Pictures...
Dec. 17th, 2005 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundOkay, I haven't uploaded any pictures in a while, so let me fix this.....
This is the desert in Southern Qatar. I'm roughly 75 km from Doha, and I think about 10 km from the disputed Qatari/UAE/KSA border.
Looking north along what used to be the road linking Qatar and the UAE. KSA grabbed a narrow chunk of UAE territory during the first Gulf War, cutting off direct land access between Qatar and the UAE
Looking south along that same road. It's amazing, and spooky, how utterly silent it is. No wind, no animal sounds, no nothing. Nothing but sand, shrub, and silence.
This is the remains of a car I found along the former Qatar / UAE road. Slowly being claimed by the desert
More of that car. I suspect that it's going to look pretty much the same 100 years from now, if it stays there.
The scary things about these is they taste exactly like Roast Chicken.
Think of a cross between Cocoa Krispies and Quisp, and you have Chocos
It seems in the US, most of your "healthy" or "diet" cereals have to taste like particleboard or plywood shavings. In Europe though, it seems that they're at least willing to add chocolate - good chocolate at that - to the particleboard in question.
There is no way - no way at all - Kelloggs could get away with selling a diet cereal with chocolate chips mixed in, in the United States. Which is a pity, because I know a lot of people - women and men - who would buy this.
This is the desert in Southern Qatar. I'm roughly 75 km from Doha, and I think about 10 km from the disputed Qatari/UAE/KSA border.
Looking north along what used to be the road linking Qatar and the UAE. KSA grabbed a narrow chunk of UAE territory during the first Gulf War, cutting off direct land access between Qatar and the UAE
Looking south along that same road. It's amazing, and spooky, how utterly silent it is. No wind, no animal sounds, no nothing. Nothing but sand, shrub, and silence.
This is the remains of a car I found along the former Qatar / UAE road. Slowly being claimed by the desert
More of that car. I suspect that it's going to look pretty much the same 100 years from now, if it stays there.
The scary things about these is they taste exactly like Roast Chicken.
Think of a cross between Cocoa Krispies and Quisp, and you have Chocos
It seems in the US, most of your "healthy" or "diet" cereals have to taste like particleboard or plywood shavings. In Europe though, it seems that they're at least willing to add chocolate - good chocolate at that - to the particleboard in question.
There is no way - no way at all - Kelloggs could get away with selling a diet cereal with chocolate chips mixed in, in the United States. Which is a pity, because I know a lot of people - women and men - who would buy this.
