Tuesday, already?

[silveradept]

Today went by as quickly as the last one did - mostly because it was a clone of yesterday, for the most part. There's still plenty of memesheepage to go around in the previous entries, so don't be shy.

This case is why you need to proofread. Period.

And while welfare recipients can't study for their bachelor's, maybe they can work at Wal-Mart and take community college courses that will make them management material. Will we be seeing Wal-Mart College soon?

More AOHell: Even the dead can't unsubscribe. Oy.

In an example where both things being done seem reasonable, a German gent protesting Bush using the swastika for the s is in trouble. Since Germany still sees the swastika as Nazi symbolism, which is banned, the protest gets lost and the guy is probably going to be fined. Let's return the swastika to what it was, while still remembering what happens when people corrupt symbols to their own purposes.

Something that will be sure to piss off sharpsight: Church of Scotland expert calls for nanotech watchdog. Something to keep an eye on the scientists, but using hopefully scientific ethics rather than blindly lashing about with nonscientific reasons. I wouldn't put money on it, though.

Girlfriends, a shop that has it all. Well, maybe it's just a furniture store. But if it's more than that, maybe we'll find love there.

Nanotube capacitor-batteries - charge uberquick, hold charge for a long time. This might be the battery innovation that Tesla Motors is looking for.

In terms of an angelic choir, I'm a tiny little kid with pink cheeks and a childlike disposition. Or something.

Find your Celestial Choir

Or maybe it's something else. Considering what I've gotten for non-compliments anonymously, I'd say that result fits pretty well. The turnip comment is sticking in my head, and I think it'll be a useful phrase, much like "Stupid, stupid rat creature". Oh, well. I'm not perfect, as the universe proves to me time and time again, and in matters of the heart, I am not necessarily my brother's, sister's, or friend's keeper. Still trying to find the balance between total empathy and total stoicism. I'd rather not be a doormat, but I'd rather not be an arsehole, either. Such is life, I guess. I just wonder what I'll be like when I'm the one who's moved to unfamiliar territory.

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[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

The AOL article scares me. My mom still has the AOL accounts we got waaaaaaaay back when having 14.4bps was impressive. Despite having Comcast for her 'net, she keeps the AOL. My plans were to show her how to use AIM and convert her to gmail (already nearly there on the gmail) while she's here this weekend so we can call and cancel AOL...that is, assuming AOL actually lets us cancel it. I'll keep you posted on it.


I think that is an acurate meme answer for you. Interestingly enough, I got the same result. We seem to have a pattern of getting the same results on these quizzes, have you noticed?

i really hope that when you move you have an easier time than me.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

This case is why you need to proofread. Period.

I saw that and I KNEW it was gonna be that thing Neil Gaiman posted. xD

Will we be seeing Wal-Mart College soon?

I... I think I just threw up in my mouth a little...

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Let's return the swastika to what it was, while still remembering what happens when people corrupt symbols to their own purposes.

Actually, it's more than just symbolism that Hitler's Nazi Party ruined. Hundreds of formerly useful terms have been corrupted for generations to come, such as "Gruppenführer," which means something like "Scoutmaster," but is now associated with mobile gas chambers in the Baltic States.

Or, for that matter, the word, "Führer" itself, which simply means "guide." For example, you can still go ask for a "Reiseführer," which is a travel guide. But you can't go around talking about the keen new book you bought by saying "the Führer is great!" because you'll be arrested for Nazism.

Maybe when the grandchildren of the people who were alive for WWII pass out of living memory, the German language will be restorable to its former uses.

Have teh best

-=TK

[rimspace.livejournal.com]

Actually, the iconography of Cherubim as human, winged infants is a peculiarity of western Christianity. I've never quite worked out why they used winged infants - the passages in the Tanakh that describe them are anything but infantile or cute, invoking hybrid forms more akin to the Egyptian and Babylonian part animal, part human supernaturals.

That quiz is using the In Nomine choirs, which takes bits from all over as well as new stuff and mixes them up.

[silveradept]

Gaiman would be interested in something like that, yes. As a writer, I'm sure he understands the value of a misplaced comma.

As for Wal-Mart College, well, it's probably supposed to be Franchise Management 101, but really, Wal-Mart College. That makes me wonder how many people will proudly wave their Wal-Mart management credentials as "all tha edjumacation ah ever needed" and continuing to look down on people who get bachelor's and master's degrees as overeducation elitist snobs.

[silveradept]

Perhaps. I suspect that the memory of Hitler will be carried on through the Jewish faith as much as anything, and so the symbols may take longer than just descendants dying to recover itself. German may be able to recover quicker than the swastika.

[silveradept]

Good to know about the In Nomine stuff.

Do tell us more about what Cherubim are supposed to be. Maybe they were nerfed from their original forms because they resemble pagan gods too much?

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

M) There's still time. The steroid example is, of course, horribly flawed.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Possibly. But unlike Hanukkah and the Passover, there's no holiday to commemorate the Holicaust.

Have teh best

-=TK

[silveradept]

Then it may be forgotten, but I suspect it will take a very long time.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

however, there is that rather large holocaust museum down in DC, as well as the display at the Statue of Liberty. I think we're covered for quite a long time on not forgetting it.


My kids will get told about their grandfather's parent's family that died at the hand of the Nazi's if only because it's part of our family history, and explains why there aren't any family members on that side of the family.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Really, I think German already has recovered for the most part. Has been since the Berlin Wall fell in '89 IMHO. I mean, sure there are some words that are still verboten, but there are words in the English/American dictionary that are also forbidden.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, and this is something I don't think we should forget. Nor, for that matter, should we forget any of the other genocides that corrupt politics and history are doing their best to obscure.

Rather, what I hope for is that someday, German culture will be able to revitalise the good points of its past and regain many beautiful things that were lost, instead of being afraid of the immense cruelty of its past at every turn.

Have teh best

-=TK

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

I agree. In the books of Daniel and Ezekiel, the apocryphal text of Enoch, and in the New Testament Revelation (see ch 4, Silver), Cherubim are described as almost grotesquely frightening in their multi-faced, winged massiveness.

Have teh best

-=TK