Holy Cow!! It’s not exactly Star Trek quality yet (at least not at 20kbps) but oh my gosh, is video conferencing amazing! This evening I stayed late after work and waited till Tara got up (Pennsylvania being exactly 12 hours behind Cambodia). Signed onto ichat and did and audio plus video conference. Talk about technological [...]
The sensation of a big empty house, footsteps echoing off the walls, long nights with the TV casting eirry lights on the dim-lit walls of the living room. Yes, Tara and Araella are gone; off the grand ol’ USA and I am left to four weeks of surviving on my own. I’ll try not to [...]
To the uninitiated, Cambodian traffic may seem to be governed by a lawless chaos continually poised on the verge of disaster. While it may be true that disaster is but a hair’s breath away, it is not true that there are no laws. There are in fact 10 laws, and while unspoken, they are as unshakeable as a Cambodian mosquitoes on a hot night.
What Is It? Chitin (kai-tin), one of the three must abundant organic compounds in nature (along with cellulose and starch), is the structural material found in the shells of crustaceans such as shrimp and crabs, and also in insect shells and fungi cell walls. From chitin we derive chitosan (kai-toe-zan). Chitosan is a natural wonder. [...]
Today Araella was quite amusing when I came home for lunch. I picked her up and gave her a kiss on the cheek – a guesture of affection she has recently learned to mimic, though she imitates the kissing sound, not by sucking, but by pressing her lips to your face and then jerking her [...]