General — nibaq's Flickr on June 18, 2008 at 6:10:16
I really hate this place. Every time I pass through I feel like I am in a refugee camp. Just as soon as you are bused into the terminal. You are faced with the hoards of people lining up for security with the look of confusion. After that they are all lined up on the edges of the terminal. From the ones just passed out to complete tribes all huddled up waiting for their name to be called to escape this purgatory.
Screw this place.
As soon as I left the plane I was hoping for a blue sky and just colors we been devoid of in Kuwait. No such luck its just as bad here but add a tinge of fog and that stench of humidity.
Currently at the business lounge thinking I would escape the horrors of the terminals. Its just as bad in here as it is out there but add a clean shower to the occupants and freeze dried food and alcohol. Might as well as hand us SOMA pills.
Muhammad Hawas of Saudi Arabia poses with his Damascene goat, or Maaz Al Shami, named Qahr, which won the first prize for the “Most Beautiful Goat” title at the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh
Laos is the most bombed country on earth. The US dropped 2.4 million tonnes of bombs on it during the Vietnam War - more than the allies dropped on Germany and Japan combined in World War II.
This was quite shocking to me, since anytime you watch anything about WW2 and they talk about the allied bombing raid they always reference the Dresden Bombing raids as one of the worst in the world.
The raids saw 1,300 heavy bombers drop over 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices in four raids, destroying 13 square miles (34 km²) of the city
General — nibaq's Flickr on June 5, 2008 at 9:17:54
Really enjoyed reading this comic strip. Giving a interesting perspective of a war correspondent traveling to Lebanon, Afganistan, Hawaii, Timor and then to Somalia.
As a comic it captures some of the little things that dont get mentioned in the news papers or shown on the news. As well as he own account of it.
Reading a article about Chris Farley adn this intrigued me:
Farley’s meatier talent almost won him an intriguing alternate film career: the lead in The Cable Guy, the Amish bowler in the Farrelly brothers’ Kingpin, the voice of Shrek (in fact, he voiced most of the film before his death; Mike Myers revoiced it a year later), and—most tantalizing—the lead in a David Mamet drama about Fatty Arbuckle, the silent-film megastar whose career was ruined by false accusations of sexual assault. Unfortunately, a mercenary Hollywood system locked him into terrible movies, and seems to have triggered his final collapse. After reading a particularly terrible rewrite of Beverly Hills Ninja, Farley relapsed. (Later, he wept at the screening.)
Talk about someone that really was cut down in his prime. He had so many options and abilities but went the other way.
