pantsfarm

So somebody asked me wherefore art I pantsfarm… well, actually, not so much, but I did get asked where the term came from. One answer is like this: I was in China last Summer, and while I spent a Summer there, I saw a lot of things. One thing that really stuck with me, and [...]

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I think it kind of amusing that I have gone from finding email addresses of people for one job, to finding email addresses for my current job. I suspect I could do it much faster if I just called up the phone numbers I’m so often given along with a name and company to look [...]

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“Modern technology makes long-distance relationships viable in ways previous generations can only envy. And yet having the ability to communicate constantly leads to the expectation of constant communication.“ edit: haha better get me a jerk-o-meter.

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Some passages from “South of the Border, West of the Sun” by Haruki Murakami. This one is from the end of Chapter Four. “College transported me to a new town, where I tried, one more time, to reinvent myself. Becoming someone new, I could correct the errors of my past. At first I was optimistic: [...]

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When I was in China, I didn’t tip anybody for anything. It’s just not how it’s done. Apparently, there isn’t really much in the way of tipping, per se, for restaurant service in Europe these days, in that there’s just a fixed percentage tacked on to the meal, called the service charge or something like [...]

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