Monthly Archives: November 2008

This is Cool

Apparently this is available now on the Apple App Store.  I will download it as soon as I get home today.  I don’t think the location-based aspect will work in Vietnam, but the ability to search by voice is pretty neat in and of itself.

This is a joke, right? Why not just run down the street?

Under the Banner of Heaven

I just finished reading this book and thought it was great.  I started reading it yesterday and finished it today – couldn’t put it down.  I’d read Into Thin Air by Krakauer before, and thought it was also very good.  Haven’t read Into the Wild, but saw the movie and thought it was awful.  Overacted, [...]

Thao Practicing English

Big Tub of Goo

I just got back home from a 90-minute massage and am basically a big tub of goo right now.  I’ve never had a 90-minute massage, I don’t think, and it was awesome.  Basic massage plus some hot stone action.  $10.  At that price, I am an idiot for not doing that about three times a [...]

Bustin’ Out the Vietnamese [Updated]

[Updated:  This is an essay I wrote for Teachers' Day, which is a holiday here sometime this month.  The school where I take Vietnamese classes asked its students to write an essay for their teachers honoring them for Teachers' Day.  So this is my essay.  I submitted it this morning, then went over it with [...]

What’s Up In the Nam?

I am bored.  As you might have been able to tell from the number of posts I’ve put up today. I’ve been at school all day.  Had my first class at 9:00am and it’s 6:00pm now.  I had to meet with my two groups of Industry Project students – in addition to my regular law [...]

“. . . we just weren’t allowed to say that shit before the election . . .”

What You Get for Drunk IMing

My buddy Jake and I were chatting on Google Talk a few minutes ago – which was about 4:30am Georgia time – begging the obvious question from me:  “What are you doing online at 4:30am?” and the perhaps equally obvious (to those of you who know Jake) answer:  “Bars are closed.  Not ready to go [...]

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