Morjes!

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

April 15th, outsourced

Jeremy was on the news here in Finland. You can see him at the 4:50 mark here. He is so cool.

The largest ever analysis of film dialogue by gender. Amazing work. [HT Andrew]

Set aside a block of time to read this article about a victim of the 1966 University of Texas Tower shooting. The differences between how we manage such events today and how they were dealt with fifty years ago are astounding.

Conjoined twins, a trip to Saudi Arabia, and a risky operation.

Here is a beautiful photo album of places in Syria. 1. I have been to almost all of these places. 2. It is a pity the images are not labeled properly with location and photographer. 3. But still, it is a pretty cool spread of photos.

The Czech Republic is going to change its name to Czechia, at least for sports uniform-related purposes!

This text message to a wrong number escalated fast (language warning toward the end).

The dilution of American profanity

Reasons I want to buy a car, explained by Jane Austen