You know, I don't really care if you're orange or have tiny hands or ridiculous hair or can only make stupid facial expressions. I can forgive you for having a grating voice. I don't even care if you have a big ego or a tiny ego ( Read more... )

A friend of mine said that when she went to Argentina, it felt like home. When I asked why, she said that one reason was that everyone moved their hands a lot when they talked. She does this also (though not as much), but that embarrasses her mother who wants her to sit on her hands. So it was kind of exhiliarating for her to see that ( Read more... )

First of all, why are public rest rooms an issue? That's weird ( Read more... )

I've just finished reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables. Overall, it's not a favorite, but there a couple of quite interesting bits. Halfway through the book, one character asks, "Shall we never, never get rid of this Past? It lies upon the present like a giant's dead body! In fact, the case is just as if a young giant ( Read more... )

Person A: I realized very early on that grown-ups are liars ( Read more... )

The article Life on Severance: Comfort Then Crisis really got me riled up, giving me the feeling that I'm already living in an idiocracy. It's about how a lot of people laid off with severance pay keep spending just like before, actually getting job offers but turning them all down because the jobs they're offered aren't as good as their last job ( Read more... )

This book is supposed to tell me that I can make a real difference in reducing poverty. It starts off talking about the UN Millennium Project which I first learned about in the movie "The Girl in the Cafe" (which has a very fun-to-watch protagonist). The point is that we actually know how to reduce poverty; we just have to make it a priority ( Read more... )

Surely I did something of interest today. Oh, yes! I read blogs!

Blog entries of the day - While I was making dinner, I was mourning what an idiocracy the US is becoming. Then I read raaga123's Don't Go To Houston - "...the world we're all accustomed to is creaking a bit, if not actually popping rivets."

And then I read Madspark's Incompatible ( Read more... )

One thing I love about my country is all the many different subcultures. My two favorite subcultures are geeks and hippies. I love geeks because of their fabulous brains and because the below-average level of social skills leads to a below-average level of, well, various kinds of social lying. Too bad they spend a lot of time working on such ( Read more... )

Today's tour was a lovely tubing adventure, followed by playing around in some falls with a rope swing and then lunching on jerked chicken. All of that was very pleasant and all, but not the best part of this trip. (Although Robin also added in a zipline tour, which was one of the best parts of this trip for him ( Read more... )