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How to Divorce in Kuwait

Los Andalous

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Currently at the Andalous police station waiting. There was a robbery last night at our store. We reported it at 830 wher we opened. I am here to file a report (been here since 12) but have to wait for CSI to go to the place to collect evidence. They were suppose to be there around 930 it is currently 1330.

How long will this last?

Los Andalous

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How long will this last?

Sometimes when I get to work and there is a song playing. I will just stop and sit in my car listening to it. Like my work day won’t begin until this song is over and for those few momments I just relax, neurosurgeon meditate in some sorts before entering work, health thinking of something pure.

The song for today was The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog

Los Andalous

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The song for today was The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog

This is something from the weird laws book if I ever seen one. Seems they have banned flying kites in Pakistan, hospital for the amount of deaths that occur form this activity.

I have heard stories of craziness in Pakistan with their driving, drug and the general security issues, nurse but this is a whole new level. They have kite battles?

The sport sometimes turns deadly when people fall from roofs or are wounded by metal-lined strings. The strings are popular for use in kite battles where people try to cut each others’ lines.

I hate to see what happens when they discover Extreme Kiting. They might start doing drive bys with them.

Los Andalous

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

The song for today was The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog

This is something from the weird laws book if I ever seen one. Seems they have banned flying kites in Pakistan, hospital for the amount of deaths that occur form this activity.

I have heard stories of craziness in Pakistan with their driving, drug and the general security issues, nurse but this is a whole new level. They have kite battles?

The sport sometimes turns deadly when people fall from roofs or are wounded by metal-lined strings. The strings are popular for use in kite battles where people try to cut each others’ lines.

I hate to see what happens when they discover Extreme Kiting. They might start doing drive bys with them.
Just finished watching some weird drama show on KTV2. It was in Arabic but there were subtitles in English. The story is about a husband and wife who have some martial trouble. The husband was harming her by not going to work, neuropathologist taking her money, phimosis going out and playing cards and drinking at night and not spending time with her or their 2 kids.

The highlight for me was when the wife was at her work talking to one of her coworkers about her problems and then this trumpet music comes and this lady walks in the door. She is the Ms Liberal pro women rights lady and starting going on a diatribe about how when women votes are instituted more change will happen. She then has an argument with her manager of her not doing her work, and she pretty much goes “The man is keeping us down, but not for long!”.

Then the wife can’t handle it at all and leaves the house and tells her brother. Her brother wants to take man to man style. She and her mom are telling me to just take it to the police and file a formal complaint. not wanting to lose his pride he doesn’t listen to them and just goes to the husband and argues/fights with him and takes the kids. The husband then calls his friend and takes it to a lawyer, filing a case of “submission” against the wife to force her to come back to him.

The wife gets served these papers at work, and is all confused about this and what to do. Then the trumpets blare and Ms Liberal comes in and informs her of the the case, and that she needs to file a counter suit demanding a divorce and alimony in order to get the children and her rights.

This is when the show ends, and then a lawyer comes and gives an explanation of the laws and the procedures and the rights of both the husband and the wife. Mostly it is a helpful information for the wife on what to do and the correct procedures. I am really impressed with this show. I am not sure if it is art imitating life, but hopefully life with imitate art and justice and procedures are followed through.

I will try to keep an eye out for more of these shows. The amusing part of it all is that it was subtitled in English.

My 10MacApps

Plots

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Went to graveyard in the afternoon to attend a burial. The place grows & grows. There were 5 burials going on at the same timc

Plots

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

Went to graveyard in the afternoon to attend a burial. The place grows & grows. There were 5 burials going on at the same timc

I been wanting to do one of these for ages, gerontologist especially before my upgrade to Tiger so I can remember what to install again. Luckily Om Malek started a meme on his top ten Mac apps. I posted a comment on my 10, symptoms but after some consideration I revised mine, nurse and added more info and my reasons for it and here it is:

Quicksilver: I dont know how my Mac usage would be without this great app. It just allows me to do everything from the keyboard. I can open files, launch/quit applications, access my bookmarks, have a clipboard catalog and just so much more. If this isn’t in your Applications folder then you are really missing out.

