GIGO: words unreadable aloud

Tuesday 11 March 2008

Overheard at Bruno's

Mom: What are you giving up for Lent?

Earnest five-year-old girl: Pink.
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Tuesday 18 December 2007

PXSL, Scala Android, Giant Rat of Sumatra

Cool stuff this week:

Tom Moertel's PXSL, a Parsimonious XML Shorthand Language, which I'd love to look more deeply into, later. I think I posted something on Pyscerocha about the various XML shorthands, or alternate syntaxes, that people have come up with to ease the pain of using XML directly.
Scala Android — my first thought upon hearing of Android was how long before I could play with it in Scala?
Silliness: The Firesign Theatre had a 1974 album called "The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra". This week, it appears that the animal has been discovered. Well it was on New Guinea, actually, but who can tell the difference from here?

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Saturday 1 December 2007

Another entry for week 508

Paradogxical — when your two canine pets are sitting outside in the freezing cold, staring at the fire in your fireplace.

See this entry, and maybe this one.
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Thursday 5 July 2007

Linguistic Mayonnaise

Quote of the day, from a post on how Google Earth works:

For the more technically inclined, you may want to read these patents directly. Be warned: lawyers and technologists sometimes emulsify to form a sort of linguistic mayonnaise, a soul-deadening substance known as Patent English, or Painglish for short.

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Tuesday 29 May 2007

Idle question

Do Lambda Calculus weenies call Java programmers "weak-head normals"?
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Sunday 29 April 2007

25 mph == Tai Chi driving

I used to consider 25 mph a punitive speed limit -- the majority of us are being punished by requiring us to drive so slowly, due to a few idiots. But last week, after my mother mentioned taking a Tai Chi class, I decided to consider having to go as slow as 25 to be a form of Tai Chi driving.

It changes one's whole attitude ...

Apparently, others have come up with similar thoughts. See here and here. From the latter link:

Today I imagined how a Tai Chi driving lesson might go...
"In the beginning there is stillness. From stillness comes movement, forwards, back, left and right, this is driving - you must understand this."

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Saturday 7 April 2007

Buddhist colony -- shed your ego

Deb was saying something about a buddhist community, and called it a "Buddhist Colony". So I said that I thought that was a place where most of the residents would take off all of their egos.
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