links for 2008-09-11

"„E mişto aici. Că primeşti fără să ţi se ceară nimic în schimb. Acum vreo trei ani am băut cu o prietenă toată noaptea din sticle care ne apăreau în faţă. A fost una dintre cele mai funny nopţi de când vin aici“, zâmbeşte fata. " – Din pacate

"We fry things nobody ever considered friable – things like cupcakes, banana sandwiches and batter dipped artificial cheese…even pickles" ROFL

"This fits in with what's in the literature. "

"More than 90% of survivors of the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York delayed evacuating the buildings in order to carry out tasks such as saving their work, shutting down computers, changing shoes and visiting the bathroom"

"Reagan was twenty years older than I was. He was the age of my mother. So there was a generation gap. During one of our talks, he tried to lecture me and moralize. I said to him, "Mr. President, you are not my teacher, and I am not your student. You are not a prosecutor, and I am not a defendant. So let's not subject each other to lectures. Let's talk frankly and address the issues. If you want to lecture, we might as well wrap it up, because there's really nothing to talk about." He got a little upset. Not long after that, he said, "Why don't we go on a first-name basis? You call me Ron and I'll call you Mikhail." That was an important step."