Archive for the ‘Happening’ Category
A snowman comes to Georgia
On Friday, February 12, 2010, Metro Atlanta got a little bit of the weather that the northeast has been experiencing; a couple of inches of snow was just enough to cover the entire landscape, painting the world a beautiful black and white. I got off work early because campus was closing, and I took the [...]
February 14th, 2010Jessie’s pensieve: @ start of summer
In an effort to compile several small things that are on my mind, this will serve as small list of blog-worthy things happening now, that maybe work better when merely mentioned, and not stretched out for content’s sake (and therefore, in the danger zone “boring.” This is more of a personal blog than I usually [...]
May 30th, 2009Things you didn’t know about Wikipedia
Lately, I’ve been learning a lot about the world’s languages and the way language and words mingle throughout cultural relations and our modern lives. It all comes out in the weekly podcast “The World in Words,” available free from the same people who do “The World” broadcast on NPR. The half-hour show is filled with [...]
April 13th, 2009Wile E. Coyote and Apollo in space: eras past and future
I’ve just read the perfect illustration of what has happened to the United States; it came from the April 6, 2009 issue of Time magazine, and it was written by novelist and radio personality Kurt Anderson. “During the ‘80s and ‘90s,” he says, “we were Wile E. Coyote racing heedlessly across the American landscape at [...]
April 3rd, 2009Comprehension
Mandarin Chinese is both a thrill and a challenge to learn. Approaching it from the beginner’s end, it seemed daunting and exhausting and impossible. After all, there are thousands of characters to learn and comprehend by themselves; then characters can take on completely random meanings depending on the other words with which they are combined. [...]
March 4th, 2009Military history idiot
Anyone who’s heard my gripes about my American History class knows this guy already: Brooking, my professor. He’s a self-claimed military historian, and particularly into learning all about battles. zzzzzzzzzzzz….. Firstly, this is a class that I am taking purely because it is required for my major. While “America since 1890″ is on the General [...]
March 2nd, 2009A search for words
I haven’t written anything on this Web site in months. It has not been intentional neglect; rather, I have been lacking the inspiration to write. Not even the inspiration– I have a laundry list of things that inspire me every day in my life. And it’s not even that I haven’t been writing; I’ve already [...]
March 2nd, 2009