Hatchetman wrote:
I haven't had a Giordano's stuffed in a long time....
bullshit...
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| Author: | beni hanna [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 4:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Globe Trekking and Pizza: Discuss |
I have liked Paul Salopek's writing for a while. Pretty ambitious little trek he has here. I will be shocked if he lives through the experience. Quite a dedication to one's craft. The verdict is out if it "motivates" me. Meet two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Salopek, a National Geographic fellow and Pulitzer Center grantee who will begin a trek around the world in winter 2013. His "Out of Eden" walk, which will follow the path of human migration out of Africa, will span 39 countries and take approximately seven years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVKlyb3iMI0 |
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| Author: | jimmypasta [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 4:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
Probably order a pizza tonight to start out. |
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| Author: | beni hanna [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 4:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
carbo loading. Check. |
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| Author: | Colonel Angus [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 5:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
what are you getting on it? I like Sausage & Mushrooms. |
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| Author: | jimmypasta [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
Colonel Angus wrote: what are you getting on it? I like Sausage & Mushrooms. Sausage-yes,mushrooms-no. If we order Dominos,probably Sausage and green pepper. Local pizza place=just sausage. |
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| Author: | doug - evergreen park [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
we're going with Pepperoni tonight. |
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| Author: | Colonel Angus [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
I'll probably be having a frozen Pepperoni, Red Baron. |
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| Author: | Scorehead [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
jimmypasta wrote: Colonel Angus wrote: what are you getting on it? I like Sausage & Mushrooms. Sausage-yes,mushrooms-no. If we order Dominos,probably Sausage and green pepper. Local pizza place=just sausage. How does Dominos, Papa Johns, & Little Caesars stay in business? This Pizza is absolute crap. I mean I know that my kids in College order LC's because its like $5 for a 36' Pizza, but still... Anyway, Mrs. Scorehead & I are going to Wildfire for some fine undercooked dead Cow. We're sitting in the 1% section, right next to Doc & Reason. |
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| Author: | Chus [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
doug - evergreen park wrote: we're going with Pepperoni tonight. Italian Beef, and 1/2 giardiniera. |
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| Author: | beni hanna [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
Scorehead wrote: How does Dominos, Papa Johns, & Little Caesars stay in business? This Pizza is absolute crap. I mean I know that my kids in College order LC's because its like $5 for a 36' Pizza, but still... I believe you partly answered your own question. Toss in delivery for full winning. |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
I'll get nothing, but not like it. |
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| Author: | Chus [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
Chus wrote: doug - evergreen park wrote: we're going with Pepperoni tonight. Italian Beef, and 1/2 giardiniera. Not just that. We have 12 coupons from the side of the pizza box, so the pizza is 50% off. Winning. |
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| Author: | Colonel Angus [ Fri Nov 09, 2012 7:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
Scorehead wrote: jimmypasta wrote: Colonel Angus wrote: what are you getting on it? I like Sausage & Mushrooms. Sausage-yes,mushrooms-no. If we order Dominos,probably Sausage and green pepper. Local pizza place=just sausage. How does Dominos, Papa Johns, & Little Caesars stay in business? This Pizza is absolute crap. I mean I know that my kids in College order LC's because its like $5 for a 36' Pizza, but still... Anyway, Mrs. Scorehead & I are going to Wildfire for some fine undercooked dead Cow. We're sitting in the 1% section, right next to Doc & Reason. I wouldn't call their pizza "crap", but I know what you're talking about. In Chicago pizza places are in every neighborhood, and for the most part @ least decent. There are, though, many places that only have the big chains. Maybe we should start a telethon for those poor souls. |
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| Author: | beni hanna [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 4:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
