In case anyone is planning to travel overseas and pass through New York's JFK airport: ever since the pandemic, the entry back into the USA, with the passport control and the customs forms, has been very, very easy. It used to be that the officers might want to bark at you a bit as you… Continue reading Entry into New York’s JFK airport, post-pandemic
I think the best piece of advice is, don't get sick in Baghdad. They have public hospitals and they have private hospitals. The public ones are apparently dirty on top of everything else, so if you have money, you'd prefer treatment in the private ones. I never experienced the public hospitals myself first-hand, though, so… Continue reading Medical care in Baghdad
I did not go to Saudi Arabia, just saw it from the sky. It was approximately like this that we flew: So it wasn't just Saudi, it was also Qatar and Bahrain and Kuwait. And we hugged the coast all the way up. These cities are very very rich (at least, some people there are… Continue reading Up the coast of Saudi Arabia from the sky at night
So it's time to leave Iraq and you're flying back to wherever. You're going to need to get from the city to the airport, and there are about 7 security checkpoints you have to clear. So buckle up, here we go: First, I believe that no passenger is able to drive to the airport for… Continue reading Flying out of Baghdad
A year or two ago, Iraq changed its rules so that citizens of many countries can get a visa-on-arrival at the airport. This is always the easiest procedure. One time, I went to Syria. This was before the war. We could not get visas on arrival at the airport in Damascus. We had to be… Continue reading Passport control when flying into Baghdad
Here is a series of five videos that show what Baghdad looks like during midday. The route is roughly as follows: Going from the Mansour neighborhood, to the Royal Private Hospital It's a very simple route, and though the streets were sometimes choked with cars, it wasn't so bad and we got back and forth… Continue reading Driving through Baghdad
The last time I made a video about Sweden, it was fall 2017. Can't believe we're 6 years past 2017. The time gap was not intentional. I just got caught up with other things. But I finally got one done. . Taylor Swift singing about Sweden (Mirrorball): I made this in Blender 3D. I tried… Continue reading A new video about Sweden
I was going from Pasadena to the West Los Angeles Regional Branch library -- they were having an arts program. You have to cross most of Los Angeles to do this. And I don't have a car, so I took four buses and light rails, and needed all the connections to work just right so… Continue reading The Los Angeles metro was on time
This is a memory ... Vickie Honeycutt was a much-loved teacher at my high school for decades. I had her for English. In spite of her universal popularity, I didn't like her that much, and I don't think she liked me either. She probably thought I was annoying. She died quite young of cancer in… Continue reading Vickie Honeycutt Baccalaureate Speech, 2000
I think this is one of my favorite scenes I've ever made in Blender: Those are the angel chimes completed, and I have them spinning; and as they spin, they shoot sparkly hearts out the mouths of the trumpets of the angels!
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