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Singing in the Snow
... well, not while actually in the snow, but during the time it was snowing last night, I went to a noraebang with a group of co-workers.It began innocently enough as a meeting of the Research Committee. Mind you, the Research Committee doesn't do research, and it wasn't a meeting so much as an opportunity to eat and drink for free. Dinner was smoked duck at a restaurant near Balsan station, delicious:When we left this place, there was already snow on the ground. We stopped in at a small...
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Kolja
I can't believe that I missed the Oscar's yesterday. I guess that's just one of the drawbacks about living overseas...some things just seem so far away. Oh well...missing the Oscar's and the Super Bowl is nothing when compared to all that I get to see and do over here in Europe.But in honor of the Academy Awards I figured I'd post about one of my favorite movies, called Kolja (pronounced Kol-Ya). It's a Czech movie and it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film in 1997. Even though the...
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iPhone outselling all individual netbook vendors
A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into mobile devices (the fourth time this regular survey was conducted) found that the iPhone far outsold ASUS’s Eee PC, the top netbook. Demographics On the 9th of February 2010 1,080 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.1% of the sample were male, 17.0% in their teens, 18.7% in their twenties, 21.2% in their thirties, 16.5% in their forties, and 26.6% aged...
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Avatar: A Film Review
Well, we finally succumbed to the hype and went to see Avatar. A friend had told us she had heard it was "anti-American." No worries on that score. I see it as profoundly American in its depiction of the perennial battle within the American soul between the individual and the collective vision, between self-interest and idealism, between the avid pursuit of material gain and ecstatic transcendentalism. If there are, on the one side, the abject creatures of American capitalism, the other...
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Trial of American puts spotlight on the business of ?state secrets' in China
BEIJING – Officially, the trial of American geologist Xue Feng is about state secrets. He’s accused of exporting sensitive information abroad for helping his Colorado-based employer buy a database about China’s oil industry. But Xue’s attorneys say Chinese authorities pursuing the case have another motivation: commercial competition. When Xue bought the surveys and maps for use in his company’s research reports, the information was openly available. It was only...
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How to Live Overseas
A lot of people wonder how we go about living in a foreign country without knowing the language. I have to admit I can understand where this incredulity from our fellow Americans comes from. We (as in Americans) think of that once-in-a-lifetime trip we took to Mexico for a week or two, thinking to ourselves that vacationing without language is hard enough but how could we ever go about renting an apartment, getting a job, paying the bills, buying groceries, or even figuring out how to take out...
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Live from Locohama S1/E15: The Calling Card
Last night at an izakaya in Yokohama: Me: Ok, I got one. A Frenchman moves into a gaijin house where a German, an Italian and an African-American live and… My boy: Wait…the German, male or female' Me: Male, but that’s not… My boy: …and the Italian' Me: He’s a guy, too. But that’s not important… My boy: But, African-American is important, right' Me: Ummm…actually, it isn’t…he can be any American… My boy: Then why did you...
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I pity the fool....who would buy this oven
Transplanting overseas adverts into the local media is nothing new, but this is one of the funnier ones. Like George Foreman before him, what is Mr T doing selling kitchenware'
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How British citizens living overseas can vote in UK election
IF a general election is to be held in the UK it must take place by June 3, 2010, and if you want to cast your vote you will have to be registered. Any British citizen who is over 18 and has been on a UK electoral register within the past 15 years can register to vote in UK general and European elections from overseas. It is possible to register to vote from overseas through the Electoral Commission's About My Vote website, which requires you to enter the post code of your last address. The...
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Hating your foreign tour guide
goo Ranking recently took a look at when people think their tour guide on an overseas holiday is terrible - the foreign in the title refers to the location, as the guides may either be Japanese or local. Demographics Between the 20th and 22nd of January 2010 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.1% of the sample were female, 19.9% in their teens, 29.5% in their twenties, 30.5% in their thirties, and 20.1% in their forties. Note that...
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