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.
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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.
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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 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 […]

New pictures of my trip to the mountains.

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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 […]

A certain Kevin sent me a link to the New York Times’ article “Under Morocco’s Spell,” which I share with you now.
 
It speaks of the Berber people, whose lives are often overlooked in tales of Morocco.
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More here.
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From a small rural library in central Florida with a very worn keyboard (keeeeeysss stiiiicck) and 800 x 600 monitor (”the letters are so big!”), I read on Peter Krupa about the ArmsControlWonk, who has some good data and insight about North Korea’s FAILED nuke test Sunday night.  The news I’ve been reading on my […]

I leave Louisville today. Bye.
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Peter Krupa got married. Cheers!
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I used to delete my spam folder every so often after a quick survey to see if anything I wanted got through, or to see if there were any really good deals on male enhancement, or to see if I could refinance at less than prime, or to see if anyone from the third world […]