Instead of boring old October 4th, can we designate today as one of the following?
- Talk Like a Trucker Day
- CB Radio Day
- Good Buddy Day
- Bandit Day
- Burt Reynolds Day
- C.W. McCall Day
- Convoy Day
Because that would tickle my sensibilities a bit.
Author: Nick
Acceptance
Every so often I think to myself, “I can live with the idea of linguistic descriptivism. It’s so democratic. The rules of language are so obviously fluid.” Then I read a random sampling of Facebook posts and the visceral reaction pretty much shoots that notion dead.
Prescriptivist 4 Life, yo!
Yes, that is the face of hypocrisy staring back at you.
Avertissement!
Greetings random American “barrista”! For your information there is, in fact, a difference between a cappuccino and a latte. You have been warned. Have a nice day.
Symbolix
Welcome to the 1970’s [1], Microsoft.
On the other hand, better late than never. This very much resolves an issue in a less kludgey way.
[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194.aspx
Biscuit explosion
Come home to find the treat box had an accident. No one seems to know anything about it. We’ve put our best detectives on the case.
Obligatory
[Opinion on government shutdown]
Special powers
I think the special power I’d most like to have is to stop time in the sense that the world around me freezes. It’s difficult to attend to the mundane when the overarching compels attention and right now I’ve got banalities like Wisconsin has cheddar.
Steampunk WWW
Overheard in re: a Metafilter conversation [1] about the original cross platform web browser; a line-mode application which is essentially a TTY [2] interface.
Imagine that… a typewriter that types by itself like some kind of terrible player piano. You read what it’s writing while it chatters away. And then once in a while it stops and you press a key that tells it what to type next. There’s fanfold of dead trees a thousand feet long under the desk, slowly being transferred into the trash bin behind it. And that’s you browsing the web.
Downright depressing, that.
[1] http://www.metafilter.com/132359/There-is-to-top-to-the-World-Wide-Web#5210791
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal
International radio
Because I lack a good bookmarking system, here’s a few Internet broadcasts I want to remember. Perhaps you will as well.
- FIP [1]
- Planet Nova [2]
- AskMefi Question on international radio [3]
- AskMefi question on eclectic radio [4]
[1] http://www.fipradio.fr/
[2] http://www.novaplanet.com/
[3] http://ask.metafilter.com/225547/NonUS-radio-please
[4] http://ask.metafilter.com/248260/Eclectic-music-Radio-recommendations-please
Bucket list
Another thing for the bucket list:
- Start a polka band named Rage Against the Indignities. Think Weird Al Yankovic meets Brave Combo mocking the latest manufactured outrage du jour.