I finally got the DVD from last year’s Christmas concert, a full eleven months later. Apparently the YWCA had been holding onto it pretty tightly; I had to call four different people in order to secure a copy, and only on the grounds that I would only have it for an hour – long enough […]

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In which Zach makes the terrible discovery that although toilet paper does look conveniently like a mummy’s wrappings, they are actually polar opposites. However, becoming a plaything for an overjoyed cat at a Halloween party made up for it.

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In which Zach joins the Anglican Church in a trip to Um ar-Rasas, a UNESCO-certified tourist spot in central Jordan that showcases ruins from both Romans and Byzantines, as well as one of the world’s most spectacular ancient mosaics.

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It’s been an interesting couple of days, by which I mean bad. After almost ten years of working as a technician including for both the University of Wisconsin and now here in Amman, I was (almost) beaten down by a virus. A particularly nasty one. When I taught my class, I would always teach my […]

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I noticed this afternoon that the WordPress Askimet spam counter for Heiseheise.com had a major milestone rollover recently: we’ve just hit our 10,000th spam comment. The wonderful spammers that clog and pollute the internet in general and blogs/forums in particular never take a day off. Here are some stats for my two and a half […]

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Link to original article. Pause for a moment after reading that. Let the bile clear from your throat. Think about where you’ve heard things like “no racial intermixing” before. Warning of the “dangers” of it, and how it’s an “unnatural phenomenon.” Things like America’s old Jim Crowe laws et al. come to mind, perhaps? How […]

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