Archive for the 'Thoughts' Category

Ochre Comments

Ochre is a deep golden yellow color and is one off my favorite colors. Banana Republic is famous for using it on many apparels.
The new thing for world travelers is Namibia — an oxymoron of old Africa vs globalization and modernization of post colonial Africa.
I read an article last week on the New [...]

3° of Separation Comments

The title is my own disambiguation of the more popular “Six Degrees of Separation” — influenced by an email conversation I had with a reader.
It’s such a small world aydel?
If I had a cent for every time I heard that one! I would still be poor; even so I have heard [...]

Calling Cards are Rip-Offs 37 Comments

If you have been to those mini-marts at a gas station or made a trip to ethnic store, you are more likely to see these brightly colored phone cards hanging behind the counter. The cards are usually sold in denominations of $2, $5, $10, and $20. Oftentimes, they are the only [...]

VIVA GB!!! 24 Comments

Back in February of this year, I decided to take a ten day trip to Addis in May. When I told my family and close friends about my planned trip the immediate question I got was, “why ten days, is everything ok?” Well everything was ok but I did not divulge the honest truth. [...]

Open Thread: 200,000 34 Comments

The number of people that came to watch Obama speak before the biggest crowd he ever had; 200,000 in berlin. The next biggest crowd was when he spoke in Oregon and 75,000 showed up.