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I’m currently back in the USA for a week staying with my family up in Maine. It’s a refreshing change of pace to be in a place where the color of the water is a beautiful sea green, and there are trees growing but not in rows, and so on and so forth, and basically [...]

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I’m just collecting some quotes I’ve read recently on the differences between the two. from portrait of an LBX Speaking of laowai, that’s the other word that gets our goat. Laowai — along with dialectical equivalents: lowei, waigolo, gueilo, etc. — means “foreigner,” but it is the slang way of saying it compared with the [...]

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Watching the status updates of my distant friend’s lives fly by I started wondering about how tastes change. I saw a few people I know going back to the places they went to college and from there one or two mentioned how they’d gone back to their old haunts. It reminded me a bit of [...]

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Some of the attention I used to put towards this blog I think has been diverted recently by those more micro- oriented sites Twitter and Tumblr (@rstadler and Tweedhouse respectively). That said, far and away most of my idle internet cycles have been ploughed into Quora lately (my profile being here).

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I was watching (well, not really watching so much as looking at the gamecast while simultaneously listening to an audio stream, video streams were just too crappy) for the NBA finals today and while looking for more commentary found some of these images which I was quite amused by. Most people in the office seem [...]

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