Disaster Movies
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Posted in canada, education, politics, quotes, science, thought | No Comments »As a captive to the vision of the director, you, the audience of a disaster movie, are presented with a character or set of characters with which to sympathize. Of course, they are likable, or at least have some redeeming ...
How to Pick the Best Foreign-Language Translation
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Chinese, language, literature, quotes, thought | 8 Comments »As I mentioned in my earlier post Adventures in Russian Translation, I read a lot of foreign books. Nowadays, I estimate that I read more books that have been translated from foreign languages than originated in my own. ...
Adventures in Russian Translation
Monday, November 19th, 2007 Posted in language, quotes, thought | 2 Comments »As you may have noticed, I've been on another hiatus lately... November has been an extremely busy month for me. I'm participating in the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) this month and it'll be zapping all my writing energy ...
The city, she loves me
Sunday, May 20th, 2007 Posted in canada, opinion, personal, quotes, thought, vancouver | 2 Comments »Since my cousin moved back to Vancouver from Manhattan, I've noticed that she has a strange, urban serendipity about her: every time she walks to a street corner, the light instantly changes in her favor. I'm not kidding about ...
…WTF? (+ politics)
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 Posted in canada, education, news, opinion, personal, politics, quotes, thought | No Comments »I usually try to save my links until Saturday, but holy crap. BOSTON - An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow." ...
Coffee-related phenomena
Thursday, December 7th, 2006 Posted in coffee, personal, quotes, thought | No Comments »As those who know me interact with me on a regular basis in real life will attest, I am rarely seen without a cup of coffee in hand. In fact, if asked to describe me to someone else, my ...
Colloquialism
Friday, November 17th, 2006 Posted in quotes, thought | No Comments »While reading an article posted by College Parent in her blog College Admissions Madness, I came across the following phrase: "...and every teenager is spoiled with too many luxuries." It provoked one of those thoughts that has come in ...
“Someday.”
Thursday, October 5th, 2006 Posted in personal, quotes | No Comments »Ever have one of those persistent-yet-passive thoughts? Think, "I should write a novel someday," after you read a nice book? Wonder why the sky is blue, then fail to follow through with your curiosity? Contemplate starting a ...
