http://anotherwastedday.com with my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:18:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Imported all the he.artbe.at posts just now. So if you didn't find them before (whomever you are, fickle fine-fingered reader), they're now here, too. I'm a packrat. http://anotherwastedday.com/?p=598 But I did write elsewhere this summer. Posts from he.artbe.at I'll try to move over here soon. And I haven't forgotten the sea, either. Joanna Newsom on my ears tonight, here at the shore. Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie http://anotherwastedday.com/?p=522 And such was the mantra repeatedly to me by so many people there: when the power went in the middle of the day for hours at a time in the township I was working in my last week there, Henry (my host, the medical clinic's only real IT staff, ... http://anotherwastedday.com/?p=596 Eash. The bike I rented yesterday, a sort of ungainly, beat-up cruiser (I paid extra for gears, but they were minimally useful), was as rough on me as I was on it -- I hauled about 60 kilometers on that rusty rented piece of shit today, and the top of ... http://anotherwastedday.com/?p=594 Because the Peebles Valley is a scant 20 minutes from the Numbi gate of Kruger National Park, the largest game reserve here in South Africa, we spent Saturday on a game drive. It was quite fun, often stretches where not much would happen but then you'd see something ridiculous (elephants ... http://anotherwastedday.com/?p=587 Thursday and Friday of this past week I had the excellent opportunity to go with a big group from Meraka to Peebles Valley, a semi-rural area about 4 hours away from Pretoria where there's a large AIDS clinic. There was a wireless mesh set up there to connect some of ... http://anotherwastedday.com/?p=585 Heading to the Peebles Valley out in Mpumalanga for the next two days, to do a site visit on a wireless network that's been set up there. This is the kind of thing that I really came out here for, so it's quite exciting. I should be back over the ... http://anotherwastedday.com/?p=581 Friday at 2pm Avery, Colin, Matt and I got in a rented 4x4 and headed for the hills. A few hours' drive from Pretoria is Lesotho, and we made it most of the way there by nightfall. Friday night we spent in a cottage on an asparagus farm -- not ... http://anotherwastedday.com/?p=571 Some of the most vivid scenes I've witnessed here I have no photos of: the piles of trash burning beside the road outside Mamelodi, the 300-odd Lesothoan highland villagers staring at us silently as we drove through, not knowing what we had interrupted. They are undoubtedly what will remain with ... http://anotherwastedday.com/?p=567 In a couple hours I'll be heading for Lesotho, the Kingdom in the Sky, with Avery & his coworkers Colin and Matt. We've rented a 4x4, I bought some long underwear -- this promises to be quite the trip. http://anotherwastedday.com/?p=566