The Cat’s Out Of The Bag

I may have to change strategies:
It seems that a little bit of flirting – smiling, raising eyebrows, nodding – goes a long way towards attracting a woman, even outweighing the negative effects of some men’s antisocial nature. “Antisocial men can make up a lot of ground just by being flirtatious,” says psychologist Andrew Clark.
I’ve always [...]

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De Hoge Veluwe

Last weekend I took a trip alone to Arnhem in the Netherlands. I originally wanted to go to Eindhoven because it is the city that the the 101st Airborne was supposed to capture during Operation Market Garden in World War II. Eindhoven was a little too expensive to get to, however, so I decided on [...]

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Pros and Con-gnates

On balance, I’m not sure whether it’s easier to learn a language in the same family (like German and English) or if it’s easier to jump to a different branch of the tree and start learning, say, a Slavic language. Specifically, I’m thinking of how cognates, and even more specifically, “homophonic cognates” (which I’m quite [...]

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And It’s Not Over Yet

This weekend I encountered many personal firsts: getting carded at a grocery store while purchasing kölsch,  stepping onto an U-bahn and seeing amazing quantities of human effluence all about the floor, traveling to the Netherlands, and riding a bike in Europe (well, this time around anyway).
Each of these had its pros and cons–even the vomit-strewn [...]

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Best Sentence(s) I Read Today

From a review of Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction:
Schumpeter “liked to disrupt faculty meetings by turning up late, still clad in jodhpurs and helmet from his daily horseback ride.” He would say in later years that his ambition was to become the world’s greatest economist, the world’s greatest lover, and the world’s [...]

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