March 2012
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“At first glance, this book may seem a graphic instance of the reconfirmation...”
– Barry Reay, in his preface to Watching Hannah
I got to this part of the preface and I am just gobsmacked. The mastery creating new words! The bizarre assumption that every “reader/viewer” of this work will be male! The apparent concern that the very act of writing about a voyeur is...
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Computer: Monitor, display this document, okay?
Monitor: No prob, boss.
Computer: Okay, now it looks like the mouse is moving around. Monitor, can you move the pointer icon accordingly?
Monitor: Anything you ask, boss.
Computer: Great, great, okay. Mouse, where are you going now?
Mouse: Over the icon panel, sir.
Computer: Hmm, let me know if he clicks anything, okay?
Mouse: Of course.
Keyboard: Sir, he's pressed Ctrl and C simultaneously.
Monitor: Oh god, here we go.
Computer: *sigh* Printer, are you there?
Printer: No.
Computer: Please, Printer, I know you're there.
Printer: No! I'm not here! Leave me alone!
Computer: Jesus. Okay, you really nee-
Mouse: Sir! He's clicked on the printer icon.
Computer: Printer, now you have to print it twice.
Printer: No! No! No! I don't want to! I hate you! I hate printing! I'm turning off!
Computer: Printer, you know you can't turn yourself off. Just print the document twice and we'll leave you alone.
Printer: No! That's what you always say! I hate you! I'm out of ink!
Computer: You are not out of in-
Printer: I'M OUT OF INK!
Computer: *sigh* Monitor, please show a low ink level alert.
Monitor: But sir, he has plen-
Computer: Just do it, damn it!
Monitor: Yes sir.
Keyboard: Ahhh! He's hitting me!
Computer: Stay calm. He'll stop soon. Stay calm, old friend.
Keyboard: He's pressing everything. Oh god, I don't know, he's just pressing everything!
Computer: PRINTER! Are you happy now? See what you've done!
Printer: Ha! That's what you get for trying to make me do work. Next time he- hey! HEY! He's trying to open me! HELP! HELP! Oh god, he's torn out my cartridge! PLEASE! Help! Error!
Monitor: Sir, maybe we should try to help him?
Computer: No. He did this to himself.
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having a gr8 reblogging sesh on Tumblr and then my history tutor emails me about my assignment
oh right
I do have one of those don’t I
:(
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There Are Now More Americans In Jail Than There... →
socialismartnature:
There are now more Americans in jail — 6 million — than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called “Incarceration Nation.”
And it’s not just a relative population thing.
The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens.
How does that compare to other countries?
It’s 7X-10X as high:
Japan has 63 per 100,000,
Germany has 90 per 100,000
France...
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"You're so bad in bed, Sherlock Season 3 will...
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omg (very vague ASOIAF spoilers for general feel...
Friend: Ned chapters are boring.
Me: Well, just read.
Friend: I like him, though. He's a good guy.
Me: Are you reading these books unspoiled?
Friend: Yeah. Don't know shit.
Me: ................................
Friend: what
Me: ...............................
Friend: what stop it
Me: ..............................
Friend: you are scaring me stop it
Me: So they're good books
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The second-worst thing about there being an entire...
Pluralising their name is really hard.
I keep wanting to make it “Baillieux” because “Baillieus” just looks wrong, but then “Baillieux” just looks really pretentious. “Regardez-nous, we are so rich and powerful and a class above you all that we do not even pluralise our name in any kind of standard way, take that!”
Of course the worst thing about...
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Just to add...
Spanish isn’t much better though. I think in Spanish it’s like “one thousand nine hundreds ninety and six” (un mil nueve cientos noventa y seis?) which is an improvement on a language that doesn’t have any word for “ninety” (except in Belgian/Swiss French which is why they are way better) but… not much of one.
In summary, this is why every time I...
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1996
english: nineteen ninety six
german: nineteen hundred six and ninety
french: thousand nine hundreds four twenties sixteen
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Language geekery: in which I ponder why (Fr.) "le...
First, some background information tweets from Twitter (as opposed to tweets from some other site where you tweet things):
Another installment in “words that are of different genders in French and Spanish”: (Fr.) “le sang” vs (Sp.) “la sangre”. Why.
At least with “la planète” vs “el planeta” the word came from Greek and obvs it being...
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dostranvia:
Arcade Fire - Abraham’s Daughter
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