misia posted a link to the International Dialects of English Archive.

Haven't had a lot of time to listen, but I did like the "Maine one" reading. Backwoods Maine, you bet.

We need to start calling the Congressmen's offices and ask them to stop "Vandalizing the Internet." Be quick, frank, and give your name/address. Tell them "I'm blogging this!"

Work has decided to be very busy, but no one is coming in today, train was empty. More later.

Violence against civilian targets in order to defend Islam can be justified... Sometimes/Rarely/Never/Don't Know

I wonder, now, if the whole idea of generational values is a valid one. In some senses, there are distinct traits for some generations. The major events of the past did shape the people who lived through them ( Read more... )

Last week I decided I wanted to read Contact (Carl Sagan novel). I couldn't find my copy so Friday I picked up a new one. When I read it I was stuck by a number of things. The first was how the world changed on Dr. Sagan. The novel was published in 1985 and set in 1998 running through to 2000. Like everyone else, he missed the collapse of the ( Read more... )

ideas are bulletproof

90 years of precident erased

And thelastboy reminds us, "You can't spell 'girlfriend' without I-R-L!"

I obviously read "The Marching Morons" some years ago. While it's, in some senses, an interesting story, I don't feel that it necessarily accurate. I'm not talking intelligence in the 'smart' sense, I'm talking it in the overall 'tool using, self aware' sense. Your typical chav is as smart as Albert Einstein as far as I'm talking ( Read more... )

misia talked about cultural appropriation and how it's a reflection of a certain cultural mindset. As a comment, she linked Pachelbel's Canon in D Major remixed. There's also a rock versionAnd I was thinking about other modern interpretations of classic music I've heard, like Madness' version of "Swan Lake" and Electric Hellfire Club's version of " ( Read more... )

After this road trip, I'm down to 8 states in the lower 48 I haven't visited (and by visited I mean set foot in, including airport layovers). So I decided to tighten the metric for visited, and got the "states I have slept in". Here's the list with reasons ( Read more... )

Left Elko in the morning, still took 3 hours to get out of the state. Nevada wins the award for most boring state ever. Even if Utah does have signs warning about drowsey driving and wheel arcs off the side of the highway ( Read more... )