I accidentally fell into doing an experiment yesterday that I think I'll continue. It started just because I was saying "Hello" to people that I passed. After the third time that I consistently got a "Hi" back, I thought it was interesting. Since then, I've received five more "Hi"s and one "Hey". No one has said "Hello" back. cindygerb thinks this is ( Read more... )

I pulled the following from zanfur from here. I've kept it up in a tab for a while for some reason. I'm finally posting it here. There are a number of these that made me wince. Some even made me exclaim Oww! Oww! and that had nothing to do with my jaw.

How to Write Good.

1. Always avoid alliteration.
2. Avoid clichés like the plague - they're old hat.
3. ( Read more... )

Back on the 27th of December, I askedIf anyone knows how to go from the glyphs that altavista/babelfish or google uses to unicode number entries, I'd love to know.
Well, I found it. At http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm. For example, if one searches on 服, you'll get a selection of characters that it matches. In this case one ( Read more... )

• My bus today had an advertisement that said that it has WiFi on the bus. That's really nifty as well as really odd. It's similar to the first time that I saw a 5-pack of writable DVDs in the checkout line at Fred Meyer's.
• I've noticed that at this time of the year, I read more mass-sized paperbacks than other times of the year. I've traced this ( Read more... )

Oh, and if you happen to know "Did you remember to dress?" or "Did you remember to clothe? (yourself)" in other languages than dutch, french, german, italian, portuguese, or spanish, that would be good too. I figure that a few different people speak gaelic (scots or other stripe), swedish, or esperanto. I'll be looking up the lojban tonight ( Read more... )

So, a long while back, cindygerb and I had this idea to put a sign by the door that said "Did you remember to dress?" in as many languages as possible. Somehow this got a bit derailed. I'm not sure why but that doesn't keep me from reviving it now ( Read more... )