April 2008
68 posts
waiting for a connecting bus in the absolute middle of nothing. not eating the fried grasshoppers I’m being offered, otherwise on schedule.
transiting through Bangkok tomorrow afternoon. then heading North thru Laos or directly to Yunnan by boat. visa troubles killed Cambo-Lao rt
watching the sunset from a sandbar in the Mekong. normally underwater during the wet season, the wet season is coming soon.
we are very seriously rained in and potentially lost or detoured, invited to take shelter in a stilt house, having tea.
met some very friendly freshwater dolphins this afternoon in the Mekong, of which there are fewer than 100 left.
staying the night in a village on the biggest island in the Mekong, now learning to cook an incredible Khmer curry.
took a wrong turn, but now I’m learning a Khmer dance from Cambodian aid workers (CRDT) in Kratie. tomorrow: dolphin watching in the Mekong.
crossing the Cambodian border along with new Japanese friend. my bus had rather pleasant music on it, very impressed, we even left on time.
New York Times Company Posts Loss. →
a $335,000 loss in the first quarter — one of the worst periods the company and the newspaper industry have seen — falling far short of both analysts’ expectations and its $23.9 million profit in the quarter a year earlier.
How all human communication fails, except by... →
by a Finn who has studied the readability of texts, organizations and communication within them, and the general theory of communication.
“In 1994, Dr. Adams became fascinated with the music of the composer Maurice...”
– A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity
by SANDRA BLAKESLEE in the New York Times
