Found A History Of Punctuation via boingboing, good history read, but what it triggered was a childhood memmory of this show that used the interrobang
Does anyone remeber it? It was these two boys who would travel around Europe looking and that sign would be located everywhere. I think it had something to do about a secret society or something.
Anyone?
Well seems the government is ready to start the Bubyan port project. This will be a very big thing in Kuwait and it has been something in Kuwait’s history for long time. The Ottoman’s, the British, Iraq, and the US have been persuing this for ages., since it will be a gateway to the Gulf.
This project is going to last over 30 years and be a huge multi-stage construction process. Which is
strange since according to After doing some more searches I found this Arab Times Article on the Bubyan Project and the natural concerns there.
“One of the rare breeds of birds like the Crab Plover has1 , 600pairs breeding on Bubiyan. The next biggest population of these species is about 40 pairs.” He said there are about 18 other species which breed only on Bubiyan Island. These include falcons, flamingos and gulls. “Most of the world’s population of birds breed here making it the most import breeding ground in the whole Western Paleoartic - UK, Central and Western Europe, Turkey and the rest of the Middle East,” Dr Loughland emphasized.
And Bubyan also meets 4 out of the 6 criterias to make it a protected habitat and finding a place that just meet 1 of those criteria is rare.
I hope the government is planning is right and not destroy our natural wildlife.
Something for you vodka nuggets out there!
Alex Abramovich is doing the daring, he is actually find the best vodka. So after 11 types vodkas and
after a two day hangover he gives us the results in his article Hit Me W
ith Your Best Shot - Which vodka is the best?
Was just talking to my friend who just came from the States and is used to the driving and manners ove
r there and can’t deal with the drivers here. Saying “they all have road rage! we would get stuck in 2
hour traffic and be ok about it”. This got me saying “yeah in the States you have good radio stations
, telling you where the traffic is, keeping you entertained and laughing and your mind off the traffic
“.
Which is true, there you got choices in terms of music, radio personalities, talk or sports. There is
something for everyone. So when your stuck in traffic or on the road you dont mind, because the DJ jus
t played your favorite song, or made a good joke. or the commentary on last nights game is keeping you
mind away from the traffic. While here in Kuwait you got personalities like Dr. La Bouche AKA DLB.
This is the one thing that I can say is dfferent about Kuwait and the US, the radio. We have the same
or even better roads, same cars, and lets not talk about driving style. Every place you go has horribl
e drivers, this is something also common. Yet the only thing different we have is the radio.
Like I mentioned before I dont listen to 99.7. I found great replacements. But I would much rather listen to another Kuwaiti radio
station that would rival 99.7 and create some changes in their line up. Hopefully with the creation o
f Rai TV in Kuwait, a new private television station. A private radio station may not be that far off.
Lots of my friends get lost in Kuwait, since they are so many way to get to one place as well as the random shortcuts people pick up over their time here. So here is a good street map of Kuwait. I also have a larger scan of it thats 1.5mb if anyone needs it.
Update: Forzaq8 has posted in the comments this amazing website Baladia - Kuwait Electronic Guide, which is Kuwait’s Mapquest. It is a bit buggy but it really is amazing. It lists schools, mosques, commercial areas, street names and etc. It even gives you search options and direction and shortest routes between two points. Only problem I have with it is that most of the features only work on IE, but I dont mind running IE for this page!
Update 2: I do not have the larger scanner of the file. I had a computer error and the file was deleted.
dth="225" height="200" align="left">We got it easy, we have satelite and over 100s of channels, we
got the internet and access to all sorts of information and boring stuff to keep us entertained. We e
ven have cars to get out of where we are and visit someone else.
So imagine these people who I dont think even had gas lamps. They would sit around and make
shadow puppets for entertainment!
Big thanks to the Gutenberg Project for archiving and sharing t
hese gems.
[via BoingBoing
Last night while doing a radio search for stations in the car I picked up 104.3. This is Army stations
and sometimes comes and goes. So hearing it again was pretty cool, they were doing a live broadcast o
f a college football game. So today around 13:00 I decided to do a scan for it and I heard the opening
theme to Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. It was like bring taken back to the states
when I used to listen to this on NPR on sundays.
So now moved 107.3 which is Radio Monte Carlo out and replaced it with 104.3.
My current listing of Kuwait radio stations:
87.9 Classic Arabic Music
95.7 Radio Al-Hurrah
96.9 Voice of America
101.1 Audio of Kuwait TV
103.7 Arabic Hits
104.3 Arm Forces Radio
As you see I avoid 99.7 like the plague, and so can you! Say NO to 99.7
Another fun Sanrio product! A Bluetooth Hello Kitty Headset. It is totally si
lly, cause its just an ear piece with a microphone dangling down to your collar.
I would have much loved it if it was just the face of Hello Kitty covering up your whole ear. I can ju
st imagine the looks I would get with that on my ear and wearing dishdasha in a board meeting.
I’d still be inclined to get it just cause of the gift box it comes in.
Well I just got back and settling in with life and stuff catching up with the week of work thats been in the office and remeber that I am leaving again on Tuesday to Spain. This will be another 4-5 day trip, also business.
There won’t be driving in this one, just flying. I get to stay a night in Madrid, but would rather spend a day and go see the musuems they have there. Was ther ein teh summer and got to see a Dali exhibition and Picasso’s Gernica. The Gernica was special since I even visited that city just a couple days earlier.
So now I got to get all my work done that I have pending, cross my “i”s and dot my “t”s and all that o
ther stuff. Also trying to remeber who I know in Spain. There is a friend of a friend that I can contact that I can contact in Madrid. It just depends on how much time I have.
Also my parents are now it is saying it is time for a new car. I love my car she has been good to me and I am waiting to push her to 300000km I got to be there for that rollover. It is at 278something now
I am just almost there. I remeber when it did 250000 and that was a great feeling.
The car I would love is “Bo Shaneb” it is just a power horse. For a classier approach the Audi A7. It was orignally a concept called the Pikes Peak but they are saying it is coming out in 2005 as the A7. If thats not possible then has to be the Audi RS6. I have a thing for station wagons and well I need the room for my work and life. The people who seen my car know that I pretty much can live out of it. Then when you add the RS6 engine to that baby, just makes you think lots of happy thoughts.
