A few weeks (months?) ago I had to adjust the comment settings on this blog because we were getting inundated with a ton of spam, including “comments” written entirely in Chinese (I know, WTF?) so I made it so that I personally had to approve a person’s ability to comment (after which, the person can post freely). I got a lot of comments from new … Continue reading Rebuttal
Here it is, yet another bloody anniversary of September 11, with “my” country about to kill some more Muslim people with the Romanian government’s blessing and assistance, and I don’t know if I can find any words to describe how sad and miserable the whole thing is beyond what I wrote two years ago in The Tigers Broke Free. However something happened yesterday which helped … Continue reading The Heavy Hand
Well today on Facebook I saw this post from an American friend of mine who lives and works in Cluj: Cluj crime alert: some guy in a (stolen?) uniform is knocking on doors, showing (fake?) ID and claiming to be a chimney inspector. He then comes into the house and issues a (bogus) license in exchange for a fee which proves to be strangely negotiable. … Continue reading Papers, Please!
Today I stumbled out of bed, bleary-eyed on a rather cool, rainy day. But two days ago the weather was quite sunny and warm and The Woman and I went down to see something billed as the “Hyper Parade of Animals”. You can see the poster for it here. The “hyper” part comes from the fact that it took place on the grounds of Cora, … Continue reading All Hail the Great Alliance
Oh mercy. My eternally vigilant internet eye stumbled across this blog post from a guy who drove his car 6000 km across Europe. Apparently his brief time in Romania was not so pleasant: The road down Romania to the ferry at Calafat is slow beyond belief even at night, single lane, very twisty and steep, heavy trucks struggle along and there are no places to … Continue reading Romania Isn’t Disney World
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