Monthly Archives: May 2005

Cacao Symposium

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 27, 2005
I’ve posted a copy of the cacao symposium schedule on my website. Doesn’t it sound fantastic?? I’m really looking forward to it (especially seeing the vanilla farm). Tien
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Back from traveling…

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 27, 2005
…and already plunged into things! I’m almost through my second week of the once-and-future job. It’s kind of cool–I’m helping put together a new sustaining engineering group, but with an eye to turning it into a profitable business. This means I get to do a lot of entrepreneurial type stuff, and set up a [...]
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Mayan ruins, the Blue Hole

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 11, 2005
Today, Patrick (my guide) and I went off to see Xunantunich, the second-largest Mayan ruin in Belize. It’s not one of the big Mayan sites–Tikal, 2.5 hours away in Guatemala, is supposedly much more impressive–but it was damn impressive nonetheless. One massive stone temple, at least 4 stories high, a large courtyard, and several partially [...]
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Iguanas, and the river

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 11, 2005
I have turned into a crazed iguana stalker. Iguanas, you see, live in trees. I had never realized this before, having only seen them in terrariums, and, hilariously, once in a kiddie wading pool at the International Reptile Breeders’ Association show in San Diego…there were dozens of baby iguanas skittering around the bottom of the wading [...]
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More on sand dollars

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 10, 2005
This is fascinating. Sand dollars are actually very flat sea urchins (weird, eh?). The rough “hairs” are actually miniature spines (sea urchin spines), and they have little tube feet they use to walk around and keep from getting buried. The hole in the center is a very powerful mouth, and the five little “doves” that [...]
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