Yesterday, I was searching through some old spiral-bound notebooks looking for some information I knew I wrote down a few years ago. Before I found what I was looking for, I discovered the strangest little poem scrawled, in my careless handwriting, on a page in the middle of one of the notebooks. I [...]

Here’s a novel idea! What if, bear with me on this, voters actually chose their candidates based on the candidates’ stances on important issues! I know that sounds like complete insanity. It definitely has nothing to do with the high school popularity contest with which we choose our leaders.
But just in case [...]

As I sit at my desk typing this, I’m facing east. This is why I’m often distracted by the sunset sirens calling me to photograph them from the window behind me. When I was living in England, my desk faced south, and the sun would come in from a window in front of [...]

Since November, 2005, my Pastafarian friend, Hubbers, and I have been signing our emails to each other with the word “mhnaty”. It has recently come to my attention, that Google is completely ignorant of this wonderful acronym. This is a travesty that I’m writing this post to rectify.

I’ve just found yet another ingenious internet meme that I feel compelled to spread. What a delightfully clever idea!

You give this foundation in Holland 30€ and a short message.
They give your message and almost all of the money to a non-government organization in Palestine.
Some Palestinians go out and spray paint your message onto the [...]

I was asleep and dreaming the other night when my brain did something that amazed me. I was so surprised that I woke up and pondered about whether or not it could have been an accident. They say that those dreams that manage to incorporate your alarm clock, or whatever wakes you, with [...]

Marga has always considered “planting a tree” to be one of those items on the “things you must do in your lifetime” list. Today she checked that item off the list. At a dinner party last night, we learned that some friends were planning on planting a tree today, and Marga couldn’t contain [...]

Like living abroad, learning a second language results in a lot of introspection about your own language, the rules that govern it (or don’t), and how and why those rules would have come to be. Also, as a member of a bilingual household, I find it interesting which words and phrases are typically said [...]

Just some mindless link propagation (MLP) here. I found this page interesting and thought I would give the dude some linkage because of his clever idea and implementation. Just another example of the power of the information being gathered by the social networking sites.
Anyway, check it out: http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/

After a year of digging and sucking, they’ve finally begun construction of a new apartment complex on a part of Colindres that is basically quicksand. Twice daily the tide comes in and the ground around the area gets saturated with water. The pipes they’ve buried underneath will have to be pumping pretty much [...]