If you’ve ever jogged in very dim light then maybe you know what I mean when I say that the “frame rate” of my eyesight seems to drop from that of a movie to that of a rapid-fire slide show. It’s as though my eye reduces its shutter speed in order to correct the exposure […]
Posted on December 30th, 2003 by Nils
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I didn’t know that the premise of Lost in Translation is based in reality. Western celebs in large numbers are moonlighting as actors in Japanese commercials.
Posted on December 29th, 2003 by Nils
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My dad has a milestone birthday today, so last weekend I took him on a road trip into the Texas Hill Country in order to mark the occasion.
Posted on December 24th, 2003 by Nils
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Afraid that if you order a newspaper printed on the day of your birth you’ll be on junk mail lists for the next 4,000 years? Be thrifty and surf on over to Time and see the cover for any date. I always thought there’d be a good reason for my love of gangster pictures.
If that […]
Posted on December 15th, 2003 by Nils
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Attention: An article on the ascendancy of African Anglican Archbishop Akinola in The Atlantic.
The most important figure today in the Anglican Communion, a worldwide federation of churches with some 75 million adherents, is probably a man few people in the West know anything about: Archbishop Peter Jasper Akinola, of Nigeria.
I was reminded of a killingly […]
Posted on December 9th, 2003 by Nils
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What would it take for the average girl to attract the attention, let alone the affections, of Rockets’ star center, Yao Ming? Former Houstonian Max Apple has a gem of a short story called “Yao’s Chick” in November’s Atlantic.
Li En minced no words: in Mandarin she told the truth: “I hope to become Yao Ming’s […]
Posted on December 8th, 2003 by Nils
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Googling one’s own name seems to be quite the thing these days for bloggers to do in their spare time. Of the 695,000 results for ‘jonsson,’ we come up 11th. Jonsson Shrimp Peeling Systems is #4.
Hmph!
Posted on December 5th, 2003 by Nils
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