so i started this new blog. the idea is to even just quickly note a particularly interesting thing or two from my daily reading. i'm patting myself on the back since it's been in existence such a short time and i already have one totally masturbatory digression posted.http://blowsmymind.

Alana Post is one of the internet's foremost collectors of exotic and spectacular images of cats. She is also constantly IMing me for some reason. In conclusion, sign up for her listserv and join the fun today:

http://alanapost.net/content/cats


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Some choice quotes from an essay by David Moser entitled Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard"One could say that Chinese is phonetic in the same way that sex is aerobic: technically so, but in practical use not the most salient thing about it ( Read more... )

...plus one more that was entered just yesterday and accepted today: snausage party

My business partner Alana wrote the Urban Dictionary the word of the day for today, sad trombone. Congratulations, Alana!

ramen hangover- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ramen+hangover&defid=1054153Read more... )

I chose a new Chinese name today. I put some thought into it, and I'm happy with it now, so hopefully I'll grow attached to it and continue to use it.

The name is 黄皚亮 (Huang2 Ai2 Liang4), and now I'll take a minute to talk about each of those gigantic characters, hoping they actually display correctly.

When most non-Chinese are given Chinese ( Read more... )

My Chinese language professor told us that there's a Chinese expression, one she was convinced came from an English expression, that translates as "the carrot or the stick," the basic idea being that one can go about rewarding positive behaviors or punishing negative behaviors. We all started laughing. The only expression we could think of ( Read more... )

National Geographic is the magazine equivalent of a crazy date who, when you don't call back for another date after the first, keeps trying to get in touch with you.

I just got a letter from them that had printed in big bold letters on the envelope "DID WE DO SOMETHING WRONG?"

Guess what? You just did. Quit bothering me!

Killing me softly (with rimjobs), (covered by) The Poogees ( Read more... )

netrosexual

one who find sexual arousal in the power politics of communication via the internet, namely, through the messageboard medium

Nobody could understand why little Jimmy kept coming back to the board for more abuse, and eventual deletion, week after week. It finally made sense when we found out Jimmy was a netrosexual; his sole sexual ( Read more... )