I sure picked a good time to be in Turkey. For starters, they really don’t like us Americans here:
Turkey ‘most anti-US country’ in world, poll says
and it’s really hot! I haven’t been able to sleep well all week. Fortuneately I am getting air conditioning in my room in the next few days. I actually [...]
So, as I said before, I put a small blog traffic tracking program on my blog to see who views my website and stuff like that. So here is a quick rundown of the infromation that was collected:
In the past week I had 102 visitors and 800 hits (I think this means that each [...]
You would think in a hot country, shorts would be very popular. Sadly this is not the case, here and in many countries around the world, men wear pants, no matter how hot is. I asked Izzy why and he gave me this explanation, which I have read online, and is true of many countries.
When [...]
Current Mood: Angry & Sad & SicklyYesterday Murat and I took our first day of windsurfing classes. It was hot and sunny, with not too much wind. These are arguably excellent conditions for learning to windsurf. We left work at around 1700, and after a quick stop at home we arrived at the [...]
Here are two videos I took over the weekend. One is all the Turks partying on the bus, the other is of me vaulting over the railing and plunging headfirst from the top of the boat into the water. It was a lot of fun.
jumping-off-the-boat.mov
Partying on the Bus to Cesme.MOV
Current Mood: EsctaticOn a whim I decided to go to Izmir this weekend. I am not sure why, but I didn’t feel too much like sticking around Istanbul, so I bought an extremely over priced plane ticket and took the 55 minute flight to Izmir, in the south of Turkey. For the purposes of this [...]
Current Mood: PlayfulSo, once again, i am going to cop out of writing anything of real interest to you, and instead tell you about the new software I just added to my server. It’s called slimstat and it can be downloaded and used on any blog by clicking here. Slimstat allows me to track hits [...]
Current Mood: BoredThis is the post that many of you have been waiting for. I hope you all appreciate how much time it took me to do this entry. I admit, the photomerges are not very well done, but there were a lot of them and I had to resize everything! In other words, it [...]
Yes it’s true! Roberto Carlos (if you don’t know who that is look him up on wikipedia) is going to start playing for Fenerbache, a soccer club here in Istanbul, next year. Fenerbache recently won the Turkish championships on their 100 year anniversary. They closed the season by announcing the deal. Check out the CNN [...]
I had some free time so I made an album with pictures of some of the places I have been and some of the places I have gone before 2007. Enjoy:
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