Midday update

[silveradept]

Since I’ll be off to lands of the unknown, where the ‘Net does not have hold, you get a quick update before I go.

Galactus is Coming! It makes a more convining case, than, say, Kneel Before Zod.

Guantanamo heart patient cannot go to a civillian hospital. So get your treatment on base or not at all. Perhaps they’re worried about him talking to someone about what goes on? Or will he manage to shoot himself while in custody, like this person, who shot himself with a gun while handcuffed in a police cruiser, managed to. I’m really wondering whether “shot himself” is an excuse in this case for something else.

If you want to see some degree of what happens between the time a beauty model walks in the door and the image you see on the billboard, have a look at Evolution (available through The Hard Sell). It was part of the Dove campaign about “natural beauty”, and it demonstrates, in time-lapse, all the work that goes into making a pretty face. Including, as you’ll see in the post-production, distortion of the real features of the model.

Something that may please greenhornline more than anyone else - The Cat Came Back, the very next day. They thought he was a goner, but the cat came back...

’Tis the season... to do stupid things. A gent in Lousiana died in a car crash after stealing some Christmas lights.

We might be eventually seeing the days where a significant amount of our lights are actually going to be LEDs, thanks to an efficiency jump in white organic LEDs.

Ad-space sold on laptop = free laptop. Good ingenuity to make that work out, and ads aren’t in some place where they’ll necessarily be annoying or have to be looked at. Makes some of us wish that we’d thought of it first.

For taniwhanui; Alliteration of things I like, letter Y, ten things. (This took some thinking)

Yakisoba (Yummy!)
Yogurt (with fruit in it)
Yarn (to play with it, of course)
Yoko Shimomura, for her excellent work on Kingdom Hearts
Yoko Kanno - for her many contributions to lots of good anime soundtracks.
Young Frankenstein (That’s Frank-en-schteen!)
The Yokohama Giants (but only because Chiyo-chan does)
Yukari-sensei, but not for her measurements
“You’re welcome”
Yule, admittedly because of the prezzies associated with some other VEWPRF as much as the rebirth of the Sun.

Last remarks - here’s a couple flickr groups for the grammarians - Quotation Mark Abuse for “unnecessary” marks, and Grocer's Apostrophe, for when thing’s are not allowed, or something.

Comments

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Ah, Politically incorrect cartoons from the 80's for the win. Although, i did like the 9 lives angelkitties at the end. I sort of remember seeing this before..maybe it was a PBS short or something?

what's Yakisoba?

Also, Yarn - for it keeps you warm when knitted into 8 foot lengths :-P

[silveradept]

Maybe.

Yakisoba is noodles. Yummy when fried and seasoned.

As for yarn - no, it's for playing with. That some people can turn yarn into things like scarves is just a side effect.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

so, you're a cat?

[silveradept]

Only occasionally. There's probably one running around in the back of my head somewhere, and he likes yarn.

*purrs at you*

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

*giggles* no wonder Will likes you so much....

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

M) *floats* 'Yakisoba' is fried soba: 'soba' is a variety [N) 'Type' would be a less ambiguous word... 'A group that is distinguished from other groups by a specific characteristic or set of characteristics'.] of noodles, as opposed to for example ramen or udon. The meaning of '焼き' can be demonstrated in the context of yakizakana, fried fish ('sakana'), or yakiniku, fried meat.

N) *in the background, interest at learning that that 'yaki' is the second part of taiyaki... and '鯛' is a type of fish...* Sou ka. *smiles; happiness*

M) Yakisoba is not something that you can fry: it is something already fried. And there are more types and names of noodles than just soba...

[silveradept]

This is true. I stand clarified. Still, the way I had it was pan-fried with a little oil and the seasoning packet.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N) Galactus is coming: hilarious, most of all the line 'Son, the law of averages and the sheer number* of giant space men who want to kill you means probably one will get through at some point.'.

Speaking of apostrophes, for some reason whenever you use an apostrophe, it appears (to us) as an ampersand, followed by apos, followed by a semicolon. Curiously, it seems to appear normally when viewed in Firefox. Why is this?

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Because my client is intelligent and uses the escape codes for apostrophes, quotation marks, and other symbols that could be misconstrued as markup tags or indicators. Mail clients do not always understand the escape codes, and thus print what is actually on the screen. Firefox and other browsers do understand those codes, and thus substitute the appropriate typographical mark.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N) (But Internet Explorer, it seems, doesn't.) If mail clients and all brousers correctly interpret the characters themselves, but some of them not the escape codes, then why/how is it intelligent of your client to use the escape codes instead of the characters?
*rereads* What markup languages use apostrophes as tags/indicators?

[silveradept]

These are Unicode escape characters, I believe, so anything that defaults to ASCII or Latin character sets may not render them properly, because they have no idea what it means.

XML and its derived languages (XHTML, for example, or the iTunes database) often use quotation marks and apostrophe single quote marks as ways of defining values of the various structural tags. There are other languages, I believe that also use those sorts of things, but I'm not aware of them completely.