Too shy to speak English? Can you at least read it?

I think everyone knows that to learn a foreign language, it’s one thing to be able to speak it, and even speak it fluently; but it’s a totally different thing to be able to read it. I’ve been trying (on and off) to learn Thai for years. I think you just can’t teach an old …

Getting stuck in the lift

Our apartment building has two elevators. Easily enough, we’ll call them Left and Right. The left one is always “in maintenance” mode and stuck somewhere. But having said that, if its working we have caught it half as much as the other lift. Simple enough. That is until the other night! The lift had been …

A Hot Shower with Running Water

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Gmail Shortcut Keys

I’ve never used them, and saw an article today about them.. So I thought I’d give them a go. I looked them up, there’s a ton of them!!! Massive amounts of keyboard shortcuts to do almost everything in gmail… Let’s try it… G then S nope, didn’t work… Tried playing around a bit, different interfaces, …

A GIANT Rabbit on a hillside

Almost impossible to believe, but this is true… Follow the links at the bottom of the page… The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant …