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mammals with tentacles

emma — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:44:35 +0000

LEARN
Did you guys know that tentacles come on not only sea creatures, but also plants and mammals?? Please meet the star-nosed mole:

LISTEN
Yazoo – Midnight
[See post to listen to audio]

SEE
Get ready for July, y’all:

x is not x unless it P

emma — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:42:22 +0000

bart simpson and principle b obviation

emma — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:15:12 +0000

in last sunday’s episode of the simpsons, sideshow bob hatches a face/off-inspired plan to bust out of jail and kill bart. in doing so, a principle b obviation context is created, lending to bart’s exclamation in the clip below: “see, bob! even YOU hate to see you!”

they call it cheese

emma — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:24:13 +0000

i love “found in the wild” linguistic examples:

They call it cheese. Sounds harmless enough, but this powder popping up at schools around Dallas isn’t parmesan. It’s Mexican black tar heroin mixed with Tylenol PM. It’s killing kids at an alarming rate. RATHER It’s a marketing approach. Look at the power. It looks funny. It’s a funny name and it’s $1 or $2 bucks. Try it how harmful could that be? RATHER Very harmful. In less than two years, at least 24 Texas children have died from snorting it.

a series of music videos

emma — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:36:35 +0000

this hot chip video

this cure video
this everclear video
this jamiroquai video
this justin timberlake video

also,
this kylie minoque video

ps, this hot chip video

i was going to also recommend the alternat version of the cure’s close to me but it seems to be unavailable in any capacity on youtube. wah.

food, APIs

emma — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:57:51 +0000

(1) in the case of affordable takeaway lunch options, it appears to be the case that the yumminess of food is directly proportional to the stomach achey-ness of food.
(2) i have a really good idea for yelp but their api is more or less useless. yelp, if you’re out there reading this blog, holler at me. then again, yelp, i’m also kinda mad at you, so whatever.
(3) on that note, can i mention also that i’m slightly disappointed that the google maps api doesn’t really seem to let you play around with the public transit functionality?
(4) if you’re wondering, there are machines that will make your octopus tender:

pullum v. strunk and white

emma — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:52:17 +0000

Geoff Pullum is giving a public lecture on Strunk & White’s “Elements of Style” next Tuesday. From the looks of his blog post, this is going to be a pretty fun talk.

I’ve simply had it with all the people who keep telling me that they revere The Elements of Style because it’s such a nice little book and helped them so much with their writing when they were college that they carry it everywhere they go and give it to all their students or hand a copy to each new employee that they hire for their company yadda yadda yadda… I have decided that my campaign against Strunk and White’s toxic little compendium of unfollowable dumb advice, bungled grammar claims, and outright mendacity must be taken directly to America’s colleges, starting with the great universities of the East Coast. For the opening event I have chosen Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. I will speak on the Brown campus at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday night next week, April 13, in the Metcalf Chemistry Building Auditorium at 190-194 Thayer Street. Admission is free, and Language Log readers get a 30% discount off that. Be there.

de re anecdote

emma — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:55:20 +0000

over thanksgiving, we ended up housing several of our friends’ cars in our driveway. my roommate paul shuttled a couple of our friends to the airport and then drove their cars to our place to park. later during weekend, paul and i were going to the grocery store in one of the borrowed cars. paul was having kind of a hard time pulling out of the driveway because the cars were so closely parked together.

“bah!” he exclaimed, “whoever parked so closely is an asshole!”

a moment later, paul realized that he was the one who had parked all the cars in the driveway.

“bah! i’mевтини мебели the asshole!”

heh.

sort by date fail

emma — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:28:18 +0000

the printer at work breaks sometimes and when it does i get frustrated and go home. i have a pretty badass laserjet printer at home that i like to brag about sometimes, so you might wonder why i ever fucking bother using the printer at work. one reason is that i’d rather not waste my toner because those cartridges are a pain to replace (if you’re extremely lazy like me). another reason is that i am extremely lazy and my printer is on a desk separate from the desk where i usually put my computer. on that desk, the computer usually gets plugged in and out to a bunch of stuff, so i have to, like, un- and replug things if i’m moving over to the other desk to print something. and like i say, i’m really lazy.

anyway, so my last print job at work failed and i wanted to see if it had freakishly completed while i wasn’t paying attention so i opened up print queue to see and tried to sort by date. except when you sort by date, you get this:

it’s a pretty amazing date sorting algorithm fail, and i’d like to thank whatever apple intern was responsible for that. you’ve made my morning.

wherevs u go

emma — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:30:21 +0000