Cool Game for Attractive People
The title alone appeals to me. Flattery will get you everywhere.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
President Elect Obama
He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics.
And that's only the first on a list of "Fifty things you might not know about Barack Obama."
Comics vs. The Real World
The mayor of the city Batman, in the province of Batman, near the Batman river, in Turkey plans to sue Christopher Nolan for unauthorized use of the name "Batman."
Taken from Blog@Newsarama, where there are links to other articles about this mayor.
Taken from Blog@Newsarama, where there are links to other articles about this mayor.
Japanese sound effects translated
This is fun. For example, did you know that "supo = pop? Anyway, the sound of tight something being pulled off (or pulled out), such as Hiei's boot coming off his foot, or an arrow coming out of Hiei-chan's head. " Check out how many variations there are on evil Japanese laughter!
Burda Style
I love sites with user-created content. Add to that a crafting/sewing focus and you have a clear WIN in my book.
Damn, I need to get internet at home.
Damn, I need to get internet at home.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
eLouai's Doll Maker.
Okay, don't laugh at me:
I've been working from home today, remoting into the network, monitoring a restore and deleting 50,000 misplaced file (which is a hell of a lot harder than it ought to be.)
While on facebook from another computer, I was staring at Clint's profile picture, and decided to make my own.First, here's Clint's, deanimated by facebook.
Next is mine.
Finally, the link to the doll maker.
I guess you can laugh at me if you have to.
I've been working from home today, remoting into the network, monitoring a restore and deleting 50,000 misplaced file (which is a hell of a lot harder than it ought to be.)
While on facebook from another computer, I was staring at Clint's profile picture, and decided to make my own.First, here's Clint's, deanimated by facebook.
Next is mine.
Finally, the link to the doll maker.I guess you can laugh at me if you have to.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
weekend distractions
Once again, I find myself with both school work and school work on a Saturday (curse you StatExact!) So I present to you, weekend distractions.
First up, ChinaSMACK! Ever wonder if YouTube-type comments in Chinese are as stupid as they are in English? Answer: for the most part, no, but unsurprisingly, occasionally yes. It's also just an interesting site for the sake of seeing what's currently news in our slightly batty neighbor across the Pacific Ocean*.
A good place to start is the comments on, you guessed it, Barack Obama's acceptance speech. Some of the comments will make you want to cry, some will make you vomit with rage, and a goodly amount will make you make that Paul Rudd scrunchy-face.
Niubi, by the way, is literally translated as "Ox Vagina". The closest English phrase is not "awesome" so much as "highfalutin". Like that word, it can be either pejorative or complementary. You'll know when you need that if you read it.
Also, luckily for him, Obama's name transliterates nicely into Chinese as 奥巴马. That's pretty much nonsense (profoundly hopeful horse?). It's a terrible nuisance when you're name transliterates into something that sounds like a commonly used phrase. Bush's name in Chinese sounded like the phrase for "is not".
*If world politics was a laugh track sit-com, who would China be played by? What about other countries? The U.S. is Fred Willard, no second thoughts about that.
First up, ChinaSMACK! Ever wonder if YouTube-type comments in Chinese are as stupid as they are in English? Answer: for the most part, no, but unsurprisingly, occasionally yes. It's also just an interesting site for the sake of seeing what's currently news in our slightly batty neighbor across the Pacific Ocean*.
A good place to start is the comments on, you guessed it, Barack Obama's acceptance speech. Some of the comments will make you want to cry, some will make you vomit with rage, and a goodly amount will make you make that Paul Rudd scrunchy-face.
Niubi, by the way, is literally translated as "Ox Vagina". The closest English phrase is not "awesome" so much as "highfalutin". Like that word, it can be either pejorative or complementary. You'll know when you need that if you read it.
Also, luckily for him, Obama's name transliterates nicely into Chinese as 奥巴马. That's pretty much nonsense (profoundly hopeful horse?). It's a terrible nuisance when you're name transliterates into something that sounds like a commonly used phrase. Bush's name in Chinese sounded like the phrase for "is not".
*If world politics was a laugh track sit-com, who would China be played by? What about other countries? The U.S. is Fred Willard, no second thoughts about that.
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