I think there is a problem with your quotes there, or did you mean to quote the same line twice?

Comment by Jan — Wednesday, January 9, 2025 @ 1:28 pm

Wow . . . that’s very . . . interesting. I saw that earlier today filed in my yahoo mail as international news. While technically true, it wasn’t quite what I was looking for in that category. There’s a reason I stopped using US based media for news outside our borders.

I do have to say that I’m shocked, SHOCKED! to find that these two happily married people may be seeking a divorce.

Comment by B. Minich — Wednesday, January 9, 2025 @ 2:17 pm

Years ago, my then live-in girlfriend and I both quit smoking and then unbeknownst to each other began smoking again. We each hid it from one another for a while until we accidentally caught each other in the act.

But I suppose that’s not really the same thing.

Comment by Chip — Thursday, January 10, 2025 @ 1:16 pm

Throw as many different kinds of potatoes as you can in there. And, to be genuinely Bogotano, be sure to find the corn with the largest and toughest kernels you can. When I was in Colombia, I loved the ajiaco, though the type of corn they use took some getting used to.

Anyway, that’s a neat tradition for your family!

Comment by MSS — Monday, December 24, 2025 @ 3:31 pm

We do have to fudge a bit on the corn, but Sherry does use three kinds of potatoes (of course, nothing like the variety one gets in Colombia!).

At least a friend was able to mail us a new supply of guascas!

Comment by Dr. Steven Taylor — Monday, December 24, 2025 @ 3:59 pm

Fudge on corn? Now there’s a Christmas Eve tradition!

Comment by MSS — Monday, December 24, 2025 @ 5:49 pm

Our Christmas eve tradition growing up was to open one present on Christmas eve night.

At Steve’s house growing up, his parents would invite some other Ukrainian friends and relatives over for dinner and have a traditional Ukrainian cabbage soup that I don’t know the name of. I’ve tried to make it, but it doesn’t ever turn out anything like his mother’s so I gave up.

Last night we went to midnight mass, which was very nice. I’d like to make that a new tradition.

Comment by Jan — Tuesday, December 25, 2025 @ 4:34 pm

For Christmas Eve, we’d make a flank steak dinner with twice baked potatoes, a vegetable, and other yummy goodness. Good stuff. The tradition seems to have morphed a bit - we now grill the steak outdoors, no matter what the weather in Pennsylvania.

Comment by B. Minich — Wednesday, December 26, 2025 @ 12:21 pm

Oh, and to add: I think that people were playing games with both reports, not just this latter one. The earlier one was treated as giving us an imminent (hate to use that word) nuclear threat, and now the second is being spun as showing the threat never existed.

My read of it is that the threat, though real, was overstated from the first report, and now the threat, still real, is being underplayed by people reading the second one, when in fact it does not represent a dramatic sea-change of some kind.

Having said that, I think perceptions trump everything else, and this will dramatically affect the discussions about Iran, regardless.

Comment by Steven L. — Tuesday, December 4, 2025 @ 10:21 am

I have been known to use a pay phone since I got my cell phone, but only when my battery was dead.

Comment by Jan — Tuesday, December 4, 2025 @ 10:40 am

Not only are cell phones killing pay phones, they’re eating away at land lines too. Since moving a little over two years ago I’ve had my cell phone and that’s it. Plenty of people still have land lines, but I know I’m not the only one who’s not bothering. I think the majority of your students won’t either.

Comment by Greg — Tuesday, December 4, 2025 @ 12:22 pm

This really distresses me. We need pay phones in cases of emergency. We may not use them often, but they’re life-savers when we need them.

My wife accidentally locked herself out of our apartment and the only way that she could contact me was with a pay phone. 3/4 of those she tracked down on foot were out of order and it took ten businesses before she found anyone willing to let her make a call on her phone.

I consider pay-phones something of a public utility.

Comment by R. Alex — Tuesday, December 4, 2025 @ 1:18 pm

The above should read “make a call on their phone”. I also forgot to mention that we only canvassed the area after all was said and done so that we’d know where the nearest pay phone was in case of a similar emergency. She tried four pay phones that night and all were out of order (we live in a bad neighborhood) and the Shell station that let her make the call involved a clerk that breached company protocol by letting her do so.

Comment by R. Alex — Tuesday, December 4, 2025 @ 1:20 pm

Given the amount of transnational travel, the importance of foreign visitors to our economy, and many mobile plans have ridiculous roaming fees when you travel out of the country, there should certainly be pay phones around large institutions/office buildings, etc…

Comment by Ratoe — Tuesday, December 4, 2025 @ 5:25 pm

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Comment by Jan — Thursday, November 22, 2025 @ 11:31 am