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Truffle Shuffle update
You would never guess what Chunk looks like these days: LINK Update: This is more like what I’d expected: LINK
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In class just now…
…a student just told me I forgot to set my Gmail Talk status to “teaching.” Thanks for that. FYI, I hardly ever turn on Skype anymore and gave up using…
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Coupla quick links 6/19/10
Anthony Bourdain: My war on fast food An edited extract from his new book; the gist is that he hates fast food almost as much as he once loved cocaine,…
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ESL Lesson of the day – Son of of Bitch (i.e., Son of Bitch)
This video of a Korean English teacher explaining choice bits of slang and expletives had me snorting with laughter: My favorite ESL-related clip of all time, though, is Harold Ramis’s…
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nod
Max stared at this almost as long as I did.
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Max is staying home from school
…all this week so we can knock out this deep cough he’s had for a couple weeks, in addition to some eye infection we’re keeping check with eye drops… It…
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Google Talk Plugin Crash – Windows 7 Home Premium
I bought an ASUS UL30A laptop when we were in the states to replace my trusty, crusty old Dell Latitude x300 that lasted for seven whole years and still wouldn’t…
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The Newspaper equivalent of the Wilhelm Scream
Check it out here and here. This, of course, is the Wilhelm Scream:
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The Making of Ulan
That’s what happens when it gets too tiresome to write about what really happened.
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Ulan
The other day, I was dozing off in the pre-dawn glow coming through the French windows in our living room when I suddenly remembered something that happened on the flight…
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Snail curry
I just came back from lunch with a bag of (aquatic) snail curry that I accidentally ordered at a new restaurant located just behind our campus. It looked like an…
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Sticky Rice as Mortar Strengthener
This should make the builders in our area very happy: How ancient China was built on sticky rice, literally
