When it is cold enough, lakes and canals freeze over and you can go skating on them. The dutch go crazy over this “natuurijs” (literally – natural ice, as opposed to artifical ice). On new year’s day, some of our team took it upon ourselves to sample this experience.
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I thought I’d wait a week so that the fact that I’m older really had time to sink in. How does it feel to be older? Well, it doesn’t feel very different really. I’ve been living in Holland for 59 days training for the 2010 Olympic Games. It’s not easy. As the previous post...
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Enschede This evening I raced on the ice for the first time. Here is what happened. Just in case there was any lingering doubt, this is NOT what is supposed to happen in a typical start
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My application for photo editor of the Spec… that never made it (note: MB = Managing Board) To MB or not to MB, that is the question, whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous deadline, or to raise eyepiece to eye, finger to shutter, and by opposing,...
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Joe Biden and she-who-must-not-be-named did debate recently on many issues. One of the issues that struck me was that of health care. It struck me so much, in fact, that my reactions to watching mentions of it on TV drew much attention at the bar at which I was viewing the debate. Any mention...
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This speech was prepared for the first meeting of the Columbia University Amnesty group, where I served as webmaster for one year. It was intended as an introduction to the world of Amnesty International including some of the history behind the organization. Hi everyone and welcome to the first meeting. First of all, can...
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With the 4x100m relays complete in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, one cannot help but wonder what might have been. Fortunately, the Jamaican men’s team fulfilled expectations and went on to win the gold medal in world record time, a feat which will survive history over the dropped batons. Obviously, in order to win...
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I recently completed a paid internship at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, which is based at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in the City of New York. It involved being the official photographer for the 2008 Summer Institute. What does that mean? I hear you ask… well, I constructed...
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News assignments are kinda cool, sports assignments aren’t bad either… but food… mmm…. Those who know me well know that I like food. I am capable of consuming copious amounts of it and, when married with a well-traveled and somewhat refined palette, this makes for an expensive combination. When the opportunity to go along...
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