More rain, more raw sewage. This time 2.26 million gallons. Way to go San Diego, we are #1! Hah: Recently, we at GeorgeWBush.org happened to notice that our mail server had a default “catch-all” mailbox, which for the past several months had been quietly gathering any and all e-mails addressed to [INSERT-ANYTHING-HERE]@georgewbush.org. We felt the …
Author Archives: Chris Nelson
Hobbits
Wow, this is pretty amazing stuff: Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world… The 18,000-year-old specimen, known as Liang Bua 1 or LB1, has been assigned to a new species called Homo floresiensis. It was about one …
Horrible taste
Uhg. I forgot to mention one of the worst parts about the whole LASIK deal. The drops for your eyes eventually work their way down the back of your throat (eyes -> sinus -> throat). And the meds taste really, really bad.
Ahh! The laser is in my eyes!
I had wavefront LASIK done on Friday morning. It was an interesting experience. They gave me one last check out, then I got to wear a fancy hair net and take a valium and a vicodin. My metabolism is painfully slow, that turned out to be a literally true. When I went into surgery the …
Narco Corridos
From BBC: Narco Corridos. An interesting article on the music aspect of the smuggler/drug/gang culture of Mexico and the US. It has been a bit of a culture shock down here for me in this aspect. You see guys drive by in pimped out cars with big stereos blasting music. But the music is not …