Random Thoughts Thread

[PaloAltoCougar]

We expected to spend the week with the entire fam (sans fils and his bride) at Tahoe jetskiing, hiking, and doing an astronomy show late one night. Instead, it's freezing outside and we're snowbound in a condo while the women play a Pride and Prejudice trivia game and prepare to watch SYTYCD. Parrothead is looking for an axe and keeps muttering "Heeeere's Johnny!"

This week is not going as I had planned.

[LA Ute]

We expected to spend the week with the entire fam (sans fils and his bride) at Tahoe jetskiing, hiking, and doing an astronomy show late one night. Instead, it's freezing outside and we're snowbound in a condo while the women play a Pride and Prejudice trivia game and prepare to watch SYTYCD. Parrothead is looking for an axe and keeps muttering "Heeeere's Johnny!"

This week is not going as I had planned.

Maybe you should review S.R. Covey's work on making your own weather. Then again, maybe not.

[Clark Addison]

I just got an email from Barack Obama that started:

Clark --

Someone is about to tap you on the shoulder.

I am sitting on my couch, alone at home. I have to admit it freaked me out a little bit. When the leader of the free world says that someone is about to tap you on the shoulder, you look around.

No one is here but me.

[hostile]

I just got an email from Barack Obama that started:



I am sitting on my couch, alone at home. I have to admit it freaked me out a little bit. When the leader of the free world says that someone is about to tap you on the shoulder, you look around.

No one is here but me.

Wait for it...

[mUUser]

Have spent thousands of $$ on my 2 girls smiles this year. I don't know why dentists have such a high suicide rate. Seems like a pretty cool job to me. A lot more interesting than an orthodontist. A periodontist or oral surgeon is the best of the bunch though.

[thesaint258]

No one is here but me.

That you saw. Those special forces guys are pretty good at not being seen.

[BoylenOver]

[wuapinmon]

Lt. Col. “Rusty” Nance was
blunt. The message to those wanting to be
part of the Army’s Special Forces is clear: “No
foreign language? No green beret!” He noted
the paradox of college graduates who
majored in a foreign language being unable
to do anything practical in the language when
they arrive for training at his language
school. He also stressed the need for cross
cultural skill, pointing out how some heritage
speakers of Spanish are unsuited for
assignments in Latin America because,
despite their knowledge of Spanish, they are
ignorant about the cultures of other Spanish
speaking countries. Special Forces today, he
explained, are in the business of building relationships with native populations

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Job security is good.

[TripletDaddy]

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Job security is good.

Totally. Your command of Spanish will likely be the clincher when the Green Berets are whittling down the applicant pool.

[wuapinmon]

Totally. Your command of Spanish will likely be the clincher when the Green Berets are whittling down the applicant pool.

I'm more like Special Force Us. Me refiero a los que necesitan aprender más sobre las culturas de hispanoamérica.

[FN Phat]

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Job security is good.

1 of 35,468,501 Spanish speaking Americans. Job security at its finest.

[wuapinmon]

1 of 35,468,501 Spanish speaking Americans. Job security at its finest.

I know, right? So many of them speak Spanish, and yet they know nothing of their heritage or the culture of other countries. There are always jobs for Spanish professors, especially good ones like me.

[Portland Ute]

I'm more like Special Force Us. Me refiero a los que necesitan aprender más sobre las culturas de hispanoamérica.

Do you prefer "sobre" to "acerca de"?

Is it a regional thing? Seems to me that it was more frequent to hear "acerca de" in Southern Spain than "sobre".

[Portland Ute]

I re-discovered an enjoyable healthy snack last night:

Yogurt (plain and preferrably Greek style) drizzled with honey, garnished with some crushed walnuts and then sprinkled lightly with some sea salt.

I like re-discovering things I used to really like but, for whatever reason, have not enjoyed for a long time.

[Donuthole]

Do you prefer "sobre" to "acerca de"?

Is it a regional thing? Seems to me that it was more frequent to hear "acerca de" in Southern Spain than "sobre".

Tambien en Guatemala. "Sobre" has a bit of a "bourgeois" ring to it, for some reason. I kinda like it.