I promised kitara and dakus that I'd be getting with the program again by 8/2 because I want to document more about my trip to Japan that starts tomorrow than I have in the past... so, various administrivia taken care of, and this is my first test post from the LJ app. It's a little rudimentary, but it seems serviceable.

テスト、テスト、一、二、…三？

[edit: handles multiple ( Read more... )

Season's Greetings! to all and their families ( Read more... )

links of the morning, via N.F.

Autistic savant draws Rome from memory.
Japanese men running in synchronized slow motion.[1]
Donald in mathemagic land.[2]
Timelapse of fog rolling over San Francisco by Simon Christen.[3]
What would happen if you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider?1: "Wait" by Farida's Cafe ( Read more... )

I'm interested in building a Farnsworth Fusor, mostly for the neutrons
so you can set off alarms at SNO in the middle of the night? :-)
well, not until you suggested it

Incidentally, as much as I love my my new school, I learned a lot (although not necessarily in the classroom) at NCSU, and they deserve mad credit for doing great things... ( Read more... )

[16:03] kngpwr: morning
[16:03] gr3ck: in some young foolish countries, yes

(via avantardFolks, this is why you don't do impromptu culling of "bad" images from your digital camera while you're in the field... or after you get home! Sometimes it's impossible to realize the value of a photograph until decades later, and that means you have to let them pile up in the digital version of a shoebox until someone can come along later and ( Read more... )

[09:12am] greck: oh ok weird
[09:21am] greck: WEIRD!
[09:21am] greck: 写メる = to email an image or photo
[09:22am] greck: which is a portmanteau of 写真 and メール and turned into a VERB!
[09:22am] greck: that is bizarre

Japanese don't verb nouns; they noun most loan words.

HobbesWERK: i really wish there was a visual vlan tutorial HobbesWERK: because i have no idea what "no untagged" (notation untagged) means greck: does that... greck: enable tagging? greck: lol HobbesWERK: so far in these HPs HobbesWERK: i see HobbesWERK: tagged HobbesWERK: untagged HobbesWERK: no tagged HobbesWERK: no untagged HobbesWERK: lol ( Read more... )

wonko: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36CB4jOH2UA surlytmpl: hammer pants surlytmpl: sometimes he's adorable but sometimes he's ridiculously geeky wonko: y surlytmpl: this vid appears to be from the 80s iammud: no way, that shit was made last week greck: technically, since it's from india, it could be made *tomorrow* iammud: haha

greck: random facts of the day: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2054rank.html greck: lots of countries I'd consider civilized, progressive, etc. at the bottom, and a huuuggeeee clusterfuck up at the top jprentice: some of these places need to stop making babies and start making a country