Archive for September, 2008



Open Thread 33 Comments

Lost Comments So we lost the comments from last week till Thursday – I was transferring files from one server to the other and we lost it all. I am very very very upset by this because I am somewhat anal.

Adey Abeba 18 Comments

Irony — today makes 2001 in the Ethiopian calendar. It’s New Years on Sep 11th but here in the US Sept 11th is remembered for some else. I am not happy about this, Osama and the home boys picked the worst day in the Ethiopian Calendar to do this. I hope as we get going [...]

Elephantusker 12 Comments

I look up different thing all the time, thanks to Google – my brain full of numbers that might not mean much to my daily routine. Tusker is a beer in Kenya- apparently it’s the Kenyan version Heineken. This summer I made a call to a Jamhuri Guy in NYC to buy this Addis Ababa [...]

Save Sat Oct 11th Comments

Well atleast those of you in the DC metropolitan area, if you are not in the area that weekend may be a good one for you to plan to come to DC. Sat, Oct 11th is the day we saved for ‘Cocktails for Reading‘ – an event that is in between a cocktail party and [...]

No Mesgana Singers 18 Comments

My friend ‘wiki’ defines gratitude, appreciation, or thankfulness as a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive. After having lived in the US for years being expected to say ‘thank you’ at every turn, experiencing the celebration of the commercialized Mother’s day, Father’s day, and Valentine’s [...]