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-Bob, Lost in Translation (2003)
unintentional pun theater
Jan. 25th, 2010 10:46 amJust now in the office, I accidentally committed this offense: "Kona島コーヒーの味は優しいすぎるです、ね。でもコナコーヒーは大体こんなモンです。"
Christ, it's too early on a Monday for this level of pun-ishment, even if I'm the one doing it.
Christ, it's too early on a Monday for this level of pun-ishment, even if I'm the one doing it.
Signs of the Infopocalypse
Oct. 29th, 2009 01:08 pmThere is a wiki entry for the "metal umlaut" -- and it has useful information in it.
Metal umlaut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Metal umlaut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The English word diaeresis, coming from a Greek word meaning "to divide or distinguish", refers to a diacritic graphically similar to the umlaut. This diacritic is used in languages such as Greek, French, Spanish (where it indicates a non-diphthong and thus, a real diaereisis), Dutch, and Brazilian Portuguese with varying purposes; in English and some other languages the diaeresis may be employed to indicate that two vowels are to be pronounced separately, as in the names "Chloë", "Zoë", or the word "naïve". Although spellings such as reënact and coöperate have largely fallen into disuse, this use of the diaeresis mark, or trema, is still used in some English-language publications.This could also be used for Japanese people's names where they have paired vowels. Pretty neat.
Perapera-kun: Japanese Popup Translator :: Add-ons for Thunderbird: Wow. If any of you have a need for on-demand Japanese readings, and are using Thunderbird for your mail client -- this is very helpful.
The doctor's office has comics available to read while waiting for one's appointment. They have Inoue's VAGABOND - the story of Miyamoto Musashi, a legendary badass samurai. I picked up the first comic on my own maybe three or four years ago, and could only read about 30% of it. I was happy to find that anymore I can read about 90% of it, and the main areas that trip me up are the bits where people are using keigo, courtly, archaic, or very regional dialects.
Killer headache this morning. Thankfully I have GIGANTIC painkillers from teh USAs, which mostly blanketed the problem. Man, I get weather-pressure headaches quickly. I'm actually a little worried that I'm catching a cold, since I can't stop clearing my throat, and swallowing stuff is scratchy. Swallowing toast is actually painful.
Apparently Darth Vader and Yoda will be playable characters in Soul Calibur IV, but foolishly Darth Vader is exclusive to the PS3 version, and Yoda is exclusively on the 360. Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot, why take characters from the same universe and put them in different SKUs? The division of Soul Calibur III's "Zelda's Link is on GameCube" at least made some sense.
Energy drink is destroying my self restraint.
Word of the day:
I said, "So it's like 'rakugaki' then?"
"Yeah, yeah - exactly."
"Oh, OK. Then can you have kajourakugaki, an organized list of grafitti, like where the bosouzoku list their names in a nice orderly fashion?"
He looked at me like I was crazy. This is just the way my head works. At least when a fully-charged energy drink is involved. YAY! TAURIN!
Apparently Darth Vader and Yoda will be playable characters in Soul Calibur IV, but foolishly Darth Vader is exclusive to the PS3 version, and Yoda is exclusively on the 360. Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot, why take characters from the same universe and put them in different SKUs? The division of Soul Calibur III's "Zelda's Link is on GameCube" at least made some sense.
Energy drink is destroying my self restraint.
Word of the day:
箇条書 / かじょうがき : n 1）itemized form 2）itemizationI asked Morino why it's pronounced "kajougaki" instead of "kajousho" since it's the same kanji as used in 企画書; he explained that "-sho" is a document while "-gaki" is a style of writing.
I said, "So it's like 'rakugaki' then?"
"Yeah, yeah - exactly."
"Oh, OK. Then can you have kajourakugaki, an organized list of grafitti, like where the bosouzoku list their names in a nice orderly fashion?"
He looked at me like I was crazy. This is just the way my head works. At least when a fully-charged energy drink is involved. YAY! TAURIN!
autotranslation
Nov. 30th, 2007 03:07 pmEvery time I get stumped and resort to Altavista's Babelfish or Google Translate to translate Japanese to English, I feel like a complete genius for understanding what little I do of this language. The stuff that comes out of the automatic translators is like Burroughsian cut-up poetry.