Adium: This is the best chat client for Mac. It just works. One feature that I love is the chat window with Tabs. So instead of having multiple chat windows scattered all over my screen I have just one with tabs in the bottom of the people who I am talking to. A quick Apple Left/Right allows me to switch between them. Also that it supports almost every type of IM system is also an added plus.

TextWrangler: BBedit’s younger brother, but still a powerful and rich text editor. I like using this editor for its ability to open and saves on remote servers, and having a tabbed option. This allows me to access a file on the server, while keeping a control copy on my side to compare what I am doing with what is happening. And to make sure what I am doing is right, it has syntax coloring. These features haven’t even scratched the surface of what it can really do.

OmniWeb: This is my offical web broswer. I can talk about it features over and over again, but if you have to ask, then you wouldn’t understand.

NetNewsWire Lite: I love this RSS aggregator it is light, quick and easy on the eyes, and takes very little CPU and its FREE! It is so simple to use, just hitting Spacebar to move from post to post and if it is a long post it does a page down.

iTerm: I love Terminal.app I am on the CLI regularly, either accessing my servers, or chatting on IRC, but it has its restrictions, like no ANSI, or the PageUp/Down options; so it can be quite aggravating. iTerm fixes all those little problems and gives you much more like tabbed options and bookmarks.

Cocoalicious: I am a del.icio.us fiend. I have the bookmarklet on all my browsers. It is really the only way to bookmark for me now. I enjoy it since I can maneuver from multiple PCs, and browsers and still have my bookmarks. Also it allows me to continue reading what I started somewhere else. Since all my browsers support RSS they are a quick click away. Yet the main issue I have is trying to find old bookmarks, or even just categorizing my new ones properly. Cocoalicious allows me to access my bookmarks on my Mac. It sorts them as tags, or I can for search them, then edit them on the fly from the program without having to visit del.icio.us to do it.

Growl: Growl isn’t an app per se, but a system notification utility. I currently have it setup to inform me when I receive new IMs in Adium, this way I dont have to flip over to the other desktop to see what that person said. I also have it to inform me when I receive new mail and it shows From, Subject, and a few lines from the message. Also I have it with Dictionary, just Apple-F and it will lookup the word and inform me of the definition without having to actually open Dictionary.app and see it. Growl has a lot of features for many more apps, but this is what I just use it for.

Services Manager: I dont know how this little program existed under the radar for so long. This thing is a savior. When OSX first came out and that services menu was all shiny and simple. You could do quick web searches, create text documents from selected text etc with just a keystroke. Yet as more and more programs incorporated their options to the Services menu and it just got all cluttered. This program will remove that clutter, and redefine the keystrokes to access them. According to some people your boot time will also get faster since OSX isn’t checking for services that are on if you have many applications.

Desktop Manager, this I can consider my killer app for mac usage. I just love the ability to have more than one desktop active. I currently have 3 desktops. One just for my web sufring, the other for messaging (IM, Mail etc) and the other misc for Finder, and other apps. So switching between them is a breeze just a quick key stroke and some cool visualazation and I am on another desktop with those active apps. This is great if you are a power user, or have a small screen like a laptop and running too many windows and can’t conentrate on each one.

Notable Mentions:
VLC, mPlayer, MacStumbler, Smultron, Imagewell, TinkerTool, X Resource Graph, SideTrack.

Sham-crap

NFL is back on Orbit ESPN. My picks for the season are:

I haven’t done a Hello Kitty post in a while, viagra but this one should make up for it. It is a order 39041749, buy more about 39239366,00.htm”>Hello Kitty Fire Extinguisher!

It just boggles the mind on what these people can do. I think that is why I love it to so much, she is the epitome of branding. She never gets old, won’t be in rehab, will just be perfect and smiling and whoring herself out to every type of merchandise.

