12月 2009
19件の投稿
Exploring the extent of my ignorance
In this case, about vowels. I had had a conversation with Will sometime last week, I believe, about phonetics in general that focused more on consonants (which I was always better at). Through the course of it, I started thinking about my knowledge in the field, and I had commented that I only had a basic knowledge of it, because I had only ever studied phonetics at a basic level, and never went...
I watched The Karate Kid, Part II last night
It happened to be on, and I had just read the Japanese Wikipedia page on it a few weeks ago (you’re welcome), so I was curious to see it again with a new perspective. It had probably been since I was 10 or so that I last saw it, so there was the whole memory vs. reality conflict involved, and boy was it stark. I suppose I shouldn’t have expected too much of the fight scenes, but they...
再生するlacey:
patrickcassels:
A more rhetorically correct version of Alanis Morisette’s “Ironic.” We tried doing this with “You Oughta Know” and it didn’t work quite as well.
It’s just too bad this took so long to arrive. When did the original come out? 1995? I’m glad somebody did it, though.
http://mills.tumblr.com/post/297258459/when-a-femal... →
mills:
“…when a female cabbage butterfly lays her eggs on a brussels sprout plant and attaches her treasures to the leaves with tiny dabs of glue, the vigilant vegetable detects the presence of a simple additive in the glue, benzyl cyanide. Cued by the additive, the plant swiftly alters the chemistry of its leaf surface to beckon female parasitic wasps. Spying the anchored bounty, the female...
If this is any indication, I could live like a...
I recently came across this show on a Japanese website that got a good review, and after reading for a while I realized it was actually a Chinese show. I was pretty excited about that, because I have had some trouble finding Chinese shows period, much less good ones, via my favorite streaming website. A few times I thought I had come across one, but it turned out being either Japanese (which...
Old people and facebook
lacey:
I used to be reluctant to share my internet life with my elders, but have outgrown that a bit. If my mom or relatives added me on facebook, I added them back. I figure if there is something they don’t like on there, they can feel free to block me or whatevs. Facebook is purely for non-confrontational catching up with someone (a virtual peeping tom, if you will) and I’m okay with that.
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Reacquainting with an old friend (?)
I just did SRS reps for the first time in a long, loooooong time, and it feels kind of good. Maybe I’ll make it a habit again. It does get discouraging seeing 昆明就氣候而論是最適宜不過的 six times in one session, though. But on the bright side, I remembered it (mostly; had the tones of 適宜 in reverse order (it’s shìyí, not shíyì))!
I feel like going through 32 Japanese cards and then 32 Mandarin...
This just keeps getting better and better
#80 — Darnell Dinkins, TE. I didn’t even know this guy was on the roster, and he catches a touchdown pass in perhaps the biggest game in Saints’ franchise history. Seriously, when he caught that pass, I said “alright… #80!? Who is that guy? I haven’t seen that number all year!” It’s like they can just pick people off the street and get them in the...