Archive for June 30th, 2008
How I Found Livingstone (and Stanley)
Monday, June 30th, 2008As a youth, I was a voracious carnivore for meaty travel and exploration books. I snatched up nearly any volume I could find on the subject and dragged it down to my parents’ den. That was well past 5 days ago, so any recollection I might have once had of the actual titles is long [...]
More Geek, please
Monday, June 30th, 2008Something tragic happened today. Today, I took a test and failed. It was the Geek Test. Yes, that is what it’s called. The Geek Test. No frills, just 17 mini-sections of questions designed to pick apart your brain. Okay, I didn’t really fail, because, how the heck can you fail a test which asks you [...]
Top three ways to get from Biblio.com to Nigeria
Monday, June 30th, 20081. I didn’t realize it last week, but for me the next few days were going to revolve around Nigeria. Before last week, if someone mentioned Nigeria to me, sadly, the first thing that would pop to mind was usually credit card fraud. 2. With that unhappy association in mind, I was delighted when a [...]