February 2012
7 posts
Diploctionary: Project
1. An undertaking requiring thought, planning and execution, consisting of “moving pieces” and requiring proper timing and often cooperation between two or more parties. Closure is achieved through completion of the “project” with a “deliverable.
2. (diplomatic) An undertaking requiring more than five (5) minutes continuous thought, zero planning, slip-shod...
Diploctionary: Furniture
1. Objects that occupy one’s residence for the general purpose of posing one’s body and allowing socializing, eating, relaxation, rest, or alternately pain from non-ergonomic posing.
2. “” (diplomatic) for taking up space, adding weight to one’s HHE/HHG shipment, or causing financial distress when one’s children damage and destroy gov’t-owned same.
3....
Jazz might @ sound of music in Kathmandu, black...
Diplopedia
‘Protests’ in the third world are stretches of time when trash fires are moved from the side of the road to the center and when all shops and restaurants are predictably closed rather than sporadically. Also, politics is usually involved.
WatchTraffic on ring road, Kathmandu, Nepal.
January 2012
6 posts
1905 Farmer’s Market. Music, people, stalls...
One minute walk in the morning, Bansbari,...
Diploctionary: Christmas
1. The Christian holiday about whose primary purpose is to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
2. (diplomatic) The holiday before which one will go to any lengths to obtain candy canes, at the time of which one is accosted with an amazing array of parties consisting of excellent wines and cheeses, accompanied by one’s friends, and after which one will go to any lengths to get rid of...
Diploctionary: Earthquake Drill
1. A practice scenario wherein family members try to prepare for being shaken about physically and mentally in order to better survive the situation.
2. (parental) a power tool my son wishes he owned.
Diploctionary: Load Shedding
1. a purposeful disconnection of a portion of the power grid from electricity which purpose is to rid the power plant from power leeches siphoning illegal power from their paying neighbors.
2. (diplomatic) An event that, put to good use, can give your kids character and give them a deeper understanding of how political and socio-economic systems work. Also a good time for a candle-lit dinner or...
December 2011
1 post
August 2011
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