Thailand and Cambodia trip notes

I spent much of February, 2004, travelling with my daughter in Thailand and Cambodia. Here are some notes:

http://hometown.aol.com/mikekr/myhomepage/Thailand.htm

Bush ruins marriage

George W. Bush has proposed increasing the federal deficit by starting a ten-digit federal program to improve marriage.

Given the past history of government programs, I'm predicting the percentage marriage stats will decline between now (2003 data) and when W leaves office.

(in line with W, I'm omitting gay marriage, "living in sin", second and subsequent marriages, polygamy, bestiality and anything other than one  man, one woman, of the right age, getting married before their first child)

Bush "Damned Lies" Sticker

Irregular Times took a suggestion of mine and made a bumper sticker out of it.

"Bush '04: Lies, Damned Lies, and Lies of Mass Destruction"

There are a lot of other items there which will amuse or infuriate you, depending on your political leanings. I get no royalties on this sticker, so pick any anti-Bush sticker you like.

Bicycle Commute Glenview to Chicago

I've posted pictures of my bicycle commute from Glenview to Chicago. It's an 18-20 mile one way trip, so there are quite a few pictures and a fair amount of variety to the route. Comments appreciated.

Thought for the Day

If we acknowledge the divine providence of the Lord in everything, the Lord leads us in agreement with our love for goodness and truth.

 

Apocalypse Explained 1174

Emanuel Swedenborg

Adopting a journalist?

Wired News reports “Some politically minded bloggers find a new way to keep themselves busy this campaign season: They "adopt" a journalist and track his or her every keystroke.” (by Noah Shachtman). 

Wow. That’s a lot of work. Somebody like Eric Zorn writes several columns a week, plus a blog. The Wired writer, Schachtman, isn’t suitable either. He’s done 227 other Wired stories.

I’d want to track somebody who didn’t write so much.

Somebody dead, so they can't suddenly go all productive on me.

I could find somebody being tracked by other people. So, I could comment about their commentary.

I wouldn’t want to do it on my own time. And, I wouldn’t want to do it where I had to hide the activity from my employer. Ideally, I’d like to get paid for this. That would be cool.

I’d like this job to be respected. I know the people I’m writing about just used regular names, but I’d like to be called .... Professor.

I guess this explains why academic jobs in the humanities are hard to get, even though the pay is low.

 

Mortality

A bad day for feeling young.
I tried the "clock test" for Alzheimer's on this page: http://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/symptoms/testing.html and my clock pretty much matched the description of early Alheimer's. So, I had my boss take the test. His clock looked exactly like the "good" example.

While waiting for the dentist, I read an article in Bicycling magazine which stated that high mileage cyclists are at increased risk of osteoporesis. I did over 5,000 miles in 2004.

The dentist spent a long time examining my tongue, muttered something like "Hmm ... might be precancerous." He took some pictures, and asked me to see him in a month. He might recommend a biopsy. 

I think I'll go to bed now.