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Wednesday, 3 May 2006 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Hey! When did it get to be May, all suddenly? Surely there are rules about that sort of thing?
I am, sudden unauthorised departure of April notwithstanding, pleased to report the following:
I am, sudden unauthorised departure of April notwithstanding, pleased to report the following:
- Rain. Winter is apparently looming, in a way that makes me deeply happy. I had to dash to the library this morning in a light drizzle that wantonly became a downpour, as a result of which I look like a damp English sheepdog. (Although I hope I don't smell the same).
- Indecent triumph over the Powers of Darkness that reside on my computer. It is a relief to note that the random turning-itself-on trope wasn't, in fact, me sleepwalking or losing time to alien abduction of my hard-drive, but a mutant BIOS setting, which I have subsequently located and disabled all on my lonesome except for the power of Google. *flexes little, tiny geek muscle*. I'm also more or less caught up on all the missing programs and settings from the hard drive swop. Mutter.
- A couple of this batch of essays which have turned out to be astonishingly literate, which means I won't actually be forced to club to death both my classes in the interests of the human gene pool.
- Lost! It's cool! I like the way it's filmed, all fragmented, like. Although I'd be happier if the graphics card in this new hard drive didn't leave a regular grid of tiny, high-relief pimples all over the screen. That'll teach me to encourage evil bootlegs.
- Jo's game tonight, after many weeks of deprivation. I'm missing being monosyllabically obnoxious.
Stranded on a Remote Island
Date: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 01:00 pm (UTC)Re: Stranded on a Remote Island
Date: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 02:26 pm (UTC)Of course, I still watch. Sawyer keeps taking his shirt off.
scroob
Your google-fu is strong, but friends are even faster.
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Date: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 02:27 pm (UTC)scroob
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Date: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:50 pm (UTC);P
everymoment.
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Date: Thursday, 4 May 2006 07:57 am (UTC)Actually, it's incredibly good fun playing a nonverbal character; not only is she the mad loner type who doesn't hold with all this communication nonsense, but she's none too good at the language she's currently speaking. I am, however, developing l33t skillz in explaining to the DM at great, verbose length, with gestures and gin-soaked vocabulary, exactly how I'm constructing any given variety of intimidatory dirty look. My dignified silence, above, thus neatly demonstrates the somewhat meta process of playing silence in a highly linguistic fashion.
*punishes baiters by Xtreme Unsolicited RPG Dissection*
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Date: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 05:20 pm (UTC)A point of reason, yes- but one I'd never stopped to consider. "So July is...WINTER?" I flabbergasted.
Self, meet ethnocentrism.
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Date: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 05:57 pm (UTC)The situation is doubly weirded when little South African towns in the Hogsback region offer 'Christmas in July' package tours so you can enjoy your ham and christmas pud without it being FRICKING FORTY DEGREES CELSIUS outside.
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Date: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 06:35 pm (UTC)And there's another one- Fahrenheit vs. Celsius. I read "40 degrees" and think, "What? It's COLD there in July?" But no. Of course not. My head just doesn't translate quickly enough for that to make sense right away.
While we're at it, can the US please switch to metric? Measuring by twelfths just doesn't make sense. Not to mention the conversion needed. Why must we be so difficult? This is probably the real reason for jihad.
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Date: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 06:51 pm (UTC)I find it odd, though, that even metric countries fall back on the feet'n'inches standard for measuring human height. And then, of course, you get into D&D and all pretense of metric monogamy goes out the window.
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Date: Thursday, 4 May 2006 01:05 pm (UTC)I ask because I would say that the metric tendency has totally won out in such fields, while persisting in more sloppy everyday talk. For example: even in the imperial-measurement holdout that is the US, the armed forces have spoken in kilometers and millimeters since the 60s at least, because calculations need to be made. But in the wider society, where height-depiction needs only to be fairly visualizable to the common folk, the imperial standard seems to persist.
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Date: Thursday, 4 May 2006 01:49 pm (UTC)I actually find the inch a useful measure. It has more meaning in everyday life, sometimes, than the tiny cm.
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Date: Friday, 5 May 2006 01:52 pm (UTC)Yes but only on the *gasp in horror* Continent
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Date: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 11:07 pm (UTC)Lost
Date: Thursday, 4 May 2006 06:15 am (UTC)It's weird to think that someone who was credited as "good looking guy" in episode one of Angel is now more famous than David Boreanaz.
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Re: Lost
Date: Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:24 am (UTC)-KhoiBoi-
Lost lost
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