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People ask me to explain things to them sometimes, and so I do. My friend Felicity asked:
So i’ve been researching North Korea lately, and trying to learn stuff. I never really did understand communism…i mean i understand the idea of it…but it just seems really complex. So i’ve always been kind of [...]

While living in Finland, I much enjoyed the corporate cafeteria - the food was really, really good. There was one desert, in particular, that I loved, it’s really simple, they called it Finnish trifle, I think, but the real name is Pappilan Hätävara. It’s like pieces of cake and stuff smooshed up with [...]

I lived in Tampere, Finland from 2/99-8/01
I can fool Finns into thinking I am a Finnish native for 5 or 10 minutes at a time, as long as they are drunk and we are in a loud bar and I stick mostly to their non-glossed utterances (”mmm,” “yö,” “nii”) or simple phrases (”selva,” “mitä kuulu?” [...]