I need two books for class next semester. At the school bookstore they come to a grand total of 187.60. In 5 minutes on Amazon.com I got both books, used, for 16 dollars. This includes shipping. My question is, how does this work? Are there streams of migrant children involved somewhere? White slavery? How can the price difference be so high?

how did people get so witty? this is a level on which my brain just does not operate.

chinese / english ambigrams.

http://www.cognitive-china.org/

perhaps for the tattoo seeker who feels awkward plastering a foreign language on his or her body.

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one of my chickens got a cold. but don't worry, through the wonders of the pharmaceutical industry, she got better. however, i've been letting her stay in the house so she doesn't have to go from 62 degrees to -20 degrees in one day. it's fun to have a chicken in the house! piss sack and i have taken to leaving her in the room where the other ( Read more... )

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Last year, I started listening to a lot of country music. Which, for all the anti-hype, is not really any better or worse than other standard top 40 radio schlock. The other intern on the farm in Connecticut would always set the barn radio for one of the 2 country stations. (You would not think that a suburb of Hartford CT would be a bastion of ( Read more... )

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in which my two favourite second languages and the creator of my favourite constant used in heisenberg's uncertainty principle combine in a wonderful way: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=881

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while enjoying an evening of internet in bed which i have for one day because my sister in law is a bizarre compulsive shopper, i took this opportunity to download weezer's new song (well ... it's new to me ...). i started listening to the good life and i was instantly transported back to 2002 and my apartment in oakland where is spent most of ( Read more... )