Month: January 2015
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Hot dog vending machine
Though I generally feel that America is ahead of Sweden when it comes to ridiculous items in vending machines, I do have to admit that Sweden wins this round - a hot dog vending machine.
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Environmentally concious?
People think Swedes walk a lot and use subways to be nice to the environment, but I think we know the real reason.
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IT’S PEOPLE!!!
I kind of feel like if you work for a company that has to state that it's not grinding up people for food on their 'about' page, you should probably be on your best behaviour.
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Our short attention span
Is the economy so boring that this is the only way to attract people's attention?
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It should be against the law….
The Swedes know he rest of the world would never define this fusion of substances that were never meant to be served together as "cake.
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Hey, I wrote a book, ya know.
I wrote a little collection of essays about being a Texan living in Sweden.
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Wild City Skaters
I'm planning on buying several of these shirts for my ironic hipster boutique.
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How to make the Olympics more exciting
7yr-old: Do they have waterskiing as a sport in the Olympics? Me: I don’t think so, but that would be fun. 7yr-old: Only if they had to jump over sharks.
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I’m a tap dancer!
Snow grippers are great until you get them caught between the ridges of an escalator.
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Please remove this creature
I wrote the doctor here in Sweden to make an appointment to have a mole removed. I may have mis-translated.
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The kindness of Swedes
One thing that's nice about Stockholm is that when you lose something, about 95% of the people will put it somewhere in the hopes that you will find it.
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Not my neighborhood
Today I got lost on my way to work and ended up in front of the Latvian Embassy.
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New Year’s haircut
I remember the time my friend got his hair cut by a barber named 'Shaky'.
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Thursday
This was the southeast Texas’ Facebook page this morning. Apparently they’re having some freezing temperatures for the next few nights. Here in Stockholm, we call this “typical Thursday weather,” and […]
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No, thanks
I'll try a lot of things - escargot, zip line, frog-hopping dances..... but this is where I draw the line.
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Pet peeve
What happens after people sneak into a room and pull papers from a file folder? Do they put the files back where they belong?
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Your friend died. Go play some Xbox.
I may be getting better at Swedish, but I still make mistakes. Our kids each had a friend over this week. One of the friends went home early and the […]