Fedoralingo Quiz

I thought I put this up a while ago, but I guess not. Well, here it is! Here what is, you ask? The Fedoralingo Quiz! Can't you read titles? What's "Fedoralingo?" you ask? Well, lemme tell ya! A "fedora" was a popular hat the fellas wore back in the 30's and 40's in the good ol' U.S. of A., see? A perfect symbol for the particular brand of slang, or "lingo," that they used back then.

So c'mon along and dip your toes into some fedoralingo! And feel free to make one of your own using whatever slang or regional dialect you happen to know!

1) Why, I oughta come on over there and give ya...

a) what for.
b) a piece of my mind.
c) a knuckle sandwich.

2) Get a load of...

a) the gams on that dame.
b) the stiffs in this rinky-dink gin joint.
c) the riffraff in this two-bit flophouse.

3) What's all the...

a) hubbub, bub?
b) ballyhoo, buddy-boy?
c) folderol, fellas?

4) You ain't so slick, ya big...

a) galoot!
b) lug!
c) chump!

5) You fellas got the skinny on...

a) that swanky new jalopy?
b) that snazzy little number?
c) that ritzy ol' broad?

(P.S. This is not actually a quiz, as any one of the answers given works fine for each question.)

Wafflecube

Inspired by Isaac's suggestion from March 5th on

http://twitter.com/ChaoticIsaac

I give you Wafflecube, the cake-stuffed wafflestructure. An important part of this balanced, nutritional brunch.
The tesseract version gave me indigestion.

Image of Mother of Son of Ceiling Cat

I saw an image of the mother of the son of Ceiling Cat, who looks surprisingly like Ceiling Cat, burnt into my toast this morning.
... ebay?

Average Americano

The elevator at the Marriott Hotel in Minneapolis seems to expect a person in America to average 350 lbs. That's 159 kg. , 25 stone. .. Also notice the Health Club on the 7th floor! Things that make you go hmm.

Easter Candy.. A Little Too Happy

There's a candy store in the 6Quebec building right across Marquette from the Wells Fargo Building in downtown Minneapolis. In the window they have oversized (for some perhaps) replicas of candies in a display. I can not believe this was created and arranged innocently. Wouldn't you just love to get one of those in your easter basket?

The well laid plans of mice and sheiks

A week off and my failure at capitalism.

Japanese is over for the summer. I now have a week "off" until Fall semester starts next Tuesday.

The Japanese TA for my class recommended I look into working at the writing center at the U, and get paid for what I've been doing for friends and colleagues on many occasions, for free. 

So many little things I could be "not doing for free". Graphic design. Translation. Tutoring. Writing stories... music. Tooting my own horn. etc. but that wouldn't be me. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth to think of asking for payment to do things I enjoy doing anyway. It would be like..  - "Can you please help me cross the street, young man?" - "Sure, but it'll cost ya!"

I guess I'm not a good capