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chinpunkanpun

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2013.08.26

There's a word in Japanese, "chimpunkanpun"「ちんぷんかんぷん」. According to a dictionary, it means "unintelligible language; incoherent language; talking nonsense; "all Greek to me"; double Dutch; (something) incomprehensible; babble; gibberish; jargon; gobbledygook;".

I've re-named our kids accordingly.

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rand()m quote

Selfish leaders increase risk by placing themselves first. It's a fundamental mistake to assume that what is good for us personally is mutually exclusive to what is good for everyone. That kind of zero-sum game is for cowards, and in the end, we all pay the price for this type of latent, toxic leadership.

—Col. Eric G. Kail