My statistics professor is Russian, so before class yesterday I wrote С Рождеством! (Merry Christmas!) on the board ( Read more... )

In reference to Condoleeza Rice, filkertom rhetorically asked:
Jayzus, what is it with these people? Are they literally a different species?

Must... refrain... from commenting.

Well, now I'm even happier that I made that Google Books downloader.

[Edit] Hrm. Some of the scans of Google Books are fairly poor... but I've found a better source.

So now I have to modify my downloader to work with this other site, as well. Sigh.

I recently learned some interesting facts about Russian.

For one, мир ("Mir") means both "peace" and "world", which leads to the neat phrase МИРУ МИР: "Peace to the World".

Also, the word восток ("vah-stoke") is Russian for "east". A town on the east coast of Russia, Владивосток ("vlah-dee-vah-stoke") is a combination of that and the verb ( Read more... )

Well, it took me all of yesterday and several hours of today, but I created a program that will automatically download pages from GoogleBooks to my hard drive. Several hours spent to be able to download three hundred pages in a matter of moments. Well, okay, I only downloaded the 188 pages of The Negro at Home that I didn't download previously, ( Read more... )

My god. Google Books has the full text of The Negro at Home. It's not in a handy PDF format, but now that I've got a copy of Adobe Acrobat, I can download all the pages and make a PDF myself.

Sure, it'll be tedious doing that for nigh-300 pages, but I already did the same for 78 pages when I downloaded Subgenation. A few hours of time versus $ ( Read more... )

I have just posted this comic on my door.

Since I don't have tape, I had to cut adhesive strips from post-it notes, so I've no idea how long it might stay up there, even if someone doesn't rip it down.

[Edit] And at 6:55, less than two hours later, it's gone.

I officially love Google Books.

I was reading my current book, Jim Crow's Defense, over dinner, and found a citation that I absolutely had to look up. So just now I hopped onto Google Books to see if they had it, and got to download the entire book as a PDF--very handy, given the libraries close at 5 pm on Saturdays (which has irritated me any ( Read more... )

In math class this morning, someone was discussing a dream she had with another classmate. I wasn't paying much attention, but I noticed that she was talking about a helicopter, because she kept pronouncing it (or I kept hearing it as) 'holocopter'.

Which made me think of a neo-Nazi theme park ride: the Holocoaster.

I'm going to hell.*

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Some day, I will have to come to terms with the fact that I cannot read every racist book ever written.