Archive | July, 2009
July 27, 2009

Philly

Despite living on the east coast for eight years, I’ve never been to Philadelphia, so I decided to drive up there this past weekend and visit Moira, one of my friends from LSE. The first thing we did was eat a cheesesteak from Dalessandro’s. I forgot to take a picture of it, but it was [...]

July 26, 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26

finally going to see harry potter # the size of movie concessions these days is kinda insane. a large popcorn is like equivalent to an oil barrel. # writer's block like whoa # Never try and outsmart the DC metro. This isn't the Tube…you'll ALWAYS fail # Why does every tourist in DC wear an [...]

July 19, 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-19

Outside studying Russian…movie and Mex food later # Wait, WTF, Lance Armstrong is riding for Kazakhstan?!?! # Summertime and the livin's easy # I have a rare talent of getting lost with gps in hand # Suluguni acquired from Russian gourmet…gonna learn how to make khachapuri today # Powered by Twitter Tools.

July 13, 2009

Pyongyang or bust: Part III

The Arirang Mass Games are a go: North Korea will stage its Arirang mass games from August, its state media said on Thursday, likely opening an avenue for foreign tourists and currency to flow into the state hit by U.N. sanctions for its May nuclear test. Arirang, named after a Korean folk song, is the [...]

July 12, 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12

At bull run shooting center…car here has an "I love palin" sticker…lolz # @laurmkor thanks, I'll put it right next to my Dick Cheney shrine! in reply to laurmkor # shoulder is killing me…must purchase recoil pad # I am ready to retire # I truly loathe CNN # I don't know about you, but [...]

July 6, 2009

North Korean beer ad

The background music reminds me of something from a 1980s Nintendo game. North Korea’s latest launch is not missiles, but a TV advertising campaign for a locally-brewed beer. In a rare nod to commercial motives in the resolutely communist nation, the TV advert features a thirsty worker holding a mug of frothy beer. Young women [...]

July 5, 2009

Goodbye Movable Type, hello WordPress

I ditched Movable Type and am now using WordPress for this blog. I wish I had switched sooner, as WP is a million times better than MT. The installation was incredibly easy and the wide variety of WP plug-ins have simplified many tasks that were a major pain in the ass with MT. I just [...]

July 1, 2009

Dudes, update your RSS feeds for this blog

If you are subscribing to this blog’s RSS feed, please update it to my Feedburner feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtHomeInTheWasteland. I’ll be migrating this blog to WordPress sometime this month so the other RSS feeds will be defunct.