Bowling for Columbine was sooo bad. I almost couldn't watch the whole thing. It worries me that people like that fat bastard live in this country. The only worthwile part of it was the segment about all the global attrocities, and only because the knowledge of such events haven't reached every citizen. i'm sure some people would think that it was ( Read more... )

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what I'm feeling is some sort of primitive, animal instinct. I think I'll stick to beating it down and acting civilized. competition is for animals...beasts in some field on the sarengetti plane. I don't do competition, and I think less of those who do. we don't fight for food, territory, or mating rights. i hate "the game". i refuse to play. i'll ( Read more... )

today I: got lost again, but found the coffee machine which is my landmark, vaporized yttrium, barium flouride, and copper by electron beam in a vacuum chamber, sat around and whatnot, dropped more science in the afternoon, went kyaking. it was fire.

i woke up at five in the AM in a small but comfortable hotel room in Siem Reap, a small town in northern cambodia. the night life in this area consists of a small, quiet bar on the main street with two or three locals sitting around talking about things that only someone from this continent would understand and listening to "rain drops keep falling ( Read more... )

Cambodia is much more like what I had expected out of south east asia. of course, nobody can ever visualize things the way they actually turn out, but it is more along the lines than was Thailand. Perhaps it is because the average yearly income per family here is $260 US ( Read more... )

The major companies represented here from foreign origins are American, with the exception of Vespa Scooters (Italian), all automobiles (Japanese), and beer (Heinekin from Holland and Carlsberg from where?). seven elevens are all over the damn place...mcdonalds, burger king, and KFC have all made a name for themselves...and all media entertainment ( Read more... )

this full moon party thing was pretty incredible. I'm guessing there was somewhere between 3 and 6 thousand sweaty bodies crowded ass to ass the whole stretch of the beach last night ( Read more... )

We have now traveled by air, land, and sea, and in that order. After hoping a bus out of bangkok at 7 pm on the 13th of this month, we arived in the small town of Serat Thani, at about 5 am. The bus was nearly entirely full of westerners (or farang, in the local tongue. incidently, almost all of the farang that the Thai people come into contact ( Read more... )