Archive for the ‘Americas’ Category
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Memorial Day Weekend was too much fun. (Before I go any further, since it was Memorial Day, and it's so easy to forget why we really have holidays, here's a picture of Los Angeles National Cemetery taken over the weekend. Wonder how long it took them.)
I spent the long weekend ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
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On the taxi ride, I thought I could get some shut-eye, but the driver kept talking to me about how people from Beijing and people from Shanghai have beef with each other because the former is the political capital of China and the latter is the business capital. And ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The other day, I was in a public bathroom and saw the other guy compulsively pull out three paper towels one after another from the dispenser. He hadn't even finished using the first one when he started crumpling the second one. By the time he flung them all into the ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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To shine some relief on this tense situation, please allow me a side-note. Onboard with me was a female friend (our other friends had gone in an earlier group) whose tandem instructor decided that it would be fun to scare her before the jump. I completely agreed.
What was I ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
When you're in Hawaii, skydiving may not be on top of your list of things to do, but we did it. And I'd do it again too. If only it weren't so expensive (yet totally worth it).
Originally, I was going to title this article “How to Skydive,” but what was ...
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