If you’re going to San Francisco…

11Oct09

Read here one guy’s take on SF. but if you don’t feel like reading the entire thing, pretty much this is a guy who moved to san francisco a few years ago and works in the tech industry.  the essay tries to be balanced, but overall, in his view, the negatives of sf outweigh the [...]

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today i wrestled a 90 pound asian girl

08Oct09

today was a different kind of day. it started out as most days have started out:  me, waking up to the cries of some demon possessed rooster about an hour before my alarm, contemplating coffee but the press is dirty and i don’t want to clean it, trying and failing to get on the internet, [...]

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details

07Oct09

these days, the details seem a bit hard to grasp.  i resort to lists, mundane recollections of whatever details remain, hoping that they will add up to a memory that i can hold on to and say, this is what i did.  so that is what i’ll do. – i just ate two bananas, finishing [...]

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Some Poverty Action

02Oct09

Somehow, I arrived on time in Ghana with all my luggage. I remember very little about the details of my last trip to Ghana 6 years ago, so I’m feeling a lot of deja vu (great movie) quite a lot these days.  (These days – I’ve just been here two days!)  Eventually the memories come [...]

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Tags: development, fear, food, ghana, microfinance, western influence