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Happy New Year

Here comes 2012. New year, new possibilities.

December 31, 2011   Posted in: Miscellaneous  No Comments

Odd fortune…

My fortune cookie seems to be channelling JFK…

November 14, 2011  Tags: fortune cookies, jfk  Posted in: Miscellaneous  No Comments

Can you do better?

So a few days ago I stumbled onto this quiz. The game is simple; you need to place all African countries in their correct location and it records how long it takes for you to finish. What you see above is the results of my first try. I think I can do better with a [...]

April 16, 2011  Tags: Africa, quiz  Posted in: Africa, Miscellaneous  2 Comments

Wikileaks ruins Christmas

The latest leak is up.

December 18, 2010  Tags: video, Wikileaks  Posted in: Miscellaneous  No Comments

Happy 3rd Birthday Memhr.org

This December marks yet another year for Memhr.org (blog, dictionary and the rest); I can hardly believe that it’s been 3 already. The time seems to fly by…

December 4, 2010  Tags: 3 years  Posted in: Miscellaneous  No Comments

A rather biased definition…?

When I saw this, I had to share it with everyone; (from Toothpaste for Dinner, 5/27/2010): H/T: Language log

May 28, 2010  Tags: pic  Posted in: Linguistics, Miscellaneous  No Comments

I love an early spring…

…it’s just sunny day after sunny day… Goodbye snow, I’ll see you again in six months…

March 21, 2010  Tags: pic  Posted in: Miscellaneous  No Comments

Woke up this morning…

…and it snowed last night. A lot. Damn.

January 29, 2010  Tags: snow  Posted in: Miscellaneous  No Comments

Trying to make a dollar out of 15¢…

Here is a funny clip of two things: 1) a man showing you how to make $3.75 out of $1 2) a professor giving his students a quick (and costly) lesson on the game theory of political lobbying. If you liked learning about “the prisoner’s dilemma” and other zero-sum thought experiments in school, you’ll love [...]

November 7, 2009  Tags: game theory, lobbying, money, video  Posted in: Miscellaneous  No Comments

cityoneminutes – Asmara

A friend of mine emailed me this link a while ago, I really don’t know how to describe it. Here is a description of their site: Are you curious to know how people live on the other side of the world? What does Moscow look like between three and four in the afternoon? What happens [...]

October 14, 2009  Tags: Asmara, cityoneminutes  Posted in: Eritrea, Miscellaneous  No Comments

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