[Update: I took this down. I was feeling bad about piling on this guy. He definitely has it coming given his comments in the email that started all of this, but I'm sure he's already more than getting his. The Gawker.com post about that email and his website has already gotten over 92,000 hits the [...]

Here is the verbatim SMS message I received on my cell phone last night from Thao, the woman I had dinner with Sunday night: “How are you to day? Henry. Are you busy tonight? How about your dinner? B/c you don’t pick up my phone so that I guess you very busy. I want to [...]

Back in the states, I was a big fan of the American television program “The Office.”  I’d only seen the original British version, from which the American version was derived, a couple of times and didn’t really get into it at the time.  But I bought the DVD of the entire British series – which [...]

So I was sitting in my private Vietnamese class last night when someone knocked on the door.  That actually happens quite often – people coming to the wrong classroom, etc.  So my teacher, Cô Trúc, opens the door and starts talking to this Vietnamese guy.  I’m sitting there getting kind of agitated because I’m paying [...]

I think this site (www.skreemr.com) deserves its own post – not just a link in my Google Reader Shared Items. It’s an MP3 search engine – you type in what you’re looking for and it searches blogs all over the internet to find it. (Very similar to the Hype Machine (www.hypem.com), but Skreemr’s search seems [...]

I was going through some old photos on my hard drive so here you go. Here are a few from a snowboarding trip to Whistler, B.C. back in 2001 or 2002 – not sure: Henry, Mitch, DJ: Again, after more beer: And more beer: And . . . there is actually a story behind this [...]

Yesterday, Saturday, October 6, 2007, marked three months since I arrived in Vietnam. (I wrote a longer post yesterday about how I feel so far, etc., but our internet was down at the office so I wasn’t able to post it and will have to post it when I’m back in the office tomorrow.) But [...]

Thursday: Worked out with personal trainer at gym. For the second time in my life, I grossly overworked myself. I’m writing this on Sunday, and I still don’t have the full range of motion back in my arms. Despite telling the trainer that I had never worked out with weights before (which is not really [...]

Mr. Vinh got revenge for his arm-wrestling and karaoke losses by beating the hell out of me on the squash court. We played 5 games, and he beat me 9-0, 9-0, 9-1, 9-2, 9-1. To be fair, that was only the second time in my life I’ve played squash, and Vinh is pretty good, but [...]

When I wrote that post about getting sick in India in 1996, I mentioned the woman I was dating at the time, Alexis. That got me thinking about a funny story involving her – which also occurred back in 1996. But to tell that story, I’ve got to go back to my 1993 backpacking trip [...]