Co-worker: What is marginalia?
Tsaiko: ... what?
Co-worker: Marginalia. The client says that the map lacks appropriate marginalia.
Tsaiko: Oh. I think it means stuff in the margin. Like the title, legend, etc.
Co-worker: I am glad you are around. Because I had no idea what the client was talking about.
Tsaiko: Well you're doing better than me ( Read more... )

Note to self: in the STFU universe, you can graduate from STFU with egregia cum laude as that can be translated as "with outstanding praise" or as "with hysterical praise."

I still kind of wish I could graduate with hysterical praise.

EDIT: According to Wikipedia, in France you can graduate with the notation assez bien ("good enough"). I know ( Read more... )

Oh my god, I am reading this story and the author described this man's body as an "acre of hot manhood." He also has "brutally cut abs."

*dies*

Why am I reading this? WHY?

Vug is such a fun word to say ( Read more... )

You know you watch too much anime when you are sitting in the library, four people speaking Japanese are sitting next to you, and you can understand some of what they are saying. I don't know exactly what they are saying, but I recognize words and phrases and my mind is automatically assigning meanings to them ( Read more... )

After the complete fail of this morning, I just had something happen that sent me into hysterical giggles. While working on digitizing some imagery for a project that has recently risen from the dead, I'm also doing some research on invitation etiquette during the Victorian era for a story I'm thinking of writing ( Read more... )

I'm reading a paper that's talking about the impact green space may have on physical health and well-being. The authors are from the Netherlands, which leads to the occasional awkward sentence or number I have to reread (since people in Europe often switch commas and decimals in numbers, meaning 13.000 should be read 13,000). I had to laugh at this ( Read more... )