brief notes

March 20, 2006

Two things:

  1. Manu Chao’s Radio Bemba Sound System would be a damn good candidate for the official album of the vernal equinox. Just saying. And, of course, “La Primavera” from that album would be an extra-good candidate for the official theme song of the vernal equinox.
  2. Finnish and Japanese are related. I can’t prove it, but goddamn it I know it’s true. There’s too many freaky similarities for it to be a concidence, including:
    • ‘k’ particles for turning verbs into questions.
      Finnish: -ko/-kö
      e.g. on (is) becomes onko (is?)
      Japanese: か -ka
      e.g. です desu (is) becomes ですか desuka (is?)
    • ‘n’ suffixes for indicating possession.
      Finnish: -n
      e.g. lääkäri (doctor) becomes lääkärin (doctor’s)
      Japanese: の -no
      e.g. ホチキス hochikisu (stapler) becomes ホチキス の hochikisu no (stapler’s)
    • That reminds me, neither has a definite (or an indefinite) article.
    • They have similar rules for astmevaheldus and the like.

    Obviously there are huge differences in vocabulary and grammar, and one’s writing system was based on Swedish and German while the other’s was based on Chinese. But I’m not talking about that.

rage fury

March 19, 2006

“Due to extenuating circumstance, our associates are not able to take your call right now. Please try calling again at a later time.”

Fuck you, Bank of America. You strand me in Europe without being able to withdraw any cash from my bank account, then you don’t even let me get money out of one of your own goddamn ATMs, and then you don’t even have the decency to pick up the fucking phone. I sat through your stupid menu and pressed ‘9′ to hear more options, and it’s not my fault you didn’t offer “Press 3 if we suddenly and inexplicably decided to prevent you from using any ATMs anywhere in the world” as one of the choices.

Sons of bitches. I suppose I should be grateful I can be angry at something, but I’m not.

The above notwithstanding, I’m in a good mood and things are going well and Tartu was great and I only regret, say, 60% of my spring break. But it pisses me off to have to borrow money from my friends when there’s perfectly good money sitting there in my bank account that I’m being forbidden from accessing.

Shards of a mirror

March 9, 2006

Spring is in the air. Birds are chirping, it’s 57° outside, and tomorrow it’s supposed to get up to 65°. The day after tomorrow, though, temperatures will range from -4° to -23° or so and it’ll be snowing.

What the fuck is wrong with me?

Am I that desperate for a proper winter?

“just forget the people working for us inside the shop or in china”

March 6, 2006

Wal-Mart: where else are you going to go when you need to buy golf balls and dandruff shampoo at the same time?

Open Letter to Congress

March 6, 2006

I sent the following letter today to each Senator and Congressman supposed to represent me, after having read this frankly horrifying post.

I recently learned that Senator Frist has threatened to change the bipartisan nature of the Senate Committee on Intelligence unless the Committee agrees not to investigate the warrantless NSA wiretapping. Even ignoring the fact that he is trying to derail an investigation before it begins, it is reprehensible that he would hold a crucial committee hostage in this fashion.

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piss stain

March 2, 2006

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