones are always the longest
2008-05-30 04:30:00 I’m talking about work weeks, what else? (Minds up here, kids, out of the gutter.) I’m 3/4 of the way through my first week back in the office, and despite my best efforts, I have actually accomplished a great number of things. The worst part of a business trip is always the paperwork that follows, and ... More About: Home , Short , Longest
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2008-05-29 07:00:00 Think Gas is High? Try Europe - TIME More About: Links , 2008
Meddling kids and that pesky dog
2008-05-28 17:49:00 Like much of the free world this past weekend, I went to see the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series (and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) in the movie theater, a pastime that I don't engage in much these days given the price of gas and the significant savings represented by renting hit movies the moment they come out on DVD. Ray wanted to have an Indy-thon as a lead up to the movie, but that didn't quite come to fruition. I did finally manage to sit through the entire Temple of Doom installment in one sitting - something I'd never done before -- and even managed to keep my P.C. sensitive, overeducated mouth closed during what were just ridiculously awful orientalist fantasies and negative depictions of the Exotic Other ... OK, I kept my mouth closed during the actual movie. Kate Capshaw did not, unfortunately, and if I never hear her squeal "Oh my gawd!" again it will be too soon. More About: Kids
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2008-05-25 07:00:00 Harira: Moroccan Lentil and Garbanzo Soup Time to start with the 'xperimenting. More About: Links , 2008
Results of the packing experiment
2008-05-24 16:38:00 And now, a few days later than I intended, are the results of the packing experiment that I outlined in my 12 of 12 for May. I just returned from a whirlwind business trip (got home last night) to southern Spain and Morocco during which I would need to dress somewhat formally for meetings, and a ... More About: Results , Experiment , Packing
Visions of Morocco
2008-05-23 00:00:00 I’m back in Madrid for the night, heading home tomorrow. It’s been a heck of a trip - not only have I got to wander around the medinas of Fes and Rabat, but from a work perspective (this being a work trip) it’s come out so much better than I could have hoped. A few photos ... More About: Home , Morocco , Visions
Death Taxi, or, le sepulchre volant
2008-05-19 19:26:00 There are a few things I’ve learned over the course of my travels around the world. Among them is something I’ve fashioned into a bit of a rule: never blog jet lagged. I’m about to break this rule, and you’ll see why I created it shortly. Soon after I wrote my last post, we arrived ... More About: Home , Death , Taxi
Afternoon Train to Meknes
2008-05-19 15:15:00 (note: I wrote this yesterday afternoon.) Currently hurtling across central Morocco on a train bound, eventually, for Meknes. We left Spain this morning. Spain was Spain - I need to eventually spend more than 36 hours in Madrid, because it’s a charming city. I hate doing blow-by-blows of what I did and saw, because it usually involves ... More About: Home , Train , Afternoon
Look, kids, Big Ben!
2008-05-17 17:27:00 When the idea was first floated that we rent a car in Spain, I had many worries. Spain still has one of Europe’s highest auto-fatality rates, and the drivers are notoriously aggressive. There were the narrow, winding streets. Endless roundabouts with the opportunity of getting trapped and never being able to exit, like the hapless Griswold ... More About: Kids , Travel
Planin? (Trainin? and Automobilin?) to Spain
2008-05-14 23:07:00 JFK’s new state-of-the art wireless communication device: A new day over Portugal: Madrid’s Puerta Atocha station: More later, including the results of the packing experiment… More About: Travel , Spain
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2008-05-13 07:00:00 Young Saudis, Vexed and Entranced by Love’s Rules - New York Times Young people in Saudi Arabia may chafe at the rules, even try to evade them, but they can be merciless in their condemnation of those who flout them too brazenly. More About: Links , 2008
12 of 12: May
2008-05-13 03:57:00 It’s time for 12 of 12 again! This is also my first ‘real’ blog post in a while - in times of stress, I tend to post infrequently, and then about stuff that doesn’t have anything to do with me so that I don’t have to relive the stress again. It’s what I do. Anyway, this ...
