Title: Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes ( Read more... )

Villach has a handful of Asian food restaurants ( Read more... )

This set of reading was motivated by a desire to ameliorate the large gaps in my knowledge about Native American history post 1860's. Its success is only moderate. I still have large gaps in my knowledge ( Read more... )

In January 2014, I decided to learn how to ski. I was living in the middle of the Alps, and it would have been a crying shame not to take advantage of the fact. I had snowboarded for a weekend or three 10 years prior, but had never been on skis. A couple of friends from work and I arranged for lessons at the Dreiländereck ski resort. It's ( Read more... )

My CarI get to work by car. There is the option of taking a train, but it leaves once an hour, and my schedule needs to be more flexible. I have been driving a rotating group of rental cars, all VW Golfs, about 5 by now, none of which have been identical. They are 5 or 6 gears, Benzine (gas) or Diesel, skylight or not, different locations for ( Read more... )

I moved to Austria without knowing any German in advance. It was a fairly sudden thing, and I could get by in English, so I moved without worrying too much about language ( Read more... )

So I have been living in Kärnten, Österreich (or Carinthia, Austria) for the past 7 or 8 months now, and may as well talk about it. I tend to think of it as Kärnten, Austria, simply because I learned the name of Austria in English, and the name of Kärnten in German, but the correct, 1 language forms are as you see above ( Read more... )

From c.t.qq.com, today ( Read more... )

This one is from QQ. Specifically c.t.qq.com, the comedic section of the microblog section of QQ ( Read more... )

[A group of people are waiting to use the ATM. One ATM is not working.]Person 1: Huh, that's odd, they're saying the ATM is out of order in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Vietnamese, something that looks like Czech, Italian ... probably Portuguese ... hm, don't recognize that one ( Read more... )