WHY DOES MICROSOFT WORD SUCK SO MUCH?
Jul. 20th, 2007 07:11 pm- "Save As..." and then selecting a filename that exists already; every other application in the world, even other apps in the Office suite, and the OS itself just says, "That name exists. Overwrite?" but in MS Word, it pops up an additional dialog with three choices, which is one more than the asshole in "The Lady, or the Tiger?" had to contend with. Basically it wants to know "No, really, how about a different name" or "No, no - really overwrite" and "OK, how about I fold the differences between the two documents into that older document, and let you keep working on the mutant, hellacious, and probably corrupted offspring?" And in my case, it's in Japanese with several kanji I can't read, and thanks to Microsoft, I can't highlight and copy the dialog box text to check it out via a translation software. But choice is good, right? NO, IT ISN'T.
- Highlight some text, and then start typing - again, anywhere else, in any major OS and in any application, the highlighted text will be replaced with whatever you type next. Not in MS Word. Oh, sure: USUALLY it works that way, but sometimes it decides to just take the left of the selection as the cursor point, insert the new text, and keep the old text there, just off to the right. Meaning it has to be re-selected, then deleted. What the hell causes this, and why isn't it consistent?
- And don't get me started on its List function. Especially Numbered Lists. Eww.
meme du jour
May. 30th, 2007 12:06 pmConstructive Mayhem - "The rules of this game: Comment (in this case ask here) and I pick three of your interests and three of your user icons, and ask you to talk about them.":
LJ icons:
When I first joined LJ I just did it to read friends' journals. I was convinced that there was nothing but abject misery, whining, and drama going on here. Choosing Derek Zoolander as a theme for my LJ icons was meant to be self-mocking. I trot out Magnum whenever I say something that is lewd, biting, or hoped-to-be-perceived as insightful. Furious, from the movie Mystery Men, is for when I'm spazzing out about a topic, or making fun of myself for getting worked up over nothing.
"Well, this is fun. I have no idea what some fo the things in your interests list are.Interests:
Interests: Improper dancing, swarf, and whatever that two character one is last in your list.
images: default, magnum, furious"
- Improper Dancing is very similar to Geek Dancing. It's the kind of largely arrhythmic and unselfconscious dancing that simultaneously attracts small children, like a somatic version of the Pied Piper, and repulses potential lovers. So if you're interested in going home alone, this is the kind of dancing for you. Though it is the only kind of dancing I have ever performed, it has only come to public attention in recent years through Elaine's dancing on Seinfeld (YouTube), as well as the venerable web classic How to Dance Properly by ZeFrank.
- Swarf is a luscious vocal/electronic band from the UK. I suspect their name comes from the industrial jargon, which are shavings and leftover bits from metalworking. I learned of them through Warren Ellis' site, and have kept up with their stuff through LJ, where their lead singer keeps her blog, and
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in_the_lathe, where Swarf posts band news. They offered their music for online purchase through the now-defunct mp3ria without DRM; if you're interested in hearing them, there are clips and free live tracks at their site and full songs can be heard through their MySpace player. But no one in their right mind recommends a visit to MySpace. (shudder) - The two-character entry at the end of my list is "Nihon" (or the older pronunciation "Nippon") which means "Japan." The pronunciation of those characters in Chinese, "Jipang" provides the international pronuciation of my host country's name.
LJ icons:
When I first joined LJ I just did it to read friends' journals. I was convinced that there was nothing but abject misery, whining, and drama going on here. Choosing Derek Zoolander as a theme for my LJ icons was meant to be self-mocking. I trot out Magnum whenever I say something that is lewd, biting, or hoped-to-be-perceived as insightful. Furious, from the movie Mystery Men, is for when I'm spazzing out about a topic, or making fun of myself for getting worked up over nothing.
opening lines of heike monogatari
Dec. 22nd, 2006 02:09 pm祇園精舍の鐘の声、諸行無常の響あり。娑羅双樹の花の色、盛者必衰のことはりをあらはす。おごれる人も久しからず。唯春の夜の夢のごとし。たけき者も遂にはほろびぬ、偏に風の前の塵に同じ
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Jan. 18th, 2006 11:02 pmMicrosoft Word 2003 (Office Suite) understands the spelling of "anime" but not "manga." Go figure.
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