My home

I have been working at the CSES for about 3 months now and I haven't got a name on the door, so I decided I would use my time wisely and make one. Now this required me to think very carefully about what I do at work. Essentially I push a mouse around all day. In a more global sense I create or sometimes if luck is on my side I recreate data. I give it a little extra flair - a touch of evil. Hence the title of my cage, oops, I mean room. After posting the sign on the door noone noticed.

It took three weeks for anyone to notice. I guess the boredom of statistics transends my room. Then someone must have noticed as people started to ask me if I would like to be paid in bananas, which amuses me. Now anyone who really knows me, knows that scotch or vodka would be the appropriate currency.

Whoa!

Last Thursday night I was invited to share my experiences in the Mekong Delta. I had a good time however I was curious as to why every story I told started with after drinking x amount of y, then main point of the story. I am sure I did more than just drink in my time in Vietnam. Well anyway Friday was hell, because the night before I drank too much wine. The head was throbbing all day and my concentration easily departed from the task at hand.

Trying to find some photos of the crocs that escpaed in Hue and filling the flooded town with fear, I want to offer Tyler some advice if he meets one. I want to let him know about how we handle crocs down here below the equator. Now you have all seen The Crocodile Hunter, and I just want you all to know that it is a little Hollywoodised. You don't need to go to the bush to find them, they are in all the cities here. Anyway, also when we catch them we cut them up and eat them or make boots out of them a la Crocodile Dundee.

Sometimes we are not so lucky and the croc gets to eat the steaks.









Anyway I came across this picture which took my breath away with how amazing it is. I found it like one of those pictures on perspectives where you look and see an old woman for about 10 minutes then bam! you find the young woman and the old woman left the building.

I really am not sure if this is a true rock formation or just some photoshop trickery, yet I like it. Just in case you are having trouble with seeing it below is the bam! factor.

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Have you ever wondered what is after your site when click the Next Blog>> link at the top of the page. I satisfied this curiosity today by clicking it. The first kind of amused me. Being an economist, and thinking about everybodys' belief of what an economist does (he/she really studies chooses), as I perused the title and all the links to making money (http://moneymoneymoney247.blogspot.com/).

I reloaded my page and proceeded to click the link again. My first thoughts are these things targeted. It was about cycle tips (http://bikecommutetips.blogspot.com/). I am thinking about buying a bicycle and recently looked at some adds.

The third time left me at http://esbboston.blogspot.com/, and this was right out in right field. I had no idea what this was and spent some time poking about. It is a site which is similar to most peoples I look at which was interesting.

The fourth time I arrived at was another advertising site for health products (http://healths-club.blogspot.com/). I had zero interest and without thinking pressed next blog and landed at what I think is another targeted site, http://mjnisselius.blogspot.com/. This site was an English language site, sorry guys no lesson plans that I saw, just book reviews.

The last one I guess was setup for ice hockey fans - http://duckswire.blogspot.com/. I had no interest whats so ever. I was hoping that maybe I would end up at a blog of one of my friends or the others that I read. What I found from this activity is that it is possibly random or targeted I am 50 - 50, I found one site I might look at again (time permitting), and I just wasted about 30 minutes of my life.