Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler looked very much alike. And both of them hated it. I found this out last semester in my 1939 Films class.
Directors who want believable crowd scenes often (I've been informed) give the extras rather random/nonsense words to repeat. Is this, to coin a tongue twister, an oral lorem ipsum?
So Leonard was singing "Big Rock Candy Mountain" the other day, so of course I sought the lyrics: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/bigrock.htm It does seem a little bit absurd to me that, on the one hand, this page …
At least three of my partners in diarizing have somewhat recently encountered insect problems in their homes: Steve ("Everyone dies, even the queen"), Seth (ants and peppermint oil), and Leonard ("political intrigue").
The BEARCade, UC Berkeley's gaming facility, is selling off some of its arcade games for a few hundred bucks each. Galaga, SMASH TV, Rampage, Soul Caliber, and Tetris. That last one costs only two hundred …
So a bunch of flies decided to make my apartment their home for the winter. This was very, highly, intensely gross to me. I've only partly recovered from extreme childhood phobia of insects. But half …
I've actually caught up a tiny bit on my Russian Imperial History reading, which is quite fortunate, since I have a midterm tomorrow. Two passages particularly caught my eye. The first, I excerpt from "Memoir …
By the way, I finished Newton's Cannon and liked it. Now I need to read the rest of The Age of Unreason. I'm just glad that this sequel addiction doesn't go for, say, history. "Well, …
Seth: Thank goodness I'm not the only one who confuses Jakob Nielsen and Joel Spolsky. I assume Spolsky would take that as a compliment and Nielsen wouldn't; I see references to Nielsen on Spolsky's page …
I just received a spam...wait, is "spam" a collective noun, like "water" or "meat," or some item, like "can" or "book"? Anyway, I received an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertising life insurance. One line: "Attention All …
