How many times have you rolled a car’s odometer over a hundred thousand kilometers?
Hatari Umeme
I’m not so sure about this electrical connection in the meter box at my new house:
Kampala Flooding
After less than an hour of rain, the Clocktower Roundabout in downtown Kampala was badly flooded.
Gnarly.
Local-Brew Street View
As part of our commitment to transparency in everything we do, my current employer Sub Saharan Drilling has launched a program of putting online Northern Uganda’s biggest ever set of geo-referenced photos.
Good morning, 2014
The sun came up extra red over Uganda this morning to mark the new year:
Egypt-Sudan crossing update: more buildings
The satellite images in Microsoft’s Bing mapping service show some recent activity at the new border crossing between Egypt and Sudan. 
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The Perils of the Pacific Coast, Part 2: Folks
All politics are local, and there’s nothing more political than road signs. Here are a few that made me chuckle.
That stretch of washboard gravel logging road sure was one of the cleanest I’ve seen in a while, but I don’t know anyone who’d call it a “highway.” Continue reading “The Perils of the Pacific Coast, Part 2: Folks”
The Perils of the Pacific Coast, Part 1: Fauna
Twas brillig in the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. Beware the T-Rex, which here is seen to tyrranize my Truckasaurus:
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Quick-n-durty varnish brush
I wanted to re-coat my chair with some fresh tung oil and couldn’t be bothered to clean a real brush so I hacked together this field-expedient “brush” from an old t-shirt, a wood scrap and a few staples:
Step 1: cut a strip of cloth
Safety First … for Young Ears
When Ted and I drove by the Stumptown Brewery we saw that something was amiss: parked cars lined the road for hundreds of yards in either direction. We went inside and stumbled on the 11th annual “beer revival,” a celebration of all that is classy and wholesome:
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