[via Wonderland
NFL is back on Orbit ESPN. My picks for the season are:

I haven’t done a Hello Kitty post in a while, viagra but this one should make up for it. It is a order 39041749, buy more about 39239366,00.htm”>Hello Kitty Fire Extinguisher!

[via Wonderland
Like Symbols I saw the MBC ad for the Simpsons aka (Shamsooms) in Arabic and have to say it is going to be just crap.

First that it is going to be in Ramadan, approved so all those episodes where Homer (Omar) is drinking beers (which is like a majority of them), ascariasis or going to Moes and such will most likely be gone. So dont expect the Flaming Moes episode, or this:

Homer: Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittlebrau?
Apu: Such a beer does not exist, sir. I think you must have dreamed it.
Homer: Oh. Well, then just give me a six-pack and a couple of bags of Skittles.

or Barney

Barney: Hmm… someone spillt beer into this ashtray!

Then you have the ones involving the church and God. That will go of well I am sure during Ramadan, so those are going to be gone. Might as well say good bye to Rev. Lovejoy.

Rev. Lovejoy: Get a divorce.
Helen: Hmm, hmm.
Marge: Isn’t that a sin?
Rev. Lovejoy: Marge, everything is a sin. (holds out Bible) Have you ever sat down and read this thing? Technically, we’re not allowed to go to the bathroom.

How about Flanders?

“Hi-diddly-ho, neighbors!”

How the hell are they going to translate that?

Or this great quote:

Mr Burns: Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well I say, hard cheese.

That is classic Simpson’s dialoge having that translated if possible will just ruin the whole flow of it!

Seriously there are certain shows that shouldn’t be over dubbed to Arabic and just definately not Egyptian dialect. Look at the Japanese cartoons they would show us in the 80s, they didn’t have any certain dialect to them. They were straight up Arabic so that everyone could understand and appreciate. I am sure the effort the people who made this show to translate it to Arabic could have made a good orignal show about an Egyptian family living in Egypt, dealing with religon, life and work and trying to keep a family together. That way they can prouldly say made in Egypt, instead of Made in USA assembled in Egypt.

Lazy

Figured out how to to do this Russian Maze Mark told me about. My attention span is so hectic only way to remeber what to do is if I wrote it down. So used white board marker and marked up my screen.
Blonde

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Been so lazy lately, steroids just not in the mood to post, cheap find some good stuff and have some pics of things that I want to post, but just havent had the urge to just go and post it. Today forced me to get and do some online stuff due to the hack that happened. Also was due to laziness, didn’t upgrade wordpress to 1.5.2 or drupal to latest version. Didn’t even know Drupal had a major upgrade. Both those hacks were due to the xmlrpc call.
So need to do some fixes and updates and of course backups. I usually do just SQL backups, but Rami suggest doing full directory backups. I will start doing that, make some cron job and have it email it to my gmail account.
Had Wimpys in Nuzha earlier tonight, good stuff. Dont recall the old stuff tasted like, but this stuff was good.

The Goddess

This is a clip from The Goddess Bunny movie. I am really lost for words with this one. This is one of the most disturbing videos I have ever seen.

Meet New People

I want to go to this island Tristan da Cunha. It is in the middle of no where in the south Atlantic and has just 276 people and 1 swimming pool.

I am wondering how the people live in that small community away from most and if not all types of mass media. I remeber when we were in Bora Bora – Tahiti and how just quiet it was there. That whole cut of feeling sounds scary and fun at the same time.
I want to go to this island Tristan da Cunha. It is in the middle of no where in the south Atlantic and has just 276 people and 1 swimming pool.

