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:
keywords: child endangerment, tinnitus, hillbilly
Eshkeet: Egypt-Sudan Border Crossing Fail
The journey from Egypt to Sudan had always been a demanding one. For decades the only route from Cairo to Khartoum was via an overpriced ferry on the Lake Nasser. The two governments recently made the wise decision to build an overland route minimizing boat time. Here’s a satellite photo of the civil engineering travesty that ensued:
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Phone Charger on the Bike
I got tired of my phone always being dead when I commuted on the bike so I decided it was time to install a charging solution. I had installed a pigtail for charging/maintaining the bike’s battery so I decided to use the same connection.
