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Why Cantonese songs are fun to listen to
So, last summer, I decided that since I wanted to learn Chinese a little better, I would seek out Chinese popular music that appealed to me. I went onto last.fm and started listening to tags like "chinese", "cpop", etc. At first, I figured I would restrict my focus to songs in Mandarin, since that is the language I took for two semesters in ( Read more... ) -
Ear-glancing?
Is it possible to glance at something with your sense of hearing? If so, is there a concise word for it in English? Or any other language? I feel like there must be something akin to the concept, but I'm hitting a mental block right now. -
Oh nowes!
So, um. I thought a bug had klandwed on my wear, and I rweachwed up suddewnkly to gwet it, and spiklklewd a gklass of weatwer on my klweyboard. Nowe it's rewgistwering swevwerakl of thwe klweys in pairs, and it's reaklkly irritating. Hopwefuklkly this stops wehwen thwe weatwer driwes.
Fascinating. -
100 Truths
omg memes
1. Last beverage → Still drinking a Cherry Coke from the movie theater
2. Last phone call → Kristen, seeing if we're still on to see the WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME
3. Last text message → to Angela: "OH MY GOD WORST MOVIE EVER I WANT A STIFF DRINK NOW"
4. Last song you listened to → Ending theme to Code Geass coming out of the other room5. ( Read more... ) -
Genetic Algorithms
So, this is kind of out of the blue, but genetic algorithms are kind of neat. It's basically a way to coax controlled randomness into coming up with solutions to definable problems. So, you start out with a problem, and you allow a computer to generate a large number of potential solutions whose variables or behavior are more or less randomly ( Read more... ) -
頭が爆発
F**king 18 mph headwinds on the way home on my first day riding the new bike.
*Dies* -
New bike
About 6 months after my last one was stolen, I finally got a new bike today. This time, it's green! Dun dun dun. It cost about half as much as the last one, and should hopefully still get the job done. Oh, and I got a better lock this time.
Can't bike to work tomorrow, though -- thunderheads! -
Google Maps Boredness
So, I was looking stuff up on Google Maps earlier today, and I accidentally entered a single letter and still got results... Knowing from previous experience that the results vary by the area that you're zoomed in on, I decided to try zooming out to the point where the entire world was in view, and entered single letter searches to see what would ( Read more... ) -
The great state of Australia
So earlier today I was looking at a bunch of articles about global warming and climate change, and it mentioned how Australia (which is basically almost all desert now anyway) will continue to be very much a desert if climate change becomes law. Except for the north. For whatever reason ( Read more... ) -
Passionate Kisses?
I'm just trying to figure out why the eponymous refrain of the song "Passionate Kisses" was just stuck in my head. The only thing I can think of is that I picked up on something subconsciously while browsing profiles on OkCupid.