more of the same
Since I can’t get enough of the Economist’s brilliant Christmas issue, let me share two more articles with you:
- “The others” – on being foreign, living abroad by choice, living in exile, and self-deception
- “A Ponzi scheme that works” –all the reasons why the Economist loves America in one article … in case you needed reminding
Oh, I wrote to the editor about the confusion over types of verb aspect and actually got a response. Turns out I interpreted what “it” referred to in one sentence differently from what the author intended, so I retract my complaint.
I’m way behind on work and a conference proposal (though procrastinating on it), so it’s going to take me longer to write about Morocco. In the meantime, I’ll include beautiful photos of the desert like this one:
(That’s not me on the sand dune. It’s one of our Berber cameleers.)
January 8th, 2010 at 3:15 am
More pictures of beards and camels!
January 10th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
I’m afraid I don’t have any more beard shots. I’m disappointed at the low quality of the few that I have. But I have many more of camels!