Quotable

"Being a billionaire isn't that great. It's not as good as average sex. Average sex is better than being a billionaire."

--Ted Turner, billionaire

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Since the city turned off the central heating as scheduled on May 15th, and it snowed the next day, and then it snowed again the following week, here's me at home in my winter deel (lined with sheepskin), in front of a thangka of the Wrathful Deity and a map of Mongolia.

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This is awesome.

“According to Japanese newspapers, Mr. Kadokawa (producer of the film) met Mongolian Prime Minister to ask the preparation of 20,000 extras from countryside for this film shoot.... It sounds ridiculous. He must have no idea about Mongolia. ‘20,000 people’ means almost 1% of the whole Mongolian population.”

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Photo by Dan Rosen

http://alreadythere.org/v/places/mongolia