I love this movie, mostly because the main character is a TCK who's good at math. And she gets the "girl from Africa" comments. And she's a chameleon. And the guy that likes her picks up a picture of her on an elephant, right before she stumbles out of the bathroom like any Americans. (Looks, sounds and feels awfully familiar.) I was never popular ( Read more... )

I found the page Robbie made from pictures of us doing homework. I laughed out loud.

...AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!111oneone ( Read more... )

I'm trying to use our RHEED system for the first time. The manual has a big warning on the second page: "The RHEED-system works with high voltages and may generate x-ray radiation inside the vacuum chamber. All viewports of the system must be protected using a metal cap or a protective x-ray lead glass of suitable efficiency." We don't have any. ( Read more... )

So.. from another BBC article about the US bringing charges of torture against Charles Taylor, the son of the Liberian ex-president"The indictment against Charles McArthur Emmanuel, known as Charles "Chuckie" Taylor is the first time a 12-year-old federal anti-torture law has been used. (...) The assistant secretary for immigration and customs ( Read more... )

The UN says that freedom for Arab women is a prerequisite for an Arab reneissance. Also part of the report ( Read more... )

Unlike the man who wanted to move to a country with no foreigners in it, I want to move to a country that only has foreigners in it.

Last night I got to a part where Friedman writes from Paris right after the US invaded Iraq. He wrote that he couldn't quite put a finger on it, but it seemed to him that Europeans were shocked and confused by the invasion and felt like the US had broken an agreement ( Read more... )

I just realized something. I'm in the middle of convicing CSN, the Swedish central study board, that I don't owe them any money back on my student loans yet, because I'm still a student. (Every year, they want their money back.) They want information about my income in Sweden (very easy to look up - 0) and abroad with respect to Sweden. (Abroad is ( Read more... )

I'm reading Friedman's Longitudes and Attitudes, a collection of his columnds about the Middle East pre- and post- 9/11. While he makes many excellent, informed posts supported by other investiagtions and studies, he keeps talking about evil. Seriously. Evil. He calls the 9/11 hijackers evil. Not that I'm disagreeing with the general very negative ( Read more... )