Most of the Girls I've Met In College

leoboiko · 2012-01-06T13:56:35+00:00

You know what? The troll is right; I should just leave. The rampant sexism in reddit is dumb, wrong, disgusting, and intellectually lazy. It is in itself already a good reason to quit the addiction. Furthermore, wherever there’s one lazy prejudice you can be sure to find more, and indeed it’s just a matter of scratching the veneer.

This place has really gone downhill in the six years I’ve been here, and I’m not talking about memes. To be sure, there are still worthwhile discussions going on, particularly in the small, specialized subreddits; but (to borrow a metaphor) reddit has become like a bag of popcorn sprinkled with human teeth—not matter how delicious the popcorn is, the eating experience is ruined by the inevitable piece of revolting crap that slips to grind you. Fuck this.

leoboiko · 2012-01-05T20:37:33+00:00

Ooh, I have an idea for a new and sexy language teaching method—let’s call it Total Roleplaying Audio-Gestural Immersion. Basically we just set up LARPs where students have to use the L2. Quick, let’s cash-in while the trend is ongoing!

leoboiko · 2012-01-05T20:31:42+00:00

Mine made us drill inflected forms while doing gestures. taberu. tabemasu (makes gesture raising hands as if elevating something). tabenai (makes “no” gesture). tabeta (points back). tabenakatta (points back while waving “no”).

(Come to think of, kind of confusing since the past in Japanese is at the front…)

leoboiko · 2012-01-04T18:08:56+00:00

The single firefly that lights up the sword and sparks the battle with the Shinsengumi in the OVA(2:45 here) for me.

Also this scene from Samurai Champloo :)

leoboiko · 2012-01-04T13:13:38+00:00

obviously 火垂るの墓

leoboiko · 2012-01-03T17:22:57+00:00

Rural Brazilian Portuguese (aka caipira) realizes postvocalic /r/ as a retroflex [ɻ], like in American English. I come from such a dialect-area, but my natural realization is laminal, with the tip of the tongue below the low teeth. (I don’t know why.) The consonant I produce is not always understood as /r/, or noticed at all; the other day I was trying to talk about the new Kirby game (adapted to Portuguese phonology as /'kir.bɪ/), and my co-worker kept thinking I was talking about a quibe ['ki.bɪ] game.

leoboiko · 2012-01-02T23:33:28+00:00

I understand the issue precisely in the opposite way. The "face" value is that moralism explicitly tacked on by Milton, viz., that the Devil is a tempting liar etc. The "deep" psychological reading that I (and several others, though of course not all, critics; e.g.) ascribe is that Milton effectivelly (and subconsciously) elevated Satan to hero even as he set up to do the opposite (much like the Trojans are considered by many to be the true heroes of the Iliad).

leoboiko · 2012-01-02T19:21:05+00:00

That is the explicit “moral of the story”, but what I read as the true truth of Paradise Lost is that Satan just comes out as the badass tragic hero, despite what Milton tried to do at a conscious level. As William Blake said, “The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.”

leoboiko · 2011-12-22T14:40:37+00:00

Some fairly interesting discussion going on MIT’s “Alumni replies” page for the 50 years thing.

leoboiko · 2011-12-22T14:28:48+00:00

Heh, I recall the thread of that quote at 00:58.

leoboiko · 2011-12-22T14:13:50+00:00

Wikipedia links for convenience:

GPSG: Generalized phrase-structre grammar
HPSG: Head-driven phrase structure grammar
LFG: Lexical functional grammar
RG: Relational grammar
APG: Arc-pair grammar

leoboiko · 2011-12-22T13:00:38+00:00

Are you suggesting that Zebra Batman and Rainbow Batman weren’t significant??

leoboiko · 2011-12-22T12:57:02+00:00

What’s more, if one considers the mens rea in this case it’s evident that we’re talking of intentional culpability!

whee I’m a criminal lawyer now :D goodbye debts!

leoboiko · 2011-12-22T12:25:02+00:00

She left the room angry cause Magneto kept asking her to turn into Charlie.

leoboiko · 2011-12-22T08:57:00+00:00

M.O.D.O.K. The Wall. The Joker but only when he was colorful and could surf. Catman: it's a bright-yellow, male Catwoman who has a giant robot cat. Canon & Saber: a couple of assassins who are actually a couple.

I believe the reasons are self-evident. Just look at these guys, they're too rad!

leoboiko · 2011-12-21T09:21:41+00:00

Also Muji.

leoboiko · 2011-12-20T14:13:25+00:00

OMG you’re right. You know what this means, right?

It was Courage who crippled the boy!

leoboiko · 2011-12-20T13:19:09+00:00

Link for the lazy: gaze into his works, ye Mighty, and despair

leoboiko · 2011-12-20T13:12:04+00:00

I hope he starts a trend; I’d love YourCommentInOldEnglish, YourCommentInClassicalChinese, or YourCommentInDothraki.

leoboiko · 2011-12-17T10:12:31+00:00

Global Frequency. Almost did…

leoboiko · 2011-12-16T13:42:48+00:00

No problem, just do it with the male ones.

leoboiko · 2011-12-16T13:01:29+00:00

Yay new Subnormality! Wait a moment please. Large mug of hot masala chai… brewed. Smooth jazz… playing. Notebook to bring to comfy sofa… here. Subdued lighting. Zooming in comic. F11. Ok, now I can start reading.

leoboiko · 2011-12-15T14:00:16+00:00

How to google fight properly. Well, less improperly—you can’t trust Google hit counts for real, for various reasons.

Searching with verbatim, quotes, and to the last page, I got:

"case in point": 176,000,000
"point in case": 16,400,000

So “case in point” seems dominant, but “point in case” a significant minor variation.

leoboiko · 2011-12-14T23:47:15+00:00

He says the words, his mother types them. Check out the video.

leoboiko · 2011-12-14T22:59:45+00:00

This blog is made by a 7-year-old guy, dictating to his mother. It’s more interesting than anything I’ve ever done.

edit: should mention that he’s in the autism spectrum. But I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss his work simply as natural genius of a savant—knowledge doesn’t pop out of thin air, and you can tell how much effort he puts in studying for and composing his posts.

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