BUMP It's on. Salopek is 41 days into this. 200 miles so far. Really fascinating stuff. This will obviously not be for everyone here and that is ok. Those interested in history, writing and a decent level of interest in the world might just really enjoy keeping an eye on this little venture. http://www.outofedenwalk.com/ |
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| Author: | Hatchetman [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 4:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
I haven't had a Giordano's stuffed in a long time.... |
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| Author: | beni hanna [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 4:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
http://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/28/electronic-oasis/ January 28, 2013 Electronic Oasis by Paul Salopek Dalifagi village, Ethiopia, 10°37'34.8'' N, 40°18'43.9'' E Water is gold in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. No surprise. It’s in one of the hottest deserts in the world. Walking for three days recently near the western scarp of the Rift Valley, guide Ahmed Alema Hessan and I found one smear of muddy rainwater to ease our camels’ thirst. But we stumbled across a new type of waterhole a day later—a coveted oasis of electrons, the village of Dalifagi. The immense saltscapes that straddle the borders of Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Eritrea weren’t even mapped until the 1920s. For centuries, the martial Afar pastoralists who ruled the area resisted all incursions by the outside world. Today, though, they embrace the information revolution with a vengeance. “It has given them power,” says Mulukan Ayalu, 23, an Ethiopian government technician who maintains the tiny power plant at Dalifagi. “They can call different goat traders. They can choose their selling prices.” The diesel generators of Dalifagi don’t throw much shade. And they offer meager habitat for weaverbirds or gazelles. But the Chinese pistons chug out a 220-volt current for six hours a day. In the process, they’ve transformed an end-of-the road outpost that was pristine desert just 20 years ago into the latest hub of the information revolution—a magnet for Afar pastoralists who walk from miles around, desperate to slake their cell phone addiction with a battery charge. As well master of the electronic oasis, Ayalu recharges nomad cell phones for a few cents. On Mondays—market day—trail-worn Afar pastoralists line up at his office door with the folds of their sarong-like shirts laden with dead cell phones of faraway neighbors. Customers who drop off their phones for recharging are given a handmade token. The numbers now rise into the hundreds. Some purveyors of scarce electrons on Africa’s information frontier get even more creative. In the nearby Afar town of Asaita, one local entrepreneur has jigsawed together a Frankensteinish apparatus that quick-charges clients’ phones in minutes. At night, when the power is on, the residents of Dalifagi engage in a new cultural practice that didn’t diffuse from Manhattan—the power dinner, with cell phones clamped to ears. When two Afars meet in the desert, they often conduct a dagu, a formal exchange of news with a lengthy call-and-response greeting. “Now we dagu, dagu, dagu all the time on the phone,” Ahmed Alema Hessan says. As oases go, the electronic waterhole at Dalifagi would never draw adventure tourists, much less inspire the verse of caravan poets, but it is the real story in sub-Saharan Africa. Nine hundred million people. A headlong sprint into the digital age that leaps over a century of analog technology. Exploding aspirations. Consequences unknown. In Ethiopia, the government is aggressively expanding its state-run mobile network. Last year, cell use ballooned by an astonishing 30 percent, to more than 17 million subscribers. In isolated Dalfagi, even the frontier rusticity of the communal wall plugs will fade. Next year, fixed power lines arrive. “Twenty years from now? There will be a different Afar people,” said Haji Boddaya Qibad, a local political leader of the nomads. “Life won’t be camels and sheep anymore.” |
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| Author: | Krazy Ivan [ Thu Apr 25, 2013 4:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
Hatchetman wrote: I haven't had a Giordano's stuffed in a long time.... bullshit... |
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| Author: | beni hanna [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
Bump. The guy crossed the Red Sea and landed in Jeddah. Still pretty interesting stuff. Great storytelling for either you and or the kids. At this point, I highly recommend you visit MapRoom from the link I provided and follow along that way. You can see where he was when a post was made and the general dates. It may be easier than trying to read each post as the are made from the "Dispatches" section. The order is backward there and harder imo to follow. http://www.outofedenwalk.com/map-room/ At the bottom of the MapRoom section you will see a Special Feature and Walking Jeddah. Interesting look at the town, urban life/buildings/sprawl through small comments, video and pictures. |
