Back when I was in college I took off every Summer and went hitch-hiking to Canada. This is no small feat for a boy from Florida as Canada is at least a couple of thousand miles from where I lived.
However, Canada was then a lot more hospitable to Americans than America was, and I suspect [...]
I was interviewing an Xavier University 4th-year male nursing student who is keenly interested in SEO (Search Enginee Optimization), to do some work for me, and in the process he also “interviewed” me, asking a lot about what I thought about life in The Philippines.
(Normally, I take no part in hiring and firing for my [...]
On a recent visit to an expat American’s nipa hut residence, I witnessed what appreared to be a termite “bloom”. The local resident expert, another expat American, Jil Wrinkle, told us that what we were witnessing was a “termite bloom” and that it would only last about an hour, and then the termites would lose [...]
My brother-in-law said when he driving home last night he saw a snake in the road. I asked him why he didn’t catch it. Some snakes are valuable. Some are more valuable than others, but you really have to catch them first, so that you can ID them, otherwise they are gone.
A couple of weeks [...]
Another client came to town last week to visit our Philippines SEO Outsourcing business operations in Cagayan de Oro, and that meant a 2nd trip down the “advanced” course of the Cagayan de Oro River. We took four rafts for 20 people, plus we had two Filipino visitors from Sacramento, California, close to where [...]
I thought this sign was funny:
VIP Escorts with high powered firearms are not allowed beyond this point “Thank You”
This appears to be a sign sponsored by Colt 45 beer.
Is a Colt 45 (Browning pistol patent 1911) a high powered firearm? Not here in The Philippines, but a full auto M16 (caliber .223 is). [...]
The devastation of The Earth by the pursuit for renewable energy sources, namely biofuel.
I can’t help but notice there is a rice shortage in The Philippines and the government is having to import a shortfall of 2.7 million metric tons of foreign grown rice.
But there is no shortage of biofuel. I do not see much [...]
Correlation does not imply causation.
“Sleeping eight hours a day keeps you healthy and makes you healthy” is a good example of this type of causal fallacy. Studies show that the healthiest people sleep approximately 8 hours per day. I don’t argue with that. I do argue with the cum hoc ergo propter [...]
I mentioned this in a previous post “First Novel in 10 Years” , about the potential paths of future human evolution, but I would like to put that into more perspective. The evolution of human life is not only exponential, but exponential exponential. That is, the rate of change is increasing at a [...]
State of Fear, by Michael Crichton
I have just finished the first novel I have read in…in I don’t know how long. In ten years or so. I generally just stick to non-fiction. Good books are hard to come by in The Philippines. Sure there are some good book stores in Manila, [...]