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I Ate a Bug
First of all, Best in the Land is back. I’ve recently adopted a new posting schedule (twice a week on btyb, and best in the land, once a week to my pickup newsletter at Make Her Chase You, and twice a week to Life Nomadic including Todd’s posts). I didn’t want to post about it…
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Epson R-D1s Digital Rangefinder Camera
I knew I needed a digital camera for Life Nomadic, my 2008 trip around the world. But which one should I get? Point and shoots just don’t cut it. The trip was planned to bring me to some of the most amazing places on earth, and there was no way I wasn’t going to capture…
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Casco Viejo
Jose, our friend and the guy who rented our apartment to us, is a Spanish teacher here in Panama. He comes over a couple times a week and hangs out with us. It’s business and pleasure – we learn Spanish from him and we teach him about online business. He’s a lot more of an…
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How I Learned Chinese
From second grade until eighth grade I went to a private school in Andover, Massachusetts called The Pike School. It was awesome, and marked the last time that I thought: 1. School was worthwhile 2. School was fun It’s such an excellent school that when I have kids eventually I’d be inclined to move back…
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Tynan Island
Somewhere off the coast of Central America is an island. Right now it’s uninhabited, besides some monkeys. Long beaches reach from the palm trees to the ocean. The island is many acres in size, so big that if you were in the middle of the jungle you’d forget that you’re even on an island. If…
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Halfway Through Panama
How quickly the time has gone! We’ve been here for a month now, and it will already be hard to go. We went to Mireya’s for lunch today and Mireya said (in Spanish), “Oh good! I was thinking you left the country already!” She seemed happy that we were here for another month and we…
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Suunto X9i GPS Watch
I wasn’t wearing a watch for a while. This seemed like a pretty big lost opportunity. I checked out the prime real estate on my right wrist (I’m a lefty) and decided I needed the best watch ever. What I wanted was something reasonably good looking that packed the most function in it as possible.…
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How To Actually Get Results
I’ve been interested in self improvement for a long time. I’d get into stuff like “Mega Memory”, language tapes, or “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. For a while I didn’t really like to talk about being interested in this stuff because it was slightly embarrassing. Bettering oneself isn’t embarrassing, of course, it’s the association…
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Carnival Part 1
To my right I hear a hissing noise. It’s some sort of spray can. I turn to see what it is, and all of a sudden I can’t see out of my right eye. The spraying continues and my face is getting covered in some sort of foam. Am I getting maced? Ten minutes earlier…
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Getting Out
I was more F than A or C, but any way you look at it, I was an AFC. An Average Frustrated Chump. I had a crush on a girl named Renee, who lived on my floor in the dorm. For weeks I lived in agony, wondering if she liked me. I’d make subtle hints…
