Scott Elkin

Wow, it’s good to be back. Last few weeks has been a blur. I will have to do a brain dump of all that happened at a later time. There was just too much stuff we did to even confront writing it all down. Went through all my old mail and blogs. Things I’ve missed…

After 23 hours or so, I finally arrived here in Medan. Thank goodness for the Gameboy and the new Legend of Zelda game. I could of spent another 10 hours sitting on that plane with that game. We feel a bit like celebrities here. We are wearing these bright yellow shirts that translate to “Volunteer…

It bugs me when I am trying to find information on Tahiti, for instance, and the majority of what shows is travel sites. So for stuff like that in the future I am also going to use Answers.com. It gives you the definition, a concise encyclopedic entry, some maps, and links to other information. I…

Whenever I want to quickly check a date, I just pull up the windows calendar by double-clicking on the time in the start bar. But if I need to see what date something happened back in December, I have to first change the month, then the year. That is so annoying! I should be able…

Man was I just laughing hard. My wife and I were watching Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. I got a phone call and paused the DVD while looking for the phone. When I looked back at the TV, this is what I saw: Update: I am laughing even re-reading this post.

For all those looking for the website to help in the relief efforts to South East Asia, go here: http://www.VMDisasterRelief.com I broke it down to “General Information”, then by country. Now we can coordinate all our info and efforts so we can spend less time trying to find the information and more time acting on…

It is becoming more and more real that I will be going to Sumatra next week to help out the relief efforts. I am in process of raising some money, so I will know more in the next couple of days. I found these pics of Banda Aceh in Indonesia. This is before: and after:…