September 2011

Friday Links

September 30, 2011

Happy Jew Year New Year! Links: Speaking of Jew Year New Year….. Soviet-era Kabul I am going to eat salt if I want to, damnit. Ewwwwwwwwwwww. It’s getting real in the Whole Foods parking lot OhmyGod I joined Goodreads and it’s like Netflix for books but better and classier. Goodbye, “free time”.  By the way, I just finished The Night Circus.  Review soon, hopefully. Does anyone else actively use it? Speaking of books…

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Movies: The Guard

September 28, 2011

I am swamped this week. Swamped.  I just took an exam last night and my brain waved the white flag.  As a result, I’m not thinking about anything except this awesome movie Mr. B and I saw on Saturday, and you should too, if it’s playing near you. This movie got me to thinking, what’s the real difference between Irish and Russians? And a la Stephanie, I made a Venn.    

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Facebook anxiety

September 26, 2011

I’ve written before about how much I hate Facebook. Not only do you never know what your privacy status is (I just assume everything I post is public), but, more to the point, it sucks you in. I’ve been talking about it with friends who agree, and I stumbled across this website of a famous IT exec recently. Life is pretty awesome when you live it outside. Get off Facebook, get rid of your TV, and go be interesting. Don’t ...

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Friday Links

September 22, 2011

My mom sent me an email on Wednesday with, “Twenty years ago, we landed in New York. You were five!” and nothing else.  It made me very emotional at work. I pretended that my database was making me cry. I thought back to when I was five, my dreams, goals and aspirations.  I wanted to be a novelist. I still want to be a novelist.   I loved ponies. Still do.  And I loved Sesame Street. Still do. Then I ...

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How We Learned American

September 21, 2011

I am so excited about this NY Times article about American kids learning Russian and going to a Russian school in Moscow.  Because it’s about time those hipsters get a taste of their own medicine. And by hipsters I mean American parents and teachers that teach their kids that each one is a special snowflake. More Americans need to learn how the rest of the world works. Here’s a video where Mr. B and I recall our memories of learning ...

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