Monthly Archives: March 2009

Herod’s Temple

This is cool. The 30 year time frame makes me cringe.

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Funeral in Angola

We passed a funeral today. Unlike in the US, an Angola funeral procession includes standing in the road with knives, sticks and axes and asking every passing car for money. I didn’t know this and got a little worried about … Continue reading

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Training Africans

Part of my job duties include training locals to do my job. The problem is, I’m training idiots. We have formulas we use for the job. A common need is changing the hydrostatic. Hydrostatic is the weight of a column … Continue reading

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Back from offshore

And just some random thoughts I wrote down. I learned something about Russia today. Only Russian Men can handle explosives. It is against the law for a woman to handle explosives in Russia. I’ve been in a few post Soviet … Continue reading

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