Last night while I was hanging out with my rowdies, I got a call with the good news – my Gandul article is finally published. Yeehaw! It’s in Romanian but here is the awful Google translated version. Perhaps soon I’ll translate it “for reals” but for now you have to get by with Senor Google. You can tell it’s been a while by the fact … Continue reading Gandul Article
In the lingo spoken by those who work in the financial world, the “wizards” who are currently running the global economy, a yard is another way to say a “billion”. If you speak Romanian (or Russian or a dozen other languages), you know that the word for a billion sounds like “mill-yard” in English and so hence the word “yard”. If you’re from the Indian … Continue reading 7 Yards
Today in Romania, as in many countries (including Mexico), is the “Day of the Dead” or Ziua Mortilor. It tends to be a little more widely observed in Transylvania and the Banat due to the historical reign of the Hungarians as it originally comes from a Catholic holiday. Around these parts (Unicorn City aka Cluj-Napoca) people have been selling flowers and candles for days now, … Continue reading Steve Jobs vs. Vlad Tepes
After a long day of work, I was half watching a BBC documentary when suddenly this image swam across the retinas of my bleary eyes and I leapt to the pause button to take the following screen cap: It’s taken from a 2011 documentary series called Bible’s Buried Secrets, which alas is missing the “The” in front of the title (due to the existence of … Continue reading BBC Dacia
Well I really had to laugh as the other night someone slapped a sticker on me with Paparazzi on you! handwritten on it. I had to laugh because, of course, lately it’s been kind of true. As the episodes continue to pile up, there’s still a lot more footage on my portable drives to share with all of you. So far 3 of the 5 … Continue reading Paparazzi On You!
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