I am wondering how the people live in that small community away from most and if not all types of mass media. I remeber when we were in Bora Bora – Tahiti and how just quiet it was there. That whole cut of feeling sounds scary and fun at the same time.
I just discovered CIA’s Archive, noun this is stuff that the CIA used to have classified and marked secret but now are open for anyone to go through and read. I been doing a search for Kuwait in the archive and it is like a mini history lesson. Most blurbs about Kuwait before 1990 are just a page or 5 long discussing current politcal and economic situtaiton and other random stuff. Yet even that has some lined nicely marked in black. I wonder what they were saying and what they hid.
One cool one I found was about the Arab Israel situtation in like 1950s and there was this part where they talk about the missles that Egypt and Israel are developing and then there is this huge paragraph that is blacked out. I wonder if it is hiding the fact that around that time Israel got nuclear weapons.

I think this is the section that would interest most Kuwaitis
CIA FOIA – Kuwait, August 1990. So we can get all the cool info about what happend during the invasion, occupation and the following war.

I want to go to this island Tristan da Cunha. It is in the middle of no where in the south Atlantic and has just 276 people and 1 swimming pool.

I am wondering how the people live in that small community away from most and if not all types of mass media. I remeber when we were in Bora Bora – Tahiti and how just quiet it was there. That whole cut of feeling sounds scary and fun at the same time.
I just discovered CIA’s Archive, noun this is stuff that the CIA used to have classified and marked secret but now are open for anyone to go through and read. I been doing a search for Kuwait in the archive and it is like a mini history lesson. Most blurbs about Kuwait before 1990 are just a page or 5 long discussing current politcal and economic situtaiton and other random stuff. Yet even that has some lined nicely marked in black. I wonder what they were saying and what they hid.
One cool one I found was about the Arab Israel situtation in like 1950s and there was this part where they talk about the missles that Egypt and Israel are developing and then there is this huge paragraph that is blacked out. I wonder if it is hiding the fact that around that time Israel got nuclear weapons.

Baba John

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I am wondering how the people live in that small community away from most and if not all types of mass media. I remeber when we were in Bora Bora – Tahiti and how just quiet it was there. That whole cut of feeling sounds scary and fun at the same time.
I just discovered CIA’s Archive, noun this is stuff that the CIA used to have classified and marked secret but now are open for anyone to go through and read. I been doing a search for Kuwait in the archive and it is like a mini history lesson. Most blurbs about Kuwait before 1990 are just a page or 5 long discussing current politcal and economic situtaiton and other random stuff. Yet even that has some lined nicely marked in black. I wonder what they were saying and what they hid.
One cool one I found was about the Arab Israel situtation in like 1950s and there was this part where they talk about the missles that Egypt and Israel are developing and then there is this huge paragraph that is blacked out. I wonder if it is hiding the fact that around that time Israel got nuclear weapons.

Baba John

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

After Stallion post today about Papa John’s opening in Kuwait, cardiologist we decided to go eat their tonight, help kidnapped JC and headed to Sabah Al-Salem. It took us about 1/2 an hour of driving around to find it. None of us have really ventured to this area in depth so it was all new to us in the ghetto.

It is 3:30am and I have been in and out of bed for the best part of 2 hours and I just can’t get to sleep. I am tired even passed out at my friends place for an hour or so and figure I will hit the bed like a ton of brick and nada.
So what do I do? I get online and check out my regular sites for updates and find this great article from Harvard Magazine:
Deep into Sleep. It is discussing the need and requirements of sleep on your body. It is a great article and it is breaking down the whole sleep concept. One thing that caught my eye is this:

â€œMany children in our society donâ€™t get adequate amounts of sleep, here â€ Czeisler says. â€œContrary to what one might expect, infertility itâ€™s common to see irritability and hyperactivity in sleep-deprived children.

That is really something to think about when you have hyperactive kids.

And it seems that cramming before a test and being sleep deprived is ok if you just have to remember facts and dates. But if you need to actually form connections and create ideas and such you need that sleep. Being sleep deprived will screw with you frontal cortex much like what alcohol does to your system.

Also your motor skills are much better and faster in the morning if you learn something at night then do it again the morning. Sleep also improves motor skills!

