Friday, September 26, 2003
Woops; I'm currently on hiatus, without a connection to the internet and all; I'll be back..uh..sometime.
(Posted from a study hall)
Read Anya's blog whilst I'm away! Here!
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(Posted from a study hall)
Read Anya's blog whilst I'm away! Here!
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Cannibal threat pygmy band record album
"A group of Congolese pygmies - which until recently was under threat from cannibal soldiers - has recorded an album about the struggle of jungle life.Pygmy band Ndima, of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has recorded the songs with the help of United Nations funding.
The group used traditional instruments, including animal horns, bamboo pipes, stretched jungle creepers and pipes made from tree trunks....more..."
Tuesday, September 02, 2003
The Register:
"What would you give up to keep your Internet connection? According to a NOP survey on behalf of BT Yahoo! Broadband, six in ten people would give up their favourite choccy bar, half would give up booze and four in ten would be happy to toss away their mobile phone. Oh, and one in ten Net users would even be prepared to dump a boyfriend or girlfriend to stay online. Whatever next? ®"
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"What would you give up to keep your Internet connection? According to a NOP survey on behalf of BT Yahoo! Broadband, six in ten people would give up their favourite choccy bar, half would give up booze and four in ten would be happy to toss away their mobile phone. Oh, and one in ten Net users would even be prepared to dump a boyfriend or girlfriend to stay online. Whatever next? ®"
Saturday, August 30, 2003
Friday, August 29, 2003
Thursday, August 28, 2003
OK, so maybe I overreacted about me hair. But still, I liked it better before. It still looks good..I was just very sad; plus the hair lady combed it fucky, so that made my reaction worse. =p
It still looks good, just not -as- good.
(And Anya, it still looks better than at Brown; the humidity made it all fucky there...it usually is much better than it was during my (brief) stay there.)
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It still looks good, just not -as- good.
(And Anya, it still looks better than at Brown; the humidity made it all fucky there...it usually is much better than it was during my (brief) stay there.)
Sunday, August 24, 2003
Vocabulary: mu:
mu: /moo/
The correct answer to the classic trick question “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?”. Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer “yes” is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but “no” is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the correct answer is usually “mu”, a Japanese word alleged to mean “Your question cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions”. Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm. The word ‘mu’ is actually from Chinese, meaning ‘nothing’; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense. In Chinese it can also mean “have not” (as in “I have not done it”), or “lack of”, which may or may not be a definite, complete 'nothing'). Native speakers of Japanese do not recognize the Discordian question-denying use, which almost certainly derives from overgeneralization of the answer in the following well-known Rinzai Zen koan:
A monk asked Joshu, “Does a dog have the Buddha nature?” Joshu retorted, “Mu!”
Good word, even if it's slang.
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mu: /moo/
The correct answer to the classic trick question “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?”. Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer “yes” is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but “no” is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the correct answer is usually “mu”, a Japanese word alleged to mean “Your question cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions”. Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm. The word ‘mu’ is actually from Chinese, meaning ‘nothing’; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense. In Chinese it can also mean “have not” (as in “I have not done it”), or “lack of”, which may or may not be a definite, complete 'nothing'). Native speakers of Japanese do not recognize the Discordian question-denying use, which almost certainly derives from overgeneralization of the answer in the following well-known Rinzai Zen koan:
A monk asked Joshu, “Does a dog have the Buddha nature?” Joshu retorted, “Mu!”
Good word, even if it's slang.
Wee!
