some time in february carey and i were eating cheap pizza in buenos aires and reading the paper. we found an article describing a gold rush going on somewhere in the jungle of brazil, where miners were finding gold so pure they were not even using mercury to separate it and were reaping anywhere from eight to twenty thousand dollars a day. the ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago I went to the market and all the stands were in disarray and half empty, the market looking rather desolate and apocalyptic. I thought it still had something to do with the recently passed Day of the Cross, during which all of the crosses in town were covered in garlands, candles and cloth and all of the people in town got ( Read more... )

howdy folks ( Read more... )

i guess i'm leaving next sunday. i'm not packed, i never got to go to the dentist, i'm not sure where i'm going other than where i'm landing (lima, peru), my website is not done...and the list goes on ( Read more... )

i forgot to add another thing to the positive list ( Read more... )

geez, a lot has happened, i think ( Read more... )

so, i'm graduating in a couple of weeks ( Read more... )

The coconut crab is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. It looks like this:


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Puerto Rico was nice again. I dug soil pits and swam around and got a swollen toe from a sea urchin. Also, learned about dry, high-altitude forests, which was neat. And I got to briefly explore a huge abandoned sugar refinery ( Read more... )

One of the more annoying things in life is obnoxious people. This species of people can manifest itself in many shapes and has evolved steadily in all types and levels of society. When this particular trait is coupled with other unpleasant characteristics the effect is, of course, double. Having spent a big chunk of today in the Penn library, I am ( Read more... )