This is just a dumb post to share some wonder with the world, although I'm sure like half of you have seen it.

( under a cut cuz it's kinda big )

I give you one reason Middle Egyptian is the best language to ever grace our fine history as human beings:

There is a word, šn. That humble little two-letter word, pronounced "shen," means "infested with crocodiles."

There is another word that means "heap of corpses."

Isn't life grand sometimes?

Whoooo got a 100% on the Korean-American Lit midterm after the curve? Oh, I know, ME ME I DID ME. (Plus I was apparently the only one to correctly identify and place a quote that was attributed to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha but which appeared in Ishle Park's The Temperature of this Water and Bonnie had to go and point it out to the class and make me ( Read more... )

My new favorite time-waster.

Just in case you were wondering.

Example:

(919): so I was just driving high and I stopped to let a pinecone cross the road because I thought it was a hedgehog.

I can't be the only person hoping that the Volkswagen/Porsche merger results in a company called Porkswagen.

Texas lawmaker: Asians should change their names to make them ‘easier for Americans to deal with.’Uh, wut. There's always someone willing to be stupid enough to make up for all the smart people we're trying to be proud of ( Read more... )

Stay up until 2:30 in the morning instead of doing your dumb 400-word essay on Nietzsche's theories on guilt and promises, all the cool kids are doing it ( Read more... )

Dispatches from a sick day ( Read more... )

Man, why am I so hungry? My stomach's all, "Feed me, Seymour!" and I'm all, "I just gave you two tamales and a hard-boiled egg, noisy!" Maybe some tea will help satiate the beast. I guess I better fortify myself, anyway, since I'm going to the blood drive over at Stevenson tomorrow to have them crack my veins open and harvest the red gold ( ( Read more... )

I have one question ( Read more... )