Friend Scott Coats has been busy over the past several months reviving PechaKucha in Bangkok and was kind enough to invite me to speak at the first two events that he organized.
PechaKucha presentations are in a format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and the speaker talks along with the images. Below is the speech that I gave at the fifth Bangkok PechaKucha night about the Wheel2Wheel charity of another good friend, Morgan Parker.
I have been doing some a lot of reading lately about gold and one of the articles I stumbled upon opened with this 1952 story of Mississippi House of Representatives member Noah S. “Soggy” Sweat, Jr.’s position on whiskey.
I share it here for your entertainment:
If you mean whiskey, the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, shame, despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am opposed to it with every fiber of my being. Continue reading
My wife just texted me from her phone – she was stuck in a tiny elevator in Milan.
Got stuck in a tiny elevator!!!!!!!
Followed immediately by this:
I can’t breathe!
I called the hotel to find out what was going on – they said that they were aware of the issue and a technician was on the way to fix it. While we were waiting for her release I tried to give good safety advice; the basics “Don’t get out between floors,” “Make sure the car has stopped completely before you try to get out,” etc. Continue reading