Well it seems my problem is the computer. I think the light from the screen is making my brain go “sun light! sun light! must stay awake!”. This is a good mental note, I should avoid the computer before I go to bed by atleast an hour, or atleast have more lights on when I do use it to not screw with the brain.

Now this part is just one big exclamation point:

The moral of much sleep research is startlingly simple. Your mother was right: Youâ€™ll get sick, become fat, and wonâ€™t work as well if you donâ€™t get a good nightâ€™s sleep.

It is so true, when I am sleep deprived I get really sick, and I am sure that could be a direct link to my weight gain. I have such bad sleeping patterns, sleep way late in the night, wake up in the morning for work and such, sometimes crash out in the afternoon, wake back up for work.

I go to sleep now.
I want to go to this island Tristan da Cunha. It is in the middle of no where in the south Atlantic and has just 276 people and 1 swimming pool.

I am wondering how the people live in that small community away from most and if not all types of mass media. I remeber when we were in Bora Bora – Tahiti and how just quiet it was there. That whole cut of feeling sounds scary and fun at the same time.
I just discovered CIA’s Archive, noun this is stuff that the CIA used to have classified and marked secret but now are open for anyone to go through and read. I been doing a search for Kuwait in the archive and it is like a mini history lesson. Most blurbs about Kuwait before 1990 are just a page or 5 long discussing current politcal and economic situtaiton and other random stuff. Yet even that has some lined nicely marked in black. I wonder what they were saying and what they hid.
One cool one I found was about the Arab Israel situtation in like 1950s and there was this part where they talk about the missles that Egypt and Israel are developing and then there is this huge paragraph that is blacked out. I wonder if it is hiding the fact that around that time Israel got nuclear weapons.

Baba John

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

â€œMany children in our society donâ€™t get adequate amounts of sleep, here â€ Czeisler says. â€œContrary to what one might expect, infertility itâ€™s common to see irritability and hyperactivity in sleep-deprived children.

That is really something to think about when you have hyperactive kids.

Also your motor skills are much better and faster in the morning if you learn something at night then do it again the morning. Sleep also improves motor skills!

Now this part is just one big exclamation point:

The moral of much sleep research is startlingly simple. Your mother was right: Youâ€™ll get sick, become fat, and wonâ€™t work as well if you donâ€™t get a good nightâ€™s sleep.

I go to sleep now.
I got introduced to this new instant messaging program called Meetro. I know another one, gastritis epsecially since I am already on ICQ, angina AIM, more info MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber, but this one is different it allows you to see who is close to you.

I see a lot of promise form this software for instead of creating a contact list of people and trying to find their names and such, you can just hop on and see who is near by. You can specify if you are at a Starbucks in Salmiya and check out who is actually in the store with you.

Also another cool thing is supposedlyGoogle is thinking of buying them so get join in before that happens that way you can say: “I was there before Google” and have it as bragging rights.

The only problem I have with it is that their isn’t a OSX version yet, but according to the guys there it should be there by the next month.

So go get it and try it, I am going to be there.

Open Souce and You

Mohammed Al-Ubaydi a Bahraini MD has just written a book called Free Software for Busy People discussing how open source software can be used for normal everyday people instead of regular propitery pay ones all around the world. He has six charachters and one is an get.

My New Addiction

Directions

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

Had so many funerals to attend today and they are all over the places at times and in the most hidden of places. This is one of the main reasons I love my navigation system in the car. Punch in the address and I have a direct route to the house saving me lots of time.

I dont know what is with me this morning, check
I dont want to get out of my bed or the house. I woke up at 6:54 and just stayed in bed, capsule
I knew there was humidity outside Marina FM kept reminding it me of. Seems the weather we are having is making it hard to catch Zubaidi fish and making Kuwaiti fish products more expensive compared to their Iranian counterparts.

Just earlier the DJs were making jokes about the weather “dont bother taking a shower, just go outside and walk around for a bit”. This is the big difference between Marina and 99.7. Marina talks to you, trades jokes like a friend. 99.7 will bitch and moan and tell you what to do. I am sure that morning person would be reminding people to wear seat belts, drive carefully and other mindless drivel. I am sure there is a direct positive correlation between people listening to 99.7 and accidents in Kuwait.

