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 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 […]

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 […]

New Moroccan Photos
Page two of the album has some cool pictures of the city.
Second Album from 14Jan07
City shots and some grocery store shots. The grocery store is the expensive version, so I won’t be shopping there much as my language gets better. I took the pictures there for reference.
Madness!

All photos taken with my Treo, which is working now!!!
Common apartment maze (not mine, but nearby):

Looking at the city from a hill nearby last night:

Lady at Maroc Telecom helping a customer (not me):

Common street scene with random couch on the sidewalk:

Smurfy flea market:

Dinner in my apartment tonight. Take special notice of the Coca-Light!!! The almond […]