February 2010
13 posts
“Hugging him, there didn’t seem to be anything broken.”
– Paul Park via The Associated Press: Missionary who was held in N. Korea arrives in US
“I think our food is Taiwanese not because I’ve seen it in Taiwan or...”
– Eddie Huang via Fresh Off the Boat
“Boom. It busted off, and I saw him clawing for the edge with a startled look on...”
– ‘Happy-go-lucky’ climber knew of danger, loved mountains - CNN.com
Annals of Mathematics: Manifold Destiny : The New... →
Perelman was pleased to be in the United States, the capital of the international mathematics community. He wore the same brown corduroy jacket every day and told friends at N.Y.U. that he lived on a diet of bread, cheese, and milk. He liked to walk to Brooklyn, where he had relatives and could buy traditional Russian brown bread. Some of his colleagues were taken aback by his fingernails, which...
Pho Catch 22
themattsmith:
Pronouncing it the anglicized way, “foe”, is seen as such an Ugly American thing to do.
Pronouncing it the proper way, “fah”, is seen as such a douchey thing to do.
White people have the stupidest problems.
“Great to see someone taking his ten minutes of fame and doing everything he can...”
– General Larry Platt: No pants on the ground at the Grammys – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs