Magnuhfeek

While contemplating how a cheap reproduction of Le Chef d’Oeuvre Ou les Myste`res de l’Horizon might look in my living room, I decided I’d like to know how to pronounce the name correctly. After a few minutes of searching, I came upon a great online demo of a program that allows the user to type [...]

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One Thing That Made Me Laugh Out Loud Last Night…

…was this, an article discussing Musharraf’s resignation from the presidency of Pakistan and mentioning what one of his predecessors, Nawaz Sharif, thinks of him.
‘I have no vendetta,’ [Sharif] explained, seated in his opulent mansion near Lahore, guarded by two stuffed lions. ‘Though [Musharraf] handcuffed me, humiliated my family, tried to destroy my party, put me [...]

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Feels So Right

I just read a Slate article discussing the author’s self-described eco-wander through Germany. He starts the article by writing:
While zooming by a field of wind turbines, traveling on a train from Amsterdam to Bremen at 200 kilometers per hour, I suddenly realized that I was experiencing turbine envy….I’d heard the very train I was on [...]

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Weltschmerz

My roommate was born in Mexico and immigrated legally to the US where he was one of my classmates at university. He graduated from a well-ranked program, speaks English fluently, has ten times as many American friends as I do, and as far as I know did not acquire his current job at an environmental [...]

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Rostock ≠ Never Never Land

A project manager at my past German internship sent me an e-mail talking about the firm’s involvement in the Hanse Sail at Rostock, a yearly celebration of the the famous Hanseatic League that brought so much wealth to the northern cities of Germany in times past. He also referred me to the a [...]

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