January 2012
3 posts
Prounounce this and you have mastered English
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud.
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I...
So I noticed Publix put little shades over...
And maybe this is just my upbringing in the liberal northeast but this just doesn’t sit right with me. It’s not like they were showing any more skin than one would see at the beach, perhaps even less in this case. Or even less skin than you could show on TV which I presume would be more harmful. My major complaint, however, is that these little plastic shades, which were very clearly...
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
The 88 Truths of Life
1. You can’t change other people, and it’s rude to try.
2. It is a hundred times more difficult to burn calories than to refrain from consuming them in the first place.
3. If you’re talking to someone you don’t know well, you may be talking to someone who knows way more about whatever you’re talking about than you do.
4. The cheapest and most expensive models are usually both bad deals.
5....
March 2011
10 posts
August 2010
6 posts
July 2010
10 posts
Avatar and the Veyron
So I finally got around to watching Avatar, the movie about blue furry people not the airbender, and I had a few thoughts about it. It’s worth mentioning that I watched it on a rented DVD on a 27” non-HD TV. This important because it really brought out some of the movies flaws.
Let’s back up a bit, Avatar, if I understand correctly, was meant to be a technological masterpiece,...
So it should be said that I read a lot of japanese/korean/whatever comics or manga as they are more commonly known as. This was a relatively easy thing to do because most manga are not translated and released in English in a timely manner or at all. So more often than not, the fan translations are out within a few days of the original release and they are of astonishingly good quality for work...
Magnets, how do they work?
When the great meteor collided with Earth, dragons and dinosaurs fought to defend their planet. The dragons used all their power to slow down the meteor but they failed. Then, the dinosaurs shielded the mammals from complete extermination. For their bravery, dragons turned into stars. The souls of the dinosaurs collected into rocks, forming magnets.
Magnets are powered by COURAGE
June 2010
18 posts
