my ridiculously circuitous plan

A year and a half of inactivity means it's time to officially declare my ridiculously circuitous plan old and busted. Head over to tramm...

The tenor of the health-care slapfight (I'll not dignify it with the word debate) in the United States of late is... well, frankly, emb...

U+1DE7 COMBINING STACK OF DIAERESIS FALLING RIGHT, used primarily for native English speakers trying to pronounce Swiss German. (Yes, I know...

Happy New Year, all! 2009's turning out to be a good one. So far, I've learned how not to play the digiridoo and how not to ski. At ...

So, I apparently now how to speak German now, at least a bit. Finished the first course this week, passed the final, did quite well aside fr...

One advantage of the fact the sun doesn't rise 'til eight in the morning here these days is you can drag out of bed at the usual tim...

It's two on a Sunday morning, and I'm coming up on the last twenty-four hours of my first six months in Switzerland. I've just r...