So! My final paper topic in the class I'm taking this semester is "Development of Ethos in Translation and Localization." Since all of you are giant geeks, I was wondering whether any of you have a favorite article or blog post you've read on what's important in localizations of media. It can be video games, manga, Harry Potter, whatever. It just ( Read more... )

So you know how apparently I just can't stop thinking about and looking at people's lapels, because it's like my life now or something? Well, I went over to Court Records just now to use it in an online discussion for another class, and while I was there, I thought I'd look through the sprites, just to see where all the peaked lapels were ( Read more... )

You know how you went to bed last night? Well, I didn't. But I got my presentation done, so that's something! It turns out there is more to say about lapels than I realized even two days ago, so now it's a presentation about just peaked lapels on just men's suits in the sixth and seventh seasons of Law & Order, and it will go at least half a minute ( Read more... )

I came so close to posting this in the online discussion I'm leading:

About language existing outside the individual, do you suppose this means that when computers finally become sentient and start slowly filling our heads with code with the intention of simultaneously making us intellectually sluggish and leaving messages for other computers to ( Read more... )

I have so much homework this weekend that I took Friday off to work on it. Watching the Super Bowl is right out, so I guess it's just as well that the Vikings aren't playing ( Read more... )

So last night, a block away from where I had been walking from class to my car three hours earlier, a student got shot in the chest for no reason.

From the chapter on human error in one of my textbooks, The Design of Everyday Things (a very interesting book in its own right, even--especially?--with all the dated technological references ( Read more... )

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Hey, knowledgeable flist--

My final project for my Japanese class is on New Year's songs and bell ringing, and I was wondering if anyone had any relevant links handy that Google might not be able to find, or had any advice on what I definitely shouldn't forget to mention. In return...well, whatever you want. I'm easy.

Finally looking at classes for next semester. There are two I have to take, two I want to take, and two that Dr. Lewin thought I should audit, and all six of them are at different times. HOW?

Now my only problem is that I might have six classes next semester.