(from Zoolander)

1.) My home State is Virginia, which is a very seasonal state. More recently I was living in Kyoto, which is also very seasonal. However during my year and a half so far here in the Philippines, I have not experienced a day yet without at least a mild sweat. So I found it pretty funny to hear the lyrics "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" ( Read more... )

Cebu has very "hard" water, full of minerals that deposit and are very hard to remove. I asked some people how to clean up these deposits and was told "muriatic acid", so I went to a grocery store and found that they may have more self space devoted to muriatic acid than any other product in the store. Most of the bottles are generic and just say ( Read more... )

Its so damn easy I wonder why I never tried it before; dip the Oreo into the peanut butter.... yummmmmy.

I updated my visited-states map posted in a previous entry

Living in the Tropics does give me access to a wide variety of excellent fruit for very little money.

If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend that you try out both the mango, which is well known and popular, and the less well known, and probably not directly related despite its name, mangosteen.


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The Ring

(a more accurate version)

Sometimes I don't get British humor/humour, but this bit I do.

I wanted to create a palindrome that used the word "palindrome". This is the best I could come up with in 20 minutes. It may not quite count as a real palindrome because it doesn't entirely make sense, but it almost does if you imagine a drunk Rastafarian nick named Pord who is chatting on-line with a friend about a question his wife asked ( Read more... )

I am an American ( Read more... )