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Mon
25
Sep '06

Answers to “Fun with Russian”

So, answer time. For a refresher, the challenge was to insert appropriate spaces to turn this into intelligible Russian:

kolokolokolokola

Ammon von Lovell found three answers, but I’m only aware of two, so I’ll be curious what he found that I didn’t.

Here are my two:

Mon
18
Sep '06

¡Felliz diesiochera!

Today is the Chilean Independance day! How I wish I could go back for the festivities. Good food and great friends. 5 years ago I spent this day in the community of San Miguel of Santiago. Here is a picture of that day at a church party, one of 6 ladies dressed to dance the [...]

Mon
18
Sep '06

He had horses

As an innkeeper for a Bed & Breakfast, I don’t get time for myself, unless I have a night with no guests. When that does happen, I acutally get a few hours for myself that next morning. When I have a free morning, I like to get on my bike and ride around this small [...]

Sat
16
Sep '06

Fun with Russian

The following Russian sentence has a number of words in it, but the spaces between them have been removed. Can you figure out where to put the spaces to make this a meaningful (and gramatically correct) sentence?

Mon
11
Sep '06

Where were you?

11 September 2001 started like any other day for me. Well, kind of, I was serving a mission in the wonderful country of Chile, in the city of Santiago. Through out the week I was given a brief lesson on the history of Chile. The 11th of September is the anniversary of the coup d’etat [...]

Mon
11
Sep '06

5 Years ago Today

I imagine the internet is going to see of lot of these “where I was on September 11″ posts, so I might as well write one too. Really, I think my story is kind of unique and might be worth sharing.

Thu
7
Sep '06

Success vs. Happiness

Lately, I’ve become increasingly enamored with a woman named Kathy Sierra. Ok, not really with her – I don’t even know her – but with her writing. Kathy’s post today is particularly striking. “Success” should not mean “Management” basically questions the entire model of how promotions in business work. She points out that while businesses always want to promote their people into management positions, a lot of people (especially technical people like programmers and engineers) don’t want those jobs. They take them because the pay and benefits are better, but they don’t necessarily involve doing the things they actually want to do.

Mon
4
Sep '06

The official wedding invitation picture

I’m very proud of us the last few days. We’ve actually managed to make decisions. We have a menu for the reception. We decided on decorations (which will nicely reflect the colors that she..er…we picked, even though I still can’t identify the exact shade of blue that is the key color of our wedding). Perhaps [...]

Sun
3
Sep '06

Two to zero

I have a sad tale to cry. My car is dying, maybe. This car stalls and rattles when driving slower than 30 m.p.h. There appears to be somthing wrong in one of the cylinders. This could be an easy cleaning job, or it could be a really expesive fix. If it is the latter, it [...]