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On fully admitting fall has arrived

Last week I took advantage of some nicely-priced Japanese eggplant, serving my first autumn eggplant of the year, but I wasn’t quite prepared to admit that we’re firmly into the fall season. The bizarre nature of Washington’s growing season means we’re Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 25, 2005 11:33 PM by jason | 1 Comments
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International spam

I found my business email account is now averaging one spam message per day advertising some sort of questionable Japanese matchmaking service, and about one or two messages per week in Hebrew. Every once in a while I get spam in Chinese or Korean, though Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:18 PM by jason | 1 Comments

Back home, and causing trouble

I had about 5 hours of sleep Tuesday night, and got myself out of my hotel just a bit before 7 am. I tried to grab something at the Corner Bakery location near my hotel in Chicago, and somehow I managed to get myself turned around and heading away from Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:49 PM by jason | 0 Comments
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Goodbye, Lenin

I watched Goodbye, Lenin tonight, which is a clever German movie that creates a virtuous Rip van Winkle and uses the fall of the Berlin Wall as the revolution the heroine, Katrin Saß, sleeps through. Of course, the twist is that she falls into a Read More...
Posted Friday, April 09, 2004 12:00 AM by jason | 0 Comments
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Korean class is hard

Since March last year, I've been taking Korean classes. I started taking pottery class as work got more frustrating, and then I remembered an ambition I once had in college of being capable of communicating in a certain number of languages by the time Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:00 AM by jason | 1 Comments
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