http://rohan.com/blog Stories and random thoughts by Rohan Mahy Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:37:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm finally getting around to posting photos from Thanksgiving. This year I cooked dinner for Alex, my aunt, and my cousins (the Carpenters). Alex was enormously helpful getting ready. As you can see, we all had a good time. http://rohan.com/blog/archives/348 I went to a three-day Acroyoga workshop this weekend with Jenny Sauer-Klein, the co-founder of AcroYoga. I have not been so sore in a long time, but I had a great time. Unfortunately I did not get a lot of photos, but after the workshop I got a few shots ... http://rohan.com/blog/archives/359 For a long time I thought the solution is not to legislate marriage but to remove marriage from the domain of the state. Likewise, household rights and things like taxes are hopelessly entwined with parentage laws. I think this is also a mistake. I would like to see no mention ... http://rohan.com/blog/archives/337 About once every three months I go through medical bills and figure out who did what wrong. Often the insurance company screws something up and even more often the provider does not dot an "i" or cross a "t" and the claim gets denied. Even more often, the provider forgets ... http://rohan.com/blog/archives/336 Monday in Acroyoga we tried the 3-Headed Dragon. Fortunately somebody had a camera. http://rohan.com/blog/archives/335 Today I rented a bike. On my way somewhere else, I was riding by the Intercontinental Phoenician Hotel (the most expensive hotel in Beirut which is also home to parliament members and other big wigs that don't want to get shot) and decided it would be fun to ride the ... http://rohan.com/blog/archives/330 A few days ago, I went to the South of Lebanon. To go south of the Litani river (other than to the city of Tyre) you need to get special authorization from the police. Four of us took a taxi from our hotel for the day. The taxi driver ... http://rohan.com/blog/archives/313 When you discover that something has gone badly wrong I think it is nice to see if you can easily prevent the same thing from happening again. I noticed that all the banks in Lebanon are flourishing now. Come to find out that they had a rather more minor financial ... http://rohan.com/blog/archives/252 I went to the National Museum in Beirut today. This place has the best preserved early (Bronze Age through Roman Period) artifacts I have ever seen. The most amazing thing is that the museum was closed during the civil war and was heavily shelled (it was right on the ... http://rohan.com/blog/archives/248 I left Syria a few days ago and I am in Beirut as I write this.  Like I did in Jordan, I rented a car for 3 days in Syria to see sights that are hard to get to. I found a French freelance journalist named Antoine and an Australian ... http://rohan.com/blog/archives/247