I was thinking about learning Hebrew so my mother and I would share three languages, but then I figured that while Japanese and Arabic at the same time are probably safe, I should probably stick to just one per language family until I feel more secure in at least one of them.
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Emily - Sep 16, 2008 11:41:09 am PDT #8979 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
§ ita § - Sep 16, 2008 11:44:34 am PDT #8980 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OMG. I just got back from Career Management Services who tried to sell me $4K of professional services to help me move ahead in my career. Admittedly I'd never have to write another resume in my life (they'd keep updating it for me) and they provide all other sorts of cool-sounding stuff, $4K?? I didn't turn him down on the spot (I was still dizzy), but I will call and tell him no in a couple days.
lisah - Sep 16, 2008 11:54:12 am PDT #8981 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
I'm Taupe Armageddon Palin!
that's cool you get to go, sarameg! Is it this weekend?
sarameg - Sep 16, 2008 12:00:43 pm PDT #8982 of 10003
Next. And I got a decent fare from SW!
lisah - Sep 16, 2008 12:11:03 pm PDT #8983 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Next. And I got a decent fare from SW!
Because SW rules!
DavidS - Sep 16, 2008 12:23:55 pm PDT #8984 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Baseball oddity: both Chicago teams and both Los Angeles teams are in first place and likely to go to the playoffs. If the Yankees hadn't fallen off for the first time in fifteen years, both NYC teams would also be in the mix.
Nineteen years after the Bay Bridge series, the A's and Giants are both playing out the skein with losing seasons.
Typo Boy - Sep 16, 2008 12:27:34 pm PDT #8985 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
, environmental factors loom large (like, say, wind turbine fields killing scores of birds),
This always drives me nuts. The affects of wind on birds is trivial compared to coal and oil spills. The difference is that good wind sites tend to be playgrounds for the rich and upper middle classes. Better that poor kids in Boston suffer coal induced asthma than wind turbines be placed miles offshore where billionaires have to look at them.
DavidS - Sep 16, 2008 12:40:04 pm PDT #8986 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This always drives me nuts.
True, but I used to work for a wind turbine company and all you have to do is hold up pictures of a few raptors that got killed in the blades and you've got a potent photo-op.
Liese S. - Sep 16, 2008 12:43:42 pm PDT #8987 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Japanese is seriously hard! Our family joke is that the SO speaks better Japanese than I do. Because I didn't learn it growing up; we both studied it together when we were working for a Japanese company. And I quit before he did. So hard!
And it wouldn't really help me communicate with my family, because they all spoke pidgin instead.
Emily - Sep 16, 2008 12:54:02 pm PDT #8988 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I think it's interesting that the same program started out by teaching me how to order beer and sake in Japanese... and coffee and tea in Arabic.
Right, right, home!