Heya Santa Cruz Buddies!
I'll be down in Santa Cruz this weekend- does anyone know where the hippies-in-the-hills beltane event is this year? Is anyone going?
It's been years since I've been to a moon tribe or other such event.
It is time.

Hi friends!
I was delighted to see today that one Karen family I know and worked with has resettled in Australia.
You can read about the journey here ( Read more... )

From the one that never updates...
A night that will never be forgotten...
An Invitation You Dare Not Refuse!

My Grad-student Co-op is planning a dinner fiasco this Friday Saturday April 19th.
We get people to make their favorite dishes on a massive scale, and hijinks ensue!
I'll be making burmese tea leaf salad and two deep-fried turkeys, one ( Read more... )

Hey all, perhaps it would be more appropriate to post about my life since I escaped the Bangkok airport, but here's an amusing clip instead. Thanks to Tim for pointing it out!

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Wienberg looks DOES look like an ass, but not as intended :) he said "period doubling when a linear oscillator is strongly driven" I think he meant "non-linear oscillator" ( Read more... )

It is 1 AM, or 4AM it’s hard to tell, even if time passes at the same rate for all stationary travelers.  The floor of the BKK Check-in arena is relatively quiet. Only a few open terminals, at least 20 acres of open polished floors, and 50 feet of still air between here and the ceiling. A perfect place for blowing giant soap bubbles from the ( Read more... )

I've booked a flight to SFO ( Read more... )

The biggest deal at Mae La Camp is by far resettlement. About 20% of the population has been approved for resettlement, and applications are still being processed. People are leaving every day. I think the ESP where I teach may shut down in the next few months. The school has 4 teachers including me, and three of us have departure dates sometime ( Read more... )

Google Earth now has detailed photos of Mae La Camp where I work. I have put together a list of place marks, most of them including a few educational comments.

If you don't already have Google Earth on your computer, you should get it. It's free, and it's awesome.

Download my placemarks here.

Each rooftop you see is home to about 10 people.
The most ( Read more... )

June 8, 2007

As I walk the back trails of Mae La camp, sometimes the young children will spot me and yell Halagay! (Karen for good afternoon) or try a little English “Good morning!” “Hello!” or “Where you go?” Whatever my answer, they typically dissolve into laughter and try to hide behind each other. The youngest sometimes yell “Wakka ( Read more... )

            I walk from my house to the shanty neighborhood of crude wooden buildings and corrugated iron roofs amid the rice fields and drainage canals at the edge of town. I have recently been wired some funds to pay for the schooling of a not-quite legal Burmese immigrant brother and sister from Burma named Kenne’U and Pa Lay. I visited the ( Read more... )