You Can Obtain Your ID at the Magistrate
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Diary of a Mad Patent Translator
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On Finally Riding My Old Horse Into the Sunset
A couple of nights ago I kept waking up and only after that was-I finally blessed with a solid REM sleep towards the morning. The last dream, which I remembered vividly when I woke up, was that I was back to translating Japanese patents full time, listening to God who was whispering into my ears [ ]
How Does the Health Insurance Work for Me Here in Czechia
In about three months I will have been living here in Ceske Budejovice for 8 years already. I have to say, the health insurance system here is not easy to figure out for somebody who had been living in the American healthcare system from 1982 until 2018. Just about everything works differently here, and at [ ]
A Ring for Tying Up Your Horse Is There Next to the Elevator
I have been living on the third floor of an old building, or let’s call it a historic building, for the last three years. I love this old building and I will stay in my present apartment for as long as possible. I moved four times since I came to Ceske Budejovice in October of [ ]
Love Without Fighting Is Not Real Love
Americans say “I love you” all the time, a little bit too much perhaps. They say it for instance to their kids when the child is about to leave the house to go to school, and the child dutifully repeats it back to them. (Or not, if the teenager is for some reason pissed at [ ]
Artificial Intelligence Is a Major Threat to All of Us!
Artificial Intelligence Is a Major Threat to All of Us!
How to Be Born in at Least Three Places at the Same Time
Unsurprisingly, like most people, I was born only once. But perhaps unlike most people, I was born in three places at the same time and I have the paperwork, specifically three different birth certificates, to prove it! How did I pull off something like that, you might ask. Well, I did not do anything at [ ]
The Pleasure of Reading
Reading gives me a pleasure that is not comparable to anything else, an enormous pleasure that I have been enjoying since I was about 6 or 7 years old. I still remember how wonderful it felt when I read my first “book”, written for little children. I remember the title, it was called in Czech [ ]
“If I Could Do What You Are Doing Now, I Would Do It in a Heartbeat”
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. – Robert Frost I could not go to my original home for a long time, for about 9 years. First in the early eighties when I lived in Germany between 1981-82, and then when I lived in California [ ]
Some More San Francisco Memories from the Eighties
I used to live in the city of San Francisco between 1982-92. At first, I worked for 3 years as a so-called multilingual Visitor Services Representative helping visitors from US and abroad, mostly Europe and Japan, to enjoy their stay and spend their money in San Francisco and California. I was able to land this [ ]