Welcome! It looks like this is the first time you’re visiting my site. You may want to follow my posts by adding my RSS feed to your reader. Or, if you’re not sure about RSS, you can subscribe via email. On the shore of Lake Sinoe in Romania, very close to the Black Sea, lie [...]
» Go to this postWe visited Mount Vernon, George Washington’s own estate near Washington, DC, this past summer. If you don’t live in the DC area, you don’t necessarily get to appreciate one of the grand gestures done to honor George Washington’s memory, namely that of building a parkway (named after him) that starts right at the gates of [...]
» Go to this postNot much to say other than I like it. I had it this past week, and it’s got a nice, refreshing taste. I already like green tea anyway, and if you’re going to flavor it with lime, then sweeten it just right, I can’t say no. Oh, and it’s definitely much better than this stuff.
» Go to this postLast week, I placed bids for an unlocked Sony Ericsson K810i mobile phone on eBay. I was very happy when I won it at $192.50, considering that the phone sells around $230-240 in stores, and the Buy It Now price was $228 on the auction. I even felt bad for the seller that I won [...]
» Go to this postI’m a little late to the table with my thoughts on the new 5D, but I have an excuse: I’ve been traveling abroad (see this, this and this) and only now managed to sit down and think about it. There’s also an advantage to this: I got to read through the other reviews that have [...]
» Go to this postI’ve just got to say what I’m about to say, because it’s gnawing at me from inside, and I need to have it out. I’m not going to pretend I’m some economic guru, and I’ll use plain words.
My thinking on economics is simple. I understand tangible products. If an economy makes stuff I can touch [...]
During our recent visit to Austria, we spent a week in the village of Matrei im Osttirol (i.o.) [map] [reference], which is about 25km away from Lienz, and sits in a valley nestled between the Alps of that region. One of the mountains there is Goldried Mountain, and that’s where we stayed, at Hotel Goldried. [...]
» Go to this postAs I traveled around Europe, I saw globalization in action, and made the following observations.
Being able to drive through various countries without needing to go through customs checks at the borders was wonderful. Unencumbered travel is a great experience.
The preservation of local or national cultures is of the utmost importance as people from various countries [...]
Ligia and I were supposed to arrive in the United States yesterday. Instead, we were stuck in Frankfurt am Main for the night. We were on the third leg of our return trip to the United States, and everything was going well. We had left Cluj yesterday morning on a Lufthansa flight to Münich, where [...]
» Go to this postGreetings from Osttirol! My wife and I have been vacationing in Austria for the past week. It’s a gorgeous place to visit and, needless to say, I took tons of photos here. I’ve been carrying my Canon 5D and my lenses with me everywhere, and let me tell you, I’ve been sorely in need of [...]
» Go to this postSlow down. That’s a phrase not often heard in the US. At least not among the people I know. But it’s a notion that’s slowly starting to make more sense.
Americans love to think big and spend big. They want progress on every front, no matter what the cost. In the 20th century, that sort of [...]
On DC’s beltway, you can easily spot trucks carrying concealed military equipment. All you have to do is to go about your business, and you will pass one or two semi trucks every day, each carrying some big payload wrapped in canvas. While the trucks are generic, the canvas isn’t. You will almost certainly find [...]
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