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Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

April 1st, outsourced

Remember those book mailers we used to get and pore over in elementary school? This site has compiled a few examples and looking at them, I was almost overcome with nostalgia. Many of them are before my time but a few (February 1991, in particular) brought me right back to third grade.

I actually have kind of always hated the Peanuts comic strip. Not anymore.

Did you turn off your lights during Earth Hour last week? Here are some brilliant photographs of places around the world that did.

Not to cut into your ration of 20 NYT articles per month (though apparently you can get around the paywall by doing this), but here is one about how companies are not only cutting down the size of packaging, they're doing so in a devious and deceitful manner. Hmph.

The saying, "I know, right?" seems to fill some sort of gap in the English language. It's hard to explain exactly what it means, but you understand its function when you hear it...don't you?

Also from Language Log, a seriously interesting discussion on whether Sarah Palin's use of the word "squirmish" in a recent comment about Libya was a malapropism or a perserveration. They make a good case for it being the latter.

Finally, the 10 most segregated urban areas in America. The final slide blew me away.

What do the contents of my purse say about me?

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