Archive for August, 2004

Unintelligible

Monday, August 9th, 2004

The most amazing thing about all of this is that the media still considers him able to hold office. The emperor clearly is naked as a jaybird…

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Frank’s Second Trip to Africa: Part 1

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

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A friend of mine, Frank Ordway, has been working with the U of Washington and a few volunteers to help AIDS clinics in Africa migrate from paper-based systems to electronic ones. This series is made up of emails he sent back while on his second trip to Africa. His previous trip is documented here.

I arrived safely, soundly and largely pain free in Kampala two days ago. 3 flights, (Seattle-Amsterdam-Nairobi-Kampala) in a total of 30 hours from Bellingham with 21 hours of flight time, we live in a remarkable age. I got exit rows all the way, including sitting next to another gentleman with a herniated disc and we took turns lying on the ground and taking pain pills. To give you a sense of my state of mind at the time, on the flight from Amsterdam to Nairobi I cried like a baby watching the Last Samurai.
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