The World’s Oldest Doucheball

I was reading this article today regarding e-memory, which is a chronicle of everything that one experiences in digital format, made by using video and voice recorders to capture daily conversations and experiences. Does this feel a little ‘Big Brother’ to anyone else? And for the record, that is a reference to 1984, not the…

I made it through Germany on a ‘danke’ and a shrug. And that shrug was both acceptance and indifference. As a language of little interest to me, I made no effort to learn much German before I left, despite the fact that we would spend most of our days there, so I had to accept the…