I hate 4×4s (and SUVs) in suburbia and the city. If you actually need one and you’re really going to use it, fine. But if you buy one to feel safe or any other bullshit reason and you don’t actually go off-road, then when you park or drive near me I hope you [...]
I started out looking for something that automatically puts text through Babelfish multiple times to get half-English back out. Why? It’s funny. Here’s this paragraph, Babelised:
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Let’s see if I can blog this by email before my computer restarts automatically.
After you install some Windows Updates, Windows earnestly insists that you have to restart your computer as a matter of urgency. Apparently urgently enough to popup a dialog box that takes the focus from any other windows you may have open [...]
As a grammar nazi I notice trivial minutiae like this. Lately I’ve started using GMail to store and archive all my mail so that I can always get to my email no matter what computer I’m on. Maybe I’m lazy, or maybe I’m obsessive.
Anyway, since GMail started a couple of years ago, the [...]
Tonight I called a local Indian restaurant named Dawat to see if they have any tight-arse Tuesday specials. I will paraphrase the conversation:
Her: Good evening, Dawat.
Me: Oh yeah hi, I’m just wondering if you have any specials tonight.
Her: I’m sorry?
Me: Do you guys have any specials on Tuesday nights?
Her: Um, the wrap, is that what [...]