I promised _feckless a funny link yesterday and have now found it, so I'm going to share it with everyone. Blogger goes to restaurant in China, blogger boggles at gloriously incoherent English version of the menu and purchases a copy, blogger shares the magic with the world. In addition to the moments of "Okay, I can sort of see, maybe, what that was ( Read more... )

Oh, Nintendo. You so crazy. Don't ever change.

I finished whipping up my dorky decimal-to-hexademical color converter in my PHP class last night (I think the rest of the class was reviewing functions), and I am pleased by my attempt at validation codes and by my clever cross-application of what I learned about regular expressions in my Linux class. The result is inaesthetic and does nothing for ( Read more... )

This one got through the filter somehow, and I can honestly say my inbox was a bit richer for its presence:

bad music letters latter fly thats, carefully off promised reference, a pride mentioned ( Read more... )

I saw the new The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe movie this week with my family, and I quite enjoyed it, although there were a few parts where I could hear the echoes of the little voice in the director's head that wanted to make everything more like The Lords of the Rings. Anyway, our viewing lead to the following geekery with my brother on the ( Read more... )

Well, me hearties, I remained in pirate character for twelve hours yesterday. From 7:00am to 7:00pm, every word I spoke or typed had the distinctive flavor of buccaneering. In addition to driving my mother and her co-workers mad and disturbing the nice people at the local Subway, I gave myself a fine sore throat and a lasting tendency to type "me" ( Read more... )

Yarrr, Newegg finally be billin' me Discover card. I be gettin' me parts fer me new computer ship soon. Yo ho!

...Arr, pirates must be gettin' sore throats all th' time, yargh. Thar be th' reason most pirates be taciturn. Arrrrr.

Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day, me mateys! Be ye talkin' like pirates yet? Arrrrrr.

I be sittin' at work wi' me mother and drivin' her mad. Yo ho ho! Whar's me grog?

• Helped my little brother move into his new dorm at Mercer. It's a great little suite, and I like his roommates, so he should be having a pretty good time right now.
  
• Gotten sun-burned rather badly in the execution of the above, as we made a three-hour drive in a convertible during the hottest part of the day. I'm so glad there's an Aloe vera plant ( Read more... )

"Glided" never sounds correct to me. I propose that it be replaced by the more melodious "glode," with "glidden" as the past participle. Try making some sample sentences and see if you don't agree.

Someday I will begin to treat every English verb as excitingly irregular, and conversing with me will become an event. Until then, I'm going to sit ( Read more... )