March 2009
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Tumblr is now blocked at work in addition to Twitter… HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BLOG?
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Japanese ambiguity
Me: heh, it shows a lot that the word for "clean" in japanese is the same word for "beautiful"
Geoffrey: design ethic in a word
Geoffrey: thats awesome
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Panasonic Lumix GH1 on sale April 24th in Japan!
Panny FINALLY announced the GH1 for Japan, and I will be able to get my grubby hands on it on April 24th! …Well, HOPEFULLY. They are only making 5,000 units available in the first month.
No price mentioned in the official press release (Japanese only… I didn’t even bother reading it), but the special 60 units they are selling in advance (Japanese only, halfway down the page) to...
MacHeist bundle run-down
Buying the MacHeist bundle is getting harder and harder to justify with each new one. So here’s a quick rundown of each app in the bundle (with LINKS, because MacHeist somehow thought it was sufficient to display a screencast for each app instead of linking the developpers):
iSale - This would’ve been awesome two years ago, but personal selling on eBay is on its way out nowadays.
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I just wanted to say...
…that the new Wacom Intuos4 tablet has LED displays to remind you of what the programmable buttons do. That is rad and it suddenly plants it firmly on my WANT!! list.
And also: today was the last day of the school year here. Tears and cheers (okay, not so many cheers, since the new school year starts in two weeks).
"Texas School Board Set to Vote on Challenge to...
From the Wall Street Journal:
The Texas Board of Education will vote this week on a new science curriculum designed to challenge the guiding principle of evolution, a step that could influence what is taught in biology classes across the nation.
The proposed curriculum change would prompt teachers to raise doubts that all life on Earth is descended from common ancestry. Texas is such a huge...
TVsubtitles.net →
Pretty good collection of subtitle files for many popular TV shows (mostly American, from what I can tell). Good for the hearing impaired AND the ESL teacher who wants to show the kids something interesting with English pronunciation AND subtitles.
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Friday is Atheist Pride Day! (Friendly Atheist) →
Organizer Neil Moakley is urging atheist facebook users to change their profile pictures to the scarlet A (the adopted symbol of the atheist out movement… a pretty fug logo, in my opinion) and to update their status with something about atheism THIS FRIDAY, the 20th.
I’m debating whether or not to do this. My immediate reaction was “that’s not something I want to flaunt to...
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Thank you, Cracked.com →
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“Because a lack of sleep continues, I want to sleep snowly from tomorrow.”
– More awesome Engrish from students.
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“In the next fiscal year, I can’t choose OC.”
– Something a student wrote. Awesome. (OC stands for Oral Communication and is an English conversation class.)
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How to file taxes as an American JET in Japan
I don’t know myself, but I just found this very detailed guide.
Also, this chart on how much one would be taxed on cars (based on engine capacity).
I must be getting really bad at Googling, because I couldn’t Google them up and had to wander onto the ITIL forums.
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Box O' Octopus →
kaitlin:
Some crazy seven foot octopus at the New England Aquarium decided to squish himself into a 14 inch box to get food.
File under: Cool Things That Didn’t Happen When I Visited The New England Aquarium
Ditto. I saw them feed Myrtle the Turtle, but she didn’t have to squeeze herself into a 14 inch cube for it. Lame.
“i refuse to sacrifice fun-ness for tax benefits”
– kxj on marriage.
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Etch-A-Sketch →
Today’s xkcd is especially awesome.
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Hypothetical no more: If I were to create the...
For the archers radio series - the sound of a calf being born was created by dropping an object (forget now - probably a dead sheep or something) and a bucket of equal parts yoghurt and 1/4” tape (unwound off its spool) simultaneously onto a bed of hay.
The guide to sound effects, via Lifehacker.
Watch(via kxj)
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February 2009
69 posts
Graduation
The ceremony just ended. What an awesome bunch of kids… or should I say young men and women? 感動されました。