Your Result: North Central “North Central” is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw “Fargo” you probably didn’t think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary.
Author: Eric, your haikuist
Eric-Approved Movies of 2007
Noel Murray’s blog post A Great Movie Year in the Making inspired me to update my own list of films I want to see in 2008. Some will surely suck, and probably the best upcoming films aren’t even on this list, but these are the ones I’ll be watching for.
the river of life flows by, placid and full of old leaves and some fish
I haven’t written in a while, mostly because nothing particularly worth telling y’all about has come up. Though at some point, I have to give some thought to whether I might follow my supervisor, Nando, when he goes to Montreal for his sabbatical this fall. A year in la belle province would be pretty cool,…
Adventures in Asia, Part 11: What Have We Learned?
I’ve been back in Canada a few weeks now, posted my pictures, written it all up in my blog. Here, I just want to write a bit about what I’ve learned. It’s not really advice, per se, since I can’t speak to how well this would work for, say, you. It’s just things I learned…
Adventures in Asia, Part 10: Osaka, Japan
The last part of my trip was a few days in Osaka with the charming and lovely Tyler and Carla (yes, charming and lovely, both of them). It was great to see them, and it was also great to be in a country that takes toilet cleanliness and comfort with the appropriate gravitas. Though oddly,…