December 2010
45 posts
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Vodka means “little water” in russian, because water is “voda” (vah-DAH), and diminutives are formed with a -ka suffix (e.g. kot/koshka; cat/kitty). How cute. I learned this from Around the World with 80 Words (Charles Berlitz).
“Professors, these writers argued, are obsessed with producing highly specialized...”
– Driven by the search for “novel approaches” to dark corners of their field that no one beside a few thousand people in the world understand.
D&D Q&A
Q: One of my players wants to have a baby; what should I do?
A: Your question had me momentarily confused. If one of your players wanted to have a baby, you, the Dungeon Master, should be the last person she should talk to.
The whole article is really worth reading, “11 Strangest Questions From The D&D ‘Sage Advice’ Column.”
“Worried that New York City is not spawning enough technology-based start-up...”
– I bet Berkeley is going to step in. They already have an MBA partnership with Columbia.
God damn it, I want to build a sailboat.
“I see you are in Tucson. If you want I can go over to your friend’s house...”
“The study reveals that short-term [voluntourism] projects can do more harm than...”
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“The first outside invasion of Big Brother occurred when someone tossed several...”
– Media Jammers and season 1 of Big Brother US (2000). Further incursions included planes carrying banners flying over the house with messages to the houseguests, and a woman with a megaphone outside the studio spoiling manipulative plans by the producers. Actions nearly culminated in a walkout by...
god damn it
I never get half the amount of stuff done that I want to get done.
“That’s why the Facebook newsfeed is no longer shown chronologically. Refresh...”
– I want to quote this entire article.
Dubmood
“Gate Rape - The TSA airport screening procedure: My sister got gate raped at...”
Tumblr Staff: Downtime →
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Yesterday afternoon, during planned maintenance that was not intended to interrupt service, an issue arose that took down a critical database cluster. This brought down our entire network while our engineers worked feverishly to restore these databases and bring your blogs back online …
There was a great disturbance in the tumbleverse, as if millions of voices were suddenly...
“In 2005, my team shattered the myths about India and China graduating 12 times...”
“Hi students, We received a call today from a SIPA alumnus who is working at the...”
– Columbia Office of Career Services
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“Men are estranged from one another as each secretly tries to make an instrument...”
– C.W. Mills, White Collar: The American Middle Classes
“If anyone could sway Amazon, it was Macmillan, a huge bookmaker with imprints...”
“I wouldn’t say a single word to them. I would listen to what they have to...”
– Marilyn Manson, on what he would have said to the Columbine shooters.
“[Mathematician Grigori Perelman] is said to have been interested in the past in...”
– crosses fingers
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HELLO ANYONE OUT THERE
[insert time-warner bitching]
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