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• History & Anthropology

  The dead city of Pripyat

  04.26.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Today is the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. I was unaware of this until I heard it this morning on the radio while driving to work. Completely by coincident, a friend of mine and I were looking at pictures of the dead city of Pripyat yesterday, a city in northern Ukraine. Pripyat was evacuated [...]

• Life Unplugged

  What is going on here?!?!

  10.16.05 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I had a little disaster on Friday. A pipe burst on my third floor and water poured down my walls and ceilings for about 4 hours. Ceilings in my kitchen and bathrooms collapsed. My basement had about 6 inches of water in it. For those of you who don’t know, I have a finished basement [...]