Based on a concatenation of every poll that Gallup did in 2008 (a total of 350,000 people), there are only 5 states left in America that ca...

Not a particularly good day of work. My tax refund arrived today, which is cool. I've got some bills to pay. Epril insisted her evening ...

Are you smarter than some U.S. Congressmen? Take the test! Okay: Imagine that Guantanamo prison has been closed and the terrorists are ...

I'm really surprised at myself. It's only now, almost 3 months after the fact, that I realized that I had totally forgotten about th...

For the sake of full disclosure, I always write my daily reports first thing in the morning, the day after the fact, and then adjust the pos...

Well, actually it's a amalgamation of 220 photos using a robotic "gigapan machine" to create a single photo of President Obama...

Okay... this one you WILL laugh at: You've got 2 minutes and 20 seconds of Battlestar Galactica followed by the worst possible commerci...

Up at the usual time. Started work at the usual time. Ate lunch at the usual time (Susan cooked pork with asparagus). Had the usual afternoo...

Happy Birthday Momma Nila. It was my mother-in-law's birthday today, so it was out to the jungle for a nice lunch. I also spent some tim...

"What is important is to know how to listen... without locking oneself into ideological visions with the arrogance of a person who, hav...

Big Rocks Diner has great hamburgers, sausages, and fried chicken. That giant glass of iced tea is only 20 pisos... about 40 cents. After p...

Another uneventful day(time). We went to Yureka again for lunch. I haven't weighed myself, but I think that the combination of drinking ...

After typing "365 days x 39½ years" down below, I checked how many days old I am. Interestingly, my 15,000th day on earth is comi...

After John Stewart gave a side-by-side comparison of the many similarities between George Bush's "rhetoric" of the past 8 year...

Yes... today is the 1,796th day in my life where I did nothing notable. (Well, of course that number is open to debate. Some would argue the...

It was a pretty uneventful day today. Epril went out to a meeting with the other expatriates' wives. They are forming a charitable gro...

Do you know the origin of the word Yankee ? It's not 100% certain, as there are other theories, but is probably a combination of the ult...

This came out about a month ago, but there wasn't video on YouTube until (apparently) just after I tried searching for it. It wasn'...

The river is back to within its confines. At this place, during the flooding, the rushing water carved out a deep and narrow channel right n...

Saturday was a good day, if still rainy. For dinner, we went out to Kinse Amigos for bar-be-que chicken and pork. That place really is one ...

I'm sure you agree: It's hard to put into words the feelings that this video of the incredible outcome of the crash landing of US A...

Yes, yes, I know... If you're British: Stupid question. Little Britain came out in 2003, written by and starring Matt Lucas and Davi...

Epril admidst the donated goods. Epril and her friends with the local TV news anchorperson. Epril and her friends with one of the MOR deejay...

The results of this year's Web Log Awards are in. My favorite blog by Andrew Sullivan won "Best Blog of 2008". Nice. (Sadly, ...

It wasn't really raining much today... just sort of wet all over. And cold. Still. Epril went out and brought back some sushi from Yurek...

SlingBox allows you to send your home's cable signal to anyplace on earth by internet. SlingCatcher gets the signal from SlingBox, and w...

An uneventful day. It still drizzled and gusted and chilled all morning and afternoon. Finally in the evening the rain died down, but the ...

The Philippines has a great culture. I'd even say its vibrant, if too modern. The performing arts are a big part of every Filipino's...

Epril and I are going to put together an application and give it our best shot . Australia's Queensland Tourist Board is using the strai...

It's still cold. It's still raining. It's still windy. My cold seems to have ended and work this morning was pretty good. Epr...

We slept out in the jungle until 9:00 this morning. After a rough night of cold-related awakenings — in which I monitored the on-and-off rai...

My friend Geoff is selling his house in Pattaya. Here's a little bit about it . I've been in the house many times, and I think tha...

BirthdayAlarm.com , a website in which you get all of your friends and relatives to put in their birthdays, and then the site e-mails you a ...

It was raining when Epril and I woke up this morning. We had planned to go to Jasaan but didn't want to go on our motorcycle in the rain...

We didn't do much today, but we had Mike and Emilyn Bird — along with Emilyn's aunts, Mylene and Ardelyn — over for lunch. Mike and...