Otto's Random Thoughts

I came to Kyrgyzstan this summer with one primary objective. This objective is to get my daughter a US birth certificate and passport. After...

I am getting closer to accomplishing what I came back to Bishkek to finish. I think there is some universal law that nothing in the third wo...

Kyrgyzstan is hotter than Ghana was when I left. Bishkek is a lot smaller and quieter than Accra. I have met with some old friends and not m...

On Monday night I left Accra to go to Bishkek via London and Istanbul. I arrived in Bishkek on Wednesday morning. I do not recommend travell...

I know looking at this blog it looks like my personal life is rather limited. But, I actually do have a life outside of academia. Those of y...

1. It is almost impossible to get a really good beef hamburger outside the US. You can find decent ones if you look hard, but not excellent ...

Sometimes you can not accomplish everything in one attempt. You have to do it in two half steps. This is frustrating, but a half step is muc...

Today I came across a fresh fruit juice combination I had not seen before. It was pineapple and watermelon. It tasted pretty good. But, I st...

I have decided that the best strategy for getting through life is to accomplish a little bit each day. Days where I accomplish nothing are f...

Modernity is of course a relative term. But, for a while now many scholars have identified the German extermination of the Herero and Nama p...

Since it is the rainy season here in Ghana I have finally broken down and purchased a cheap umbrella. It is small enough that it fits in my ...

Ghana routinely beats the US in football. But, it also seems to beat the US in providing health care to ordinary people. Timothy Burke, no s...

Now that I have entered my grades I am completely done with the academic work of my first semester at the University of Ghana. Now I have to...

Yesterday I purchased a University of Ghana knit shirt. I had not seen them on sale before. However, yesterday I noticed that two men had se...

Well I got some problems solved in the last two days. I got my grades entered today. The average for my class was a B, higher than a normal ...

I am really busy this week. But, I should be able to moderate any comments you want to make on this blog. Consider this post an open thread ...

Tomorrow is American Independence Day. So to all my American readers happy Independence Day. I do not have anything special planned. I have ...

The weather today in Legon is beautiful. I took a walk this morning and ran into my Liberian friend. He is one of those people who can see t...

I have made the comments function easier to use. I have enabled Open ID so you do not have to have a Blogger account to comment. I suspect, ...

Well if criticism of the founding of Israel is not going to garner me any comments then I doubt anybody in the blogosphere is going to care ...