Category Archives: me!me!me!

this and that

Posted on Friday, 2005 May 13 by Anton

I’m sneezing up a storm today, and the good old allergy pill hasn’t helped. I do hope it’s not the same virus that afflicted my housemate for two weeks last month. Who is the center of the movie universe? Kevin … Continue reading →

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il n’y a pas d’heure pour les braves!

Posted on Monday, 2005 May 09 by Anton

First day on a new assignment. I set my cheap Chinese alarm clock for 7:00 a.m. Awakened by daylight, I see that the clock says 8:08, and briefly panic; then turn on my telephone, which says 6:29. Evidently the clock … Continue reading →

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unAmerican

Posted on Saturday, 2005 May 07 by Anton

Movielens invites you to rate movies you’ve seen and offers recommendations according to your ratings. To my amusement, most of the top fifteen titles suggested to me are foreign: six Japanese (all by Miyazaki), four Chinese and one German.

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gravitas

Posted on Friday, 2005 May 06 by Anton

I called a locksmith today and he said he recognized my voice’s “heavy tone” from a previous job. I wonder whether that’s a translation of a Chinese idiom. Perhaps my voice was gravelly, as it sometimes is in the early … Continue reading →

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