Oz's Ryan O'Reily is in the Sarah Connor Chronicles! The coolness of the show just went up by 300%.

When they time-jumped, wouldn't Sarah's stitches have disappeared?

Re: Zombies

I saw I Am Legend today. Good enough. Scarier than I had expected, possibly because being alone in the world was a particular childhood fantasy of mine, and it did not involve zombies (yes, yes, I know they were originally vampires, but those things were not vampires). I thought I knew exactly what I was going to see, as upon first ( Read more... )

Put your hands up if you can read the following paragraph:

Interlingua se ha distachate ab le movimento pro le disveloppamento e le introduction de un lingua universal pro tote le humanitate. Si o non on crede que un lingua pro tote le humanitate es possibile, si o non on crede que interlingua va devenir un tal lingua es totalmente indifferente ab ( Read more... )

I... love Eddie Izzard.

What gets me especially hot? European integration. Talk more EU, baby.

This article is horribly prejudiced. Phrases such as "grammatical error", "overuse of", and "even among the educated classes" have no place in an entry outlining the peculiarities of Indian English(es).

I used to do Indian English-to-Finnish translation for work, it's still one of my favourite dialects, and was in no small part responsible for my ( Read more... )

Some language humour:

A Tamil music video

The Finnish theme song to Duck Tales

The second one especially had me in stitches, as I often wonder how our language sounds to the ear of the outsider. Taco nazi, ahaha.

Happy 2K8 to everybody!

I've never had the habit of reviewing the past year, but it was alright. Good enough to be getting on with.

Even not following the news, word of the death of Benazir Bhutto found its way to me (via
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Happy  Christmas to those who celebrate. And an even happier Monday to those who don't!

I'm  seeing Marilyn Manson tonight. I'm not entirely sure why. What's he done since Mechanical Animals, anyway?