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.
The Personal Blog of Zach Heise
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In which Zach realizes that although Cycling Jordan has done many excellent trips over the years, they’ve never cycled thousands of kilometers across dozens of borders to share a message of peace from the Pope to the Emir of Saudi Arabia. And that’s exactly what the men and women of the Rotary Club’s Cycle Tour for Peace is doing.
In which Zach offers a fairly critical ‘mini-review’ of the Movenpick hotel and resort on the Dead Sea, but enjoys the mud and salt water for the second time. He shows the the Jordanian holy sites to his parents and has time to take his father to the EGT vocational training site, too.