Random shit. Now and then... language related topics.

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Today's game is:

Find the secret service agents:


(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Try it here. too.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Young ears

Train Horns

Created by Train Horns

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

And proud of it

Your morality is 0% in line with that of the bible.
 

Damn you heathen! Your book learnin' has done warped your mind. You shall not be invited next time I sacrifice a goat.

Do You Have Biblical Morals?
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Monday, February 23, 2009

What I am going to do in my new job

What it will be more precisely, I stll don't have any clue, but I'm up to it!

Organizar, dirigir e executar atividades referentes à formulação e execução de políticas institucionais de gestão da educação, gestão de programas, gestão da avaliação de cursos e programas; planejamento financeiro, elaboração e execução orçamentária, controle da situação financeira e patrimonial; controle contábil financeiro, liberação de recursos, análise e aprovação de prestações de contas; gestão de pessoas, de materiais, de recursos informatizados, do processo produtivo; organização e realização de licitações; realização de pesquisas de mercado, apoio no desenvolvimento mercadológico de novos programas, divulgação e promoção dos programas e atividades da CAPES, comunicação interna e externa; e executar as demais atividades definidas em normas da CAPES.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Who's gonna bake the bread?




That's one big ass sausage!
Edit: That didn't come out right... or "That's what she said"

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Toddlers' Gesturing Linked To Later Vocabulary And School Readiness

Toddlers' Gesturing Linked To Later Vocabulary And School Readiness

ScienceDaily (Feb. 12, 2009) — Children who convey more meanings with gestures at age 14 months have much larger vocabularies at 54 months than children who convey fewer meanings and are accordingly better prepared for school, according to research at the University of Chicago published in the journal Science on Friday, Feb. 13.

Check your ears or sound system

Great site: www.audiocheck.net.

Green injustice

Fined for illegal clearing, family now feel vindicated

Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie

After suffering court action that cost the family $100,000, Liam Sheahan believes clearing his home and his family.

After suffering court action that cost the family $100,000, Liam Sheahan believes clearing trees saved his home and his family. Photo: Paul Rovere

They were labelled law breakers, fined $50,000 and left emotionally and financially drained.

But seven years after the Sheahans bulldozed trees to make a fire break — an act that got them dragged before a magistrate and penalised — they feel vindicated. Their house is one of the few in Reedy Creek, Victoria, still standing.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Monday, February 9, 2009

Poor CEOs...

Warning: Read at your own risk. Side effects include rage fits, shock, vomiting and permanent lack of hope for mankind.

You Try to Live on 500K in This Town

By ALLEN SALKIN

Published: February 6, 2009
PRIVATE school: $32,000 a year per student.
Mortgage: $96,000 a year.
Co-op maintenance fee: $96,000 a year.
Nanny: $45,000 a year.
We are already at $269,000, and we haven’t even gotten to taxes yet.

Five hundred thousand dollars — the amount President Obama wants to set as the top pay for banking executives whose firms accept government bailout money — seems like a lot, and it is a lot. To many people in many places, it is a princely sum to live on. But in the neighborhoods of New York City and its suburban enclaves where successful bankers live, half a million a year can go very fast.
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Saturday, February 7, 2009

Noncompositionality


by Cyanide & Happiness

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Would you dare?

Great list from Hugh MacLeod, at gapingvoid.com:


-Getting people to pay $4 for a cup of coffee started off as an act of futility.
-Getting people to give up their horses en masse in exchange for an internal combustion engine started off as an act of futility.
-Getting people to pay for software without any hardware attached to it started off as an act of futility.
-Building a multi-million dollar cottage industry using nothing but blog advertising started off as an act of futility.
-Writing a children's book about wizards in an Edinburgh coffee shop started off as an act of futility.
-Trying to halt the Nazi invasion using nothing but Spitfires started off as an act of futility.
-Stopping the largest army the world had ever seen with just a small phalanx of 300 Spartans started off as an act of futility.
-Trying to blow up the Death Star using nothing but thirty X-Wing fighters started off as an act of futility.
-Convincing the USA to elect an African-American as their President started off as an act of futility.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking...?