Lara: "Hm, it smells like animals in here."
anonymous: "It's all the Kyrgyz."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 15 April 2008
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[edit] added: 15 April 2008
"Where's the rice at? No, the good rice, this is the rice with rocks in it."
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heard: 14 April 2008
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[edit] added: 14 April 2008
"I'm scared of your fridge. I never know if it's some strange experiment or food."
Lara goes on adventures in Jonathan's apartment
compliments, food, badness, technology, science, insults, scariness
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heard: 13 April 2008
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"So I was reading this ethnography written by this Russian guy who went to what's now Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in 1913. Apparently, in the jayloo, the women do everything, even up to herding the animals; the men sit around on a rock or sit around and sun themselves; when they get bored, they pull out their shotgun and shoot a marmot, and skin it while the women cook dinner. All they've done is brought that system down into the city."
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heard: 13 April 2008
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"I've found that mayonaisse enhances the flavour of a lot of things."
seriously, used to gross me out, but living in Kyrgyzstan seems to've changed that
food, SSSR, sadness
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heard: 12 April 2008
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[edit] added: 12 April 2008
"‘Surly?’ In Russian—what's the opposite of malodetz? Staridetz. ‘Surly.’"
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heard: 11 April 2008
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[edit] added: 11 April 2008
(23:21:17) Michael: i have to actually start writing the journal paper version of my thesis soon
(23:21:33) Michael: before i forget what i did
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heard: 11 April 2008
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[edit] added: 10 April 2008
(11:18:41) kesuari: there's a corner of hell where people write Microsoft Office-style suites in TeX
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heard: 9 April 2008
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[edit] added: 9 April 2008
(18:45:25) kesuari: i never know how to assess girls
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heard: 27 March 2008
[edit] added: 26 March 2008
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[edit] added: 26 March 2008
"Well, it's like a protein bar."
