By the way, as I type this, it’s -24C in Vilnius. Granted, it’s midnight, but, still. Apparently, it was -20C on election day on Sunday, and still 50% of the people showed up to vote. Talking to Lithuanians this morning (their time), they told me they were excited that school had been canceled. Why? Temperatures [...]
I’ve had a bit of silence lately, which was largely the result of the aforementioned power supply meltdown. But I was also in, like, Toronto over the New Year (hence, away from the internet, though Lokys is pretending to be a sort of mini-internet café for anyone who wants to peep hotties late at night [...]
I have done nothing but eat since I got home. Somehow, I managed to angle my brothers out of the computer seat to post the above brilliant line of prose. Brilliant. Astounding. Don’t even bother reading the insane science ol’ badams is tossing over in the land of the Giants. The above is all you [...]
Well, it’s done. NATO released this press release today, formally inviting seven nations, including Lithuania, to join NATO formally in early 2004. I’m not sure if this is what everyone expected–that is, for there to be this big a lag now between invitation to accession talks and formal joining, but I’m not an expert. However, [...]
Debesėli, debesėli, kur tu mus vedi? … mus palydęs nepabėgk! Some days it just doesn’t pay…they say. I’ve spent a lot of today bending my head around problems with the Lithuanian-American Youth Association and its Chicago equivalent. There’s a long-standing historical rift between the LAYA (henceforth called either “javljs” or “ljs”) and its (metaphoric and [...]
I’m excited about a few things. They are now indicated by the links to the left. Hopefully, you, too, will get excited about them. Most excitingly, aš dabar galiu lietuviškai rašyti. I sent an email to the Blogger people about character set encoding on these pages. But then I got the idea to write a [...]