Stuff from 3 May, 2006
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 3 May, 2006.
Sunset On Walk
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 3 May, 2006.
Girlspeak to English Dictionary - Some of these aren’t the greatest, but there are some real gems in here.
You see, I started the song quoting by keeping the titles of the songs actually a legitimate part of my post. That takes class. Class and style. If you want to do something easy and lame, why don't you all just go … Shadow Stabbing … or something. Honestly.
Maybe someday after enough research and knowledge has been amassed, someone will finally have produced a fully functioning, wholly operational, and completely accurate "Girlspeak" language that people everywhere can learn. If we start now and work hard enough, I am sure we could see this feat realized in……oh, 2 or 3 millenium. No, no, what's the next step up from millenium?
Yeah that's pretty horrible. But they should invent a food chewing machine. I am getting tired of chewing my food. And it takes up so much time.
My Favorite Natalie Dee cartoon yet - The tree looks so sad.
I think you're trying to think of epoch, unless you don't think that would be enough time, either.
Americans Are Not Healthy - This study found that Americans are quite sick, when compared to other industrialized nations. Now, I was doubtful, but check out all the variables they statistically corrected for: “when you compare like groups in the US and the UK, people in the US are considerably sicker than their counterparts in the UK. This is after factors such as age, race, income, education and gender were taken into consideration. The most startling conclusion was that although the richest Americans were better off than the poorest Americans, they did no better (health-wise) than the poorest of the English.”
Every once and a while, though far too often for it to be acceptable, I walk into the fourth floor elevator in the Owens Science Building on campus and punch the Floor 4 button. Then I hit it a couple more times and impatiently wonder why the door shut and the elevator is not moving.
Then I realize that, if I want to travel downwards, perhaps I should select a floor that is below the one I am on.
Awesome cell phone attachment - Ok, it looks like a rotary phone receiver, with a curly cord and everything, but then it plugs into your cell phone. So basically, you are talking into a phone receiver with the cord running into your pocket.
This gun launches pink teddy bears - Don’t worry, the attached parachute opens at the apex of the bear’s flight, preventing any injury. Apparently this is for weddings.
Why the Internet Is Threatened aka - Ok, stay with me on this one: in this link, Tim Berners-Lee (commonly known as the inventor of the internet), writes an article about why the Internet as we know it is threatened. The problem, in my inadequate nutshell, is this: companies in the US are tending to put preference to one type of traffic over another, which could eventually extend to, say, Comcast making your connection to Barnes and Noble Booksellers’ website much faster than Amazon in exchange for payment from Barnes and Noble. This is a serious problem as it undermines the nature of the Internet.
What struck me most, however, is the anecdote that Berners-Lee leads off with. Keep in mind, high speed internet here in the US delivers about 4Mb/s. Compare: “In France, for example, I understand that the layers are separated, and my colleague in Paris attributes getting 24Mb/s net, a phone with free international dialing and digital TV for 30euros/month to the resulting competition.” At the current conversion rate, this is $37/month. Essentially, our internet here stanks.
