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SRK's Big Break
My friend sent this to me some time ago, but I just watched it on a study break. Apparently it's Shah Rukh Khan's break into Bollywood. And it kinda makes my day to see him so young!
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Earth Day
In honor of Earth Day, a repost from my brother's blog:
Environmentalism
Reflection built on sleeping poorly last night: "environmentalism" is a funny word. The following is a list of slogans based on that word.
Consolidated Mining Concern: Putting the "Iron" in "Environmentalism".
Naturalist Nookie Corporation: Putting the "On Me" in " ( Read more... ) -
Procrastination
I started to write this post in lieu of actually doing the schoolwork I was going to do, but then I started working on the schoolwork - and finished the first project. So instead of this post being about procrastination, it should more properly be termed "interlude ( Read more... ) -
Foreign Metaphors and Proverbs
Last night a friend reminded me how much I love foreign language metaphors and proverbs. There's something very fresh about them when you first discover them, and they allow you to see the world in a different way than before. At least, that's the appeal for me. So to round it up, here are a few of my favorites ( Read more... ) -
Ralphie
My cat's breath smells like cat food. -
The Truth
Every once in a while, I have a devastating breakthrough about something big. Education helps a lot with this - it opens our minds to ideas we'd never have on our own. This was especially true in undergrad when studying a foreign culture. I remember very clearly sitting in class one summer afternoon in Rochester, it would have been 2002. The ( Read more... ) -
Word of the Day
My new word for the day: magniloquent, meaning pompous in discourse; grandiloquent. Somebody wrote that Obama speaks with magniloquence (true) but I know plenty of people to whom that word could be accurately applied.
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Shell Shock
Have you ever had one of those Sisyphus dreams where you have a factory job and you have to do a simple task, repeatedly, but the conveyor belt keeps bringing you too much work at any one time? No matter how hard you work you can never seem to keep up ( Read more... ) -
Meant to post
Someone sent me this article over Valentine's weekend, and I meant to post it, but never got around to it. Still interesting.
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