One Canard Down...
Not that it will matter to anti-Semitic propagandists, but Israel has been cleared of wrongdoing in the famous USS Liberty attack, by the National Security Agency, of all things.
"New documents released this week by America's National Security Agency support Israel's version of a long-festering controversy between the two countries: Israel's ( Read more... )
"New documents released this week by America's National Security Agency support Israel's version of a long-festering controversy between the two countries: Israel's ( Read more... )
I can tell from your journal and what I can sense of your personality that you'd be that way. It's very cool and something I admire and appreciate a lot in a person. When I was younger, I often went hungry rather than having to eat most western foods, which was taking it a bit too far. But in college and after, I was totally obsessed with Asian food, which I found to be immeasurably more interesting, and I was pretty partisan about it. I had Korean friends train me to make two kinds of Korean barbecue. I also learned a good deal about curry.
Since then I've branched out a lot, and I'm passionate enough about it that I'm compiling a sort of ethnic food map of New York City -- but mostly Queens, which is probably the most ethnically diverse neighborhood on earth.
So, if you were in town and wanted to go on a food adventure, I could bust out the mental databank and take you to the canonical places serving any of the following: Filipino barbecue, Korean tofu dishes, West Indian comfort food, Romanian or Georgian food, Brazilian churrascaria, a Serbian-Hungarian-Romanian butcher shop run by strapping Slavs from the Banat, et cetera ad nauseum. Besides working what is mostly a crap job and writing, this lumpen Anthony Bourdain thing is my life.
"i was really impressed with your interests list."
Hehe. I spent a crapload of time on that. No artifice, either, it's all true.
As for the girls, I guess my kaleidoscopic curiosity governs my tastes there as well. But most of all, I like my Canaanite queens and their phenotypical kin.
"btw, what is a "systems engineer"....is that kinda liek industrial engineer? and dont you have to be good at math to do that?"
A Systems Engineer is generally someone who cobbles together "systems" -- meaning accretions of computer hardware, software, networks and the policies that govern their usage -- in order to satisfy a company's business needs. For my big, nasty media conglomerate, I have built systems that provide services ranging from the utterly mundane -- say, IP address to hostname translation -- to the lofty -- such as the data-mining server clusters that warehouse and crunch the financial data that gets reported to the SEC every financial quarter.
"im not sure what i do well"
I imagine you do a lot of things well. You seem smart and good-hearted. You seem to kick ass with language. What else? Are you musical? What are you studying in school?
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if im in nyc ill let you know! btw, so you dont get a false impression not fluent in any of the languages i use...just have a "working knowledge" give or take...:)
i am definitely NOT musical, althought i LOVE music. and im not especially coordinated (as in dancing, sports, cant even ride a bike) although i love nature, being active, hiking, etc. i HATE driving, which is why i left la, where i grew up. i hate talking about politics, but i love listening. i love reading, i dont mind studying, and my concentration is getting stronger, probably out of necessity. yah, i love languages and food, and beautiful (and some not-so-beautiful) things. i just like to have fun and be happy.
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