Comments for The Diplodocus

Comment on I Fully Admit: I am a Suit by fsowalla

fsowalla — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:18:08 +0000

Watches are one of those items you allow someone else to gift to you, be appreciative, and wear until the strap breaks.

Comment on I Fully Admit: I am a Suit by Joel

Joel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:46:03 +0000

I second the suggestion for a Skagen – lightweight, nice, pretty inexpensive. I have one and love it.

Comment on I Fully Admit: I am a Suit by Mom

Mom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:59 +0000

You should check with the other watch person in the family – that would be your brother-in-law. He really likes nice watches and may know some cheaper routes.
Mom C

Comment on I Fully Admit: I am a Suit by Sister

Sister — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:54:50 +0000

I vote for the G Shock.

Comment on I Fully Admit: I am a Suit by Tyler Beebout

Tyler Beebout — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:14:00 +0000

No watch is likely to keep better time than your cellphone, so the only things that matter are appearance and durability.

If you’re willing to wait a while, great watches can be had at chronoshark.com They show one watch a day, and they sell it for cheaper than anywhere.

If you’re looking for something with a bit more instantaneous selection, you have to consider whether brand name is important to you. What I mean is, there are some excellent fakes.

Check out http://tt88time.com/ I’ve bought a number of replica watches from them over the past few years, and always been impressed. They’re not flimsy, and the company seems reliable. From the two watches you linked, I imagine you might like Breitling.

For inexpensive, attractive, name brand watches, check out manufacturers like Nixon or Skagen.

Hope that’s some help. Love the blog, but I’ve resisted posting so far as I’ve yet to get my QEP results back, and I’d hate to get my hopes up.

Comment on Something for the (Foreign Service) Ladies by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:19:57 +0000

i am going into a-100 and if this post wasn’t so old, i’d totally date him. not looking forward to long years as an fso cat lady. . .

Comment on And Now I’m: Planning Our Next Vacation by ms

ms — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:21:38 +0000

hey KG, Nice posts. We haven’t met but am an Indian expat living in DC. I was wondering if you used a travel agency to plan this trip to Rajasthan?

Comment on So Where Have I Been? by Digger

Digger — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:09:14 +0000

I have never met anyone who said bidding was fun. I am doing it for the fourth time in four years (ah, one year tours…) and I HATE it.

Comment on Mobile Conoff by Driftingfocus

Driftingfocus — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:56:17 +0000

Yeah, due to learning the words most relevant to me, my Korean vocabulary is quite hilariously varied. While of course the first words I learned were things like “hello” and “thank you” (though not “excuse me”, strangely, as saying it embarrasses Koreans and is not suggested), I very quickly afterward learned the words for “photojournalist” (me), “policeman” (my partner), “diplomat” (his family), and “artist” (my family). If I had stayed longer, I was going to figure out a clever way to say “just use XYZ pronoun for me”, since Korean has about 8 levels of politeness in pronouns and yet no neutral one (it is impossible to be equal with someone – you are always higher or lower), and thus they ask you a million questions when they first meet you in order to try and determine how to refer to you; “what is your job?”, “are you married?”, “what country are you from?”, “how old are you?”, etc. Wow, that was an incredibly long sentence.

How often do you have to deal with the variation in dialects?

Comment on Don’t You Hate Pants? by Sammy Sullivan

Sammy Sullivan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:58:54 +0000

Kewl site man…

keep up the good work man…….