So I looked at my recent posts and noticed that almost all of them were friends only, so I'll just use this as a general

Sort Of Friends Only

announcement.

Apparently, I'm not flocking (sort of) uni-related link dumps and videos. Interesting.

(Also, since I stopped caring for filters, I probably won't be adding anyone back I haven't seen around ( Read more... )

Oh my, this is such a lovely plaything: the Random Sentence Generator"The breakfast orbits." - hilarious ( Read more... )

( Cooking )

I'm reading stuff for the Economy and Society in East Asia lecture essay kind of thing, and in an article called "Whatever Happened to 'the Japanese Model'?" (which I like just because of this "whatever" in the title, yeah, I know, whatever), I came across a passage that reads ( Read more... )

Someone just rang at the door. This has to be in German, sorry.

Mann: Guten Tag, ich bin von der Deutschen Telekom. Frau E?
Ich: Ja.
Mann: Ist der Anschlussinhaber zu Hause? Oder wann kommt er wieder?
Ich: Der Anschlussinhaber kommt gar nicht. Mein Vater wohnt hier nicht ( Read more... )

I think the highlight today, apart from spending about 2 hours in the library studying Japanese after 2 1/2 hours of tandem, was the e-mail I got from amazon stating that they'd shipped out my camcorder ( Read more... )

1) Heh, Sherlock was actually entertaining! But this guy who plays Holmes... his eyes are creepy ( Read more... )

Do you know what I do when I'm procrastinating? I stalk the linguistics section of wikipedia. Something incredibly intriguing I found today while totally not avoiding finishing the protocol for next, uh, Friday or somesuch:

>> 2.2. Beispiele für Homophone [Bearbeiten]

[...]
* umfahren, die Kollision, die den Gegenstand zu Fall bringt, und ( Read more... )

...not only in Germany and Japan, it seems. I just found this le monde article about what seems like a new system of teacher education ( Read more... )

Please excuse the rather random capitalization of the Subject line ( Read more... )