November 2008
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Fun with Google Translate's Filipino to English...
Mahal kita. - I love you. Mahal kita, sinta. - Costly revenue, darling
Yes! Hornberger!
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Wireless network names at a Dutch café →
BuyAnotherCupYouCheapskate
HaveYouTriedCoffeeCake?
BuyaLargeLatteGetBrownieForFree
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Words, it seems, belong to other people, anyone who expresses themselves with...
– Stephen Fry. Who else?
Or, “Language is a whore, a mistress, a wife, a pen-friend, a check-out girl, a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette.”
advisor: You're peripatetic.
me: What?
advisor: You're peripatetic!
me: Uh…is that a thinly-veiled insult?
advisor: You're walking around.
me: Oh.
inner monologue: I really should have known what that meant.
Moral of the story: know your Greek roots.
Yesterday's achievements
Drove on the interstate for the first time to take the GRE
Took the GRE and did not fail
Drove back to Oberlin at night without crashing into anything
Learned how to pump gas into a car
Played drunken Mario Kart on the Wii, only finishing last twice
All in all, a day well-spent. Now to do actual work, figure out how to send two more score reports to grad schools, and get that personal...