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2008-05-12 07:00:00 Rockin' the Casbah Next Stop - Stockholm Is More Than Abba’s Town Why We Travel - In Mali, S.U.V.’s and Camels Deliver the Fans The Columbus Dispatch : Jewel of a school Now 30 years old, Columbus Alternative High School has evolved into a point of pride for the district 36 Hours in Seville - New York Times More About: Links , 2008
Update
2008-05-09 14:41:00 After watching the death toll in Myanmar rise over the course of the week, I was relieved to finally hear from my college friend in Yangon this morning: My family is fine and we only had very minor damage to our house. It is all repaired now. I had a little more damage to my businesses but nothing that can’t be fixed given time. However, the devastation is incredible. I have not seen anything like it in my entire life. It is going to take months to get back to the original position. My only regret is for the people who suffered. The land was literally flattened. Our companies are donating what we can and the business community is really mobilizing their effort but as you know, it will not be enough for destruction on this scale. Sadly, the government of Myanmar (formerly Burma), one of the world’s least developed countries, seems determined to pretend that they can handle southeast Asia’s worst natural disaster in years all by themselves and is turning fore... More About: Update
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2008-05-09 07:00:00 Young Video Makers Try to Alter Islam’s Face More About: Links , 2008
Cool Coffedy Goodness
2008-05-08 15:09:00 photo credit: huong-lan I swear I’m really not trying to turn this into the ultimate coffee blog, it’s just sort of working out that way. Last summer, the New York Times ran an article about the virtues of cold-brewed coffee. It seems that the latest in Manhattanite metrosexual snobbery is that brewing coffee the old-fashioned away (i.e., with boiling water) and then icing it down Simply Will Not Do. No, if one wants real iced coffee, one must cold-brew it (I’ve also seen reference to the process as “cold-press”). I found this intriguing. Coffee is coffee, ain’t it? However, always one to hop on what the Manhattan gays are doing, during a trip to IKEA at some point during the fall, I picked up a French press (HüvúdstÃ¥d or somesuch) on über-sÃ¥le (with meatballs!). By that point in the year, however, it was a bit cool in the mornings for me to want coffee iced instead of warm, so the French press sat on the kitchen counter and collect... More About: Cool , Goodness
Still here
2008-05-06 23:01:00 I haven’t blogged much of late. There’s not a lot going on to talk about, and there’s some weird nerve thing going on in my right hand (either one wrist brace is less confusing than two, or everyone I work with saw my post and are now afraid to comment on them), so typing for ... More About: Home
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2008-05-05 07:00:00 Turkish Schools Offer Pakistan a Gentler Vision of Islam More About: Links , 2008
Take Time to Smell the Java
2008-05-01 15:21:00 Yet another friend from the bloggerverse has done the unthinkable: Brian is giving up coffee. (Well, specifically, he’s giving up Starbucks, but that’s his main/only source of coffee at the moment so it pretty much works out the same.) I’ve done this before — at the urging of my boss, who is something of an amateur medical … adviser guy … who had gone on at length (repeatedly) about how drinking caffeine dehydrates you, and it’s much healthier for you to not drink caffeine, yadda yadda yadda. In point of fact, it’s not the caffeine that does the dehydrating - it’s the fact that lots of people get their caffeine in the form of overly sugared iced teas, sodas, and beverages both hot and cold that may contain some sort of coffee product, but are not actually coffee, all of which will dehydrate you. I gave up the stuff and endured massive headaches for a week and a half, and then promptly went to the Middle East on a business tri... More About: Java , Time , Smell
The wit and wisdom of desperate coworkers.
2008-04-29 17:27:00 RamblingKhowaga: Did you see the story about the cute (that’s disgusting-cute) gay couples in the NYT? EvilCoworker: NYT? RamblingKhowaga: New York Times EvilCoworker: no EvilCoworker: I only read picture books RamblingKhowaga: … well, then never mind. EvilCoworker: (saved by my stupidity on that one!) RamblingKhowaga: yeah, it’s 10 pages of gay couples under 30 who got married. EvilCoworker: awww EvilCoworker: that’s cute RamblingKhowaga: and they’re ... More About: Home , Wisdom , Desperate
Denied!
More articles from this author:2008-04-28 18:43:00 I was banging out a long blog post when it happened. I accidentally hit the command-A (select all) combination and kept typing. Suddenly, my lengthy post had been reduced to the letter "t". And then it auto saved. No amount of swearing and yelling at the computer ... or hitting command-Z (undo) ... would bring my text back. It's OK. You probably didn't really want to read a long rant about the evils of standardized testing anyway. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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