The Galapagos and Japan: both island chains in the Pacific, both highly idiosyncratic, and both famous for instances of evolution — the Galapagos with finches and tortoises, Japan with cellphones.
In the Seinfeld episode “The Checks,” Kramer befriends a trio of Japanese tourists and invites them to stay at his apartment. Come bedtime, the guests happily climb into the drawers
As a foreign language teacher, the bane of my existence is online translation software. It’s like I’ve made a career teaching long division in the age of the calculator.
Let me set the scene: A few nights ago at about 9:30, I was dressed as Star Trek’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard, noisily beating two sticks together as I walked down