sduford on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Building in Panama, Panama
Most of the foundation work is completed and all main floors have been poured except for the bedroom unit. Here is the living/kitchen unit:
Here is the competed foundation for the bohio (gazebo/outdoor kitchen) :
They are also working on the roof of the guesthouse bedroom, which will also be a patio at pool level:
sduford on Mar 19 2008 | Filed under: Miscellaneous, Science
One of my biggest heroes, Arthur C. Clarke, died yesterday at age 90.
As a writer, Arthur C Clarke stood alongside Robert A Heinlein and Issac Asimov as one of the fathers of the science fiction genre. Although best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey, famously adpated for film by Stanley Kubrick, Clarke had the prolific [...]
sduford on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Politics, Science
I think the geo-political mayhem that has been forecasted by many, and for a multitude of reasons, is beginning to appear much sooner than anyone had predicted. A combination of overpopulation, overfishing, pollution, climate change, high oil prices, and the folly of biofuels is pushing up the price of staple foods at an alarming rate.
I [...]
sduford on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: Miscellaneous
We’re on track to break the record for the worst winter. The previous record was 444 centimetres of snow, and we’re now up to 408 cm, including 80 cm (that’s 32 inches for you Yankees with the medieval measuring system) in the last week alone.
There is so much snow that the guy who normally ploughs [...]
sduford on Mar 04 2008 | Filed under: Panama, Photography
I posted about 50 pictures from my last trip to Panama, you can find them in my photo gallery.
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