Jake Allen’s Ockhamist.com

Try the Morocco Diet today!
It’s easy! Just:
Walk instead of drive.
Don’t use air conditioner.
Don’t eat anything that has been to a factory.
Don’t eat or drink anything from 4:30 AM to 6:30 PM during Ramadan.
Do eat whatever you want from 6:30 PM to 4:30 AM. Really, knock yourself out. You can’t eat enough. The weight […]

I miss eating preservatives.
Madness!

I bought a new desktop computer last week. It’s great, a Moroccan brand, except that it speaks French and I don’t. When I um, buy a legal copy of Windows, I can get that changed. Until then, I just have . . .
Folie!!!!

I have more pictures to share from my trip to the mountains and the Sahara desert this week. Click the “Morocco_pics8″ and the 9, 10, and 11 for the different folders. Over 400 photos taken on my Treo 650.
Madness!!

I’ve got a new gallery of pictures. They are not well-organized by theme, but I’m using a new flash gallery program, so the load time on dial-up may be a little longer. Let me know if it works for you or not.
The photos do include the Roman arch that Patton stood in front of […]

I’m a bad blogger. I have so much to write, but am so lazy.
Madness!

Another ex-pat had a slingbox (www.slingmedia.com) from his brother-in-law, so we were able to watch high-quality streaming Super Bowl XLI over the internet. Ha. Purple Rain . . . Purple Rain. . ..
Madness!

Prince was actually rather disappointing. Madness!

I have a new gallery of pictures, with snow in Meknes (my city; second snow in 7 years; it’s COLD), me in Rabat ice skating and bowling, a small march by children for rain, and some more pictures from my trip to the mountains, including some of the best ones. The rain march by […]

I went to Rabat today, the capital city. We mostly spent time in the “MegaMall”. It was nice, but expensive. I went ice-skating, bowling, but most importantly, ate 2 triple cheeseburgers at a Quik and took home a large hamburger pizza from Pizza Hut. Almost took home two, but Pizza Hut has […]

New pictures of my trip to the mountains.

Madness!

I have some more pictures.
On or around 20Jan2007.
The ketchup is for reference. The homework is because it was already in the folder I copied. The town scene is Meknes, and the souk (market).
I see that the album software put an ad on there at the top. [removed ad]
Madness!

This guy from Slate explains why learning Arabic is so hard. A must read.
But the ferociously unfamiliar grammar sets us all adrift. Arabic is a VSO language, which means the verb usually comes before the subject and object. It has a dual number, so nouns and verbs must be learned in singular, dual, and […]

This is my assignment for class later today. I had to write a sentence for each vocab word on page 25 of my little book. I just wrote it myself, and still can only read it very, very slowly. Arabic starts on the right and reads moving left, of course. Even the question […]