Articles by Doug Nienhuis
I am a Canadian, and I am currently traveling through Asia with a touring bicycle. These are stories and pictures from my trip.
Memory Is So Flawed
Back in 1998, I went on a bike trip to Ethiopia. I had a film camera, and film was expensive, so I didn’t take very many pictures. (Digital cameras and smartphones hadn’t been invented yet.So strange to think about that.) And people were so inquisitive and so demanding, that it was impossible to write in my journal anywhere. I ended up recording my journal on …
Sansa Clip – Have I Ever Managed to Fix Anything?
Have I ever managed to fix anything?
My life seems like an endless series of broken things. I try to fix them, and in the fixing, I destroy them. The latest in this long series is the Sansa Clip.
It was a great little MP3 player until suddenly it wasn’t. It was barely used, practically new, and the headphones started to crackle.
Movie Stupidities
Characters in movies do a lot of dumb things.
When good guys or bad guys pour out a can of gasoline and set fire to it, they always have a Zippo lighter. They never, like a normal person, have an ordinary lighter. They always have a Zippo. And they don’t lean down and light the fire and keep the lighter. They always throw the Zippo into …
VIDEO: It’s FREE!! But is it GOOD? A Torture Test of Kuala Lumpur’s GoKL Bus Service (GREEN LINE)
By riding on the GoKL Green Line (one of six lines in Kuala Lumpur’s free public transit bus system), I was heading into unfamiliar waters. The Green Line makes a loop from Bukit Bintang to the KLCC area and then back again. I’d been to KLCC a few times, but I always got there via the underground LRT system. And when I came above ground, …