At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

I gotta say, I was really surprised to find Russian Standard vodka for sale at our local grocery store (the one off Hwy 111 in Palm Desert). Now my parents can impress all their friends when they serve cocktails with some good vodka (not that Smirnoff/Absolut/SKYY junk).

- Ate In-N-Out – Ate a TON of Mexican food. Seriously. A ton. – Saw a bunch of friends – Took the Mosin M91/30 out to the desert to shoot a few rounds – Toured the “wind farm” in the San Gorgonio Pass – Completely ignored this blog and most e-mails – Etc, etc. It [...]

Some real winners in this batch.

Zookeepers at the Kaliningrad Zoo showed up for work one morning and were shocked to discover that their hippo had turned pink overnight. One onlooker told the Austrian Times: “He looks very pretty but that colour might not help him much when he gets around to breeding. He doesn’t look very manly.” Indeed.

Heeey, I coulda sworn the Bush administration said the reconstruction would pay for itself: Plummeting oil prices may force Iraq’s government to slow ambitious reconstruction plans, and the country could face a budget shortfall by next summer, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. “We’re in a situation where Iraq is … potentially going to be in [...]

I never thought this day would come. The CPC Consortium has finally agreed to expand the pipeline’s capacity, which will carry some 1.4 million bpd of Kazakh crude by 2013.

Because “I’ll have a half-liter of (insert beer here)” just sounds lame: The European Parliament voted to allow the continued use of the pint and the mile on Tuesday, sparing British drinkers from having to order half liters and Irish drivers from staying below 110 kilometers an hour. Before the measure passed, Britain and Ireland, [...]

No promises from Russia on production cuts, but I thought this was interesting: In a speech to the assembled OPEC ministers, Mr. Sechin said that Russia’s beleaguered oil producers had already pruned production in November, and could cut still more if market conditions warranted. But he gave no promises. Instead, he put forward a list [...]

I just received your most recent e-mail, in which you once again implored me to contribute to this fine institution of higher learning. What intrigued me about this particular e-mail, however, was that you asked me to donate money in order to support scholarships for athletes, including a basketball player named Travis who expressed a [...]

What the EFF?! I wish they would play this on WashFM (Christmas music 24/7)