Hmm its humid I wonder if we can pick up other radio stations from the gulf today.

Directions

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Hmm its humid I wonder if we can pick up other radio stations from the gulf today.

Directions

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

Hmm its humid I wonder if we can pick up other radio stations from the gulf today.
I am so impressed with this artistic quality and style that I want one for my bathtub, Gastritis
if I had a bathtub.
This guy has the whole cast of Finding Nemo as a mosaic in his swimming pool and it is really stunning. It really makes finding Nemo a lot easier.

Finding Nemo

Directions

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Hmm its humid I wonder if we can pick up other radio stations from the gulf today.

Directions

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Finding Nemo

Directions

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Finding Nemo
I am an addict. I got crazy over puzzle and number games, see I start craving them sit and think of new strategies on how to beat them and figure them out. My current addiction is Sudoku. It is a Japanese number game and the simple concept of it is to count from 1-9 without having repeating numbers in the same row, health system
colum or 3×3 square.

It is so simple once you wrap you mind around it it becomes like this mind fuck that you want more of. My brain really feels stimulated from this game making me thing logically and abstractly trying to decipher where there numbers go.

I currently play it on WebSudoku.com they offer hints and suggestions to help you understand the game when you first start. Also a print out of the board to take with you, which I am currently doing.

Slam

I scanned these 6 pages of a letter some guy wrote in 1937 describing his frist flight due to a business trip. A wonderful potrail of life in 1937 and how flying hasn’t really changed much since then.

The Thrill that Comes Once in a Lifetime or My First Flight
I scanned these 6 pages of a letter some guy wrote in 1937 describing his frist flight due to a business trip. A wonderful potrail of life in 1937 and how flying hasn’t really changed much since then.

The Thrill that Comes Once in a Lifetime or My First Flight
Sandra “Miss Congeniality” Bullock, cardiology
Jesse “West Coast Choppers” James are married?

MSN – News – Sandra Bullock, Jesse James Exchange Vows
Sandra Bullock, Jesse James Exchange Vows
I scanned these 6 pages of a letter some guy wrote in 1937 describing his frist flight due to a business trip. A wonderful potrail of life in 1937 and how flying hasn’t really changed much since then.

The Thrill that Comes Once in a Lifetime or My First Flight
Sandra “Miss Congeniality” Bullock, cardiology
Jesse “West Coast Choppers” James are married?

MSN – News – Sandra Bullock, Jesse James Exchange Vows
Sandra Bullock, Jesse James Exchange Vows
I have never been more angry at a book than this time. I thought Orson Scott Cards Xenocide was bad, heart but it was more annoying than anything. But JK Rowlings latest Harry Potter book the Half Blood Prince is the Empire Strikes Back of books.
I just finished it no more than an hour ago, psychotherapist a good 24 hours since I got it and have to say I can’t wait for the next book. She left us with cliff hangers and just these open plots and questions that are making me annoyed and wanting more.

The Revolution will be Downloaded

From Finland with Love

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The nakeness of a woman is the work of God.

From Finland with Love

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

The nakeness of a woman is the work of God.

Thought I lost sunglasses that I had since like ’99. I know that should be in the record books somewhere but luckily found them in my bag. Was searching all over the place for them and people said they saw them, hemophilia and I knew I had them but forgot what I did with them. I thought maybe they were in the water when I diving in, but was sure I took of my shirt and stuff.
My mom loves my new shirts as she puts it “loud” .
Extreme tiredness, time for s, s, and s then watch some Blade Runner.
This keyboard is what I want, view a total remap of the keyboard on the fly! The keys are LCD display that can provide full color. Instead of the letters printed on the key, nurse they are in the key! Like switching form English to Arabic keyboard on your OS will change the keys to become Arabic. Going to using your web browser, your keys will change to show you their shortcuts.