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Thursday, September 11, 2003

WELL, IT'S ABOUT TIME

Credit for finding this Flash version of a Speak & Spell simulator goes to Blacklinefish, whose friend I do not know.

And..

Holy Hell! Click "Watch Video." Man..what people in Montana will do for entertainment...This blog was so disturbed by the video, it had to watch the movie 4 more times.

-m




Tuesday, September 09, 2003

BLOGWORTHY RABBITS..

..would make a good band name.

I can't decide whether these things are really rabbits, Pokemon characters, or Popples. "Chu’s Donovan BC3DX Colored Senior Buck" is my favorite. If you took one of those babies for a walk around the town, people would just not damn mess with you.

Man, I'ma get me one of them..

-m





Monday, September 08, 2003

ALL THIS BLOG CAN THINK TO SAY IS..

Uhhhhhhh.

Of course, I have too much taste to link to this.

However, I may order this for my first day teaching GIS labs.

-m




ONE THING I'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE FRENCH (OR AT LEAST THOSE WHO INVENTED THE LANGUAGE)..

..is why they bothered to create new words for the numbers 1-16, but then got lazy and and used 10-7 (dix-sept), 10-8 (dix-huit), and 10-9 (dix-neuf) for 17, 18, and 19, respectively. Also, how comes they came up with new words for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60, but then 70 is just 60 + 10 (soixante-dix), 80 is just 4 x 20 (quatre-vingt), and 90 is (stupidest of all) 4 x 20 + 10 (quatre-vingt dix)?

I mean, if they had invested another 5 minutes during the number-naming portion of language creation, they could have saved french speakers that much time everytime they have to say the number '97' (quatre-vingt dix-sept?). Saying the number 9,593,289,192 would take about three weeks.

Are other languages dumb about this, as well, my spanish-speaking, gringo friends?

Man, the world will be way cooler when I'm in charge.

-m




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