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| Author: | Douchebag [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
Scorehead wrote: Anyway, Mrs. Scorehead & I are going to Wildfire for some fine undercooked dead Cow. We're sitting in the 1% section, right next to Doc & Reason. If you're going to Wildfire, the 1% section doesn't exist. What super-rich person would choose Wildfire? |
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| Author: | Bagels [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
jimmypasta wrote: Colonel Angus wrote: what are you getting on it? I like Sausage & Mushrooms. Sausage-yes,mushrooms-no. If we order Dominos,probably Sausage and green pepper. Local pizza place=just sausage. does Domino's have premium quality green pepper or something ? |
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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
Bagels wrote: jimmypasta wrote: Colonel Angus wrote: what are you getting on it? I like Sausage & Mushrooms. Sausage-yes,mushrooms-no. If we order Dominos,probably Sausage and green pepper. Local pizza place=just sausage. does Domino's have premium quality green pepper or something ? Gotta cover up that horrible cheese, crust and sauce with something Little Caesars is not bad. |
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| Author: | spmack [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
Little Caesers now has this deep pan pizza that's decent. $8 decent, anyway. |
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| Author: | doug - evergreen park [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
If you think Dominoes, Little Ceaser's, and Papa John's are "crap"....then I suggest you never eat at McDonald's, Burger King, or Wendy's...because those "burgers" are crap. |
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| Author: | Bagels [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
doug - evergreen park wrote: If you think Dominoes, Little Ceaser's, and Papa John's are "crap"....then I suggest you never eat at McDonald's, Burger King, or Wendy's...because those "burgers" are crap. i would rather a pizza from any one of those places than pretty much any frozen pizza |
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| Author: | Scorehead [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
doug - evergreen park wrote: If you think Dominoes, Little Ceaser's, and Papa John's are "crap"....then I suggest you never eat at McDonald's, Burger King, or Wendy's...because those "burgers" are crap. I actually never eat Burgers at Macs, BK, or Wendys. I gave that crap up a few years ago. I do like Wendys Chili though. |
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| Author: | Bagels [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: So, what are you doing for the next 7 years? |
Scorehead wrote: [ I do like Wendys Chili though. you mean the thing where they put all the crumbled burgers that fell on the floor ? |
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| Author: | doug - evergreen park [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Globe Trekking and Pizza: Discuss |
I'm not going to Wendy's anymore. Friends of friends found an earthworm in a Berry Almond Chicken Salad a couple of weeks ago...I saw the picture. So....I'm pretty much done with fast food, at least for the foreseeable future. |
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| Author: | Hawg Ass [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Globe Trekking and Pizza: Discuss |
doug - evergreen park wrote: I'm not going to Wendy's anymore. Friends of friends found an earthworm in a Berry Almond Chicken Salad a couple of weeks ago...I saw the picture. So....I'm pretty much done with fast food, at least for the foreseeable future. Another reason not to get salads, just get Baconators!! |
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| Author: | Bagels [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Globe Trekking and Pizza: Discuss |
Hawg Ass wrote: doug - evergreen park wrote: I'm not going to Wendy's anymore. Friends of friends found an earthworm in a Berry Almond Chicken Salad a couple of weeks ago...I saw the picture. So....I'm pretty much done with fast food, at least for the foreseeable future. Another reason not to get salads, just get Baconators!! yup that way the earthworms are all ground up and you don't notice |
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| Author: | Hawg Ass [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Globe Trekking and Pizza: Discuss |
Bagels wrote: Hawg Ass wrote: doug - evergreen park wrote: I'm not going to Wendy's anymore. Friends of friends found an earthworm in a Berry Almond Chicken Salad a couple of weeks ago...I saw the picture. So....I'm pretty much done with fast food, at least for the foreseeable future. Another reason not to get salads, just get Baconators!! yup that way the earthworms are all ground up and you don't notice If that is what gives them the flavor, it's all good. |
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