Ranguage

I've been terribly negligent of my blog as of late. Rather than tending to it as a ewe would her lamb, I've been forsaking it for activities not involving a keyboard and monitor. After spending well over eight hours umbilically [that should be a word] attached to my office pc, I have little desire to continue to type words of any sort. I actually think all the emails I write have begun to take a toll on my verbal communication skills. I've noticed that my ability to form coherent sentences has been deteriorating; in fact, I'm having trouble with the individual words. Yesterday, I definitely heard several sounds exiting my mouth which you would be pressed to find in any dictionary (regardless of language). Perhaps they resembled English words and could be perceived as clever combinations of existing words, but I'm pretty sure that "strecruit" and "afform" are essentially meaningless in most colloquial conversations. I think that one of little men who work language center of my brain is on vacation, because dozen of such words enter into my stream of consciousness narrative. Although I have been largely able to filter out these words before they become entangled in my vocal chords, they merit some sort of mention. Sometimes when there is no word to describe something, you have to make one up. Hobbes decided that wet leaves smell "snippid", and Will Ferrell (playing James Lipton) was relegated to describe a performance as "scrumtrilescent". Now I'll have a database of words that, as of yet, have not been assigned meanings, such as felunctuous, gartolean, trabigular, and spranty.

Which brings us to the almost-nearly-closely related link o' the day, your reward for enduring the above. Prepare yourself for the hilarity that is Engrish (http://www.engrish.com). Some of the clothing is especially funny. As a native speaker, I can only butcher the English language to a limited degree, but the Japanese have perfected this art. At least the Japanese only print our words on t-shirts and such without knowing their meanings... only Americans are stupid enough to have Japanese characters permanently tattooed on their bodies without knowing a single word of Japanese beyond "domo arigato (mr. roboto)". More lock and loll... [5 points if you get the movie reference; no googling allowed]

Human Extinction and Me

We all know there's a lot a crazy, creepy people out there, and yet, somehow we continue to be shocked by some of the things they do. This leads me to the conclusion that people are getting crazier and creepier. Case in point: http://www.vhemt.org

A couple years ago, I bought a t-shirt from a vintage clothing shop that said "Thank you for not breeding". I thought it would be funny to give to someone as a gift, though I subsequently forgot all about it. Then I stumbled upon this site, and now I'm glad I never gave it to a friend, because I would never want to impose this idea on someone (even though it would have been completely unintentional.) I guess if you read through the website, they're not advocating genocide or anything (emphasis on voluntary), so they're not creepy in a Nazi way, but still... I mean there are at least 4 people who care enough about this to get the logo tattooed on their bodies. I'm all for a healthier planet, and while this is a viable solution, think of everything we would lose.

That said, I don't think I'd ever really want kids, but not for any of the reasons they give. Looks like the torch has been passed to my younger brother to carry on the family name, because my older brother certainly ain't gonna knock anyone up. Umm, don't tell my parents about this. My mom would flip out seeing as I've forsaken everything she's given me... well not everything, but some things that are very important to her [her religion and her family name]. Rather than hyphenate my last name (which would have made it unbearably long), my parents used my mother's maiden name as my second middle name. Although it's on my birth certificate, I never use it; and this makes her sad. I've think I've already touched on how I've forsaken my religion in a previous post, but I don't really want to delve any further into that for fear of opening up a big-ass can of worms. I have my reasons, and they are even written down on paper somewhere, but nobody is allowed to read it.

Those Ivy League Bastards

Interesting article about the history and practive of Ivy League admissions. This is definitely relevant to Williams, as I suspect they followed the Ivies in this respect.

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/051010crat_atlarge

Here's Johnny

I think this is hilarious and pretty well done: http://www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING%20FINAL.mov

NOTE: If you're not familiar with the movie version of Stephen King's "The Shining" , this won't seem funny at all, which is why it's so well done.

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