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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • “Thank you for doing the work. It’s done now, so I don’t need it any more, so I won’t be paying you. Also you can’t sue me because you read my magazine once back in the 80s and it’s in the fine print, but here’s a t-shirt with our logo across the front and back, and a commendation on your CV. It says, ‘good worker, no complaints.’ That’s exec talk for, ‘you can screw this guy over without worrying, so go ahead and hire him.’”




  • I have heard the (Nepali-speaking) Nepalis didn’t even have a name for it at that point, and I have a feeling Qomolungma wasn’t known to the Brits, because the mountain was surveyed from far away at that point.

    Incidentally, “Tibetans and Nepalis on either side of the mountain”- it’s Tibetans on both sides. On the Nepali side are the Tibetan group known as Sherpa, whence we get the term Sherpa for a Nepali/Tibetan mountain guide. Further south than the Sherpa people are ‘Nepali’ people by ethnicity. (And of course properly there’s a lot more than two ethnic groups in a cross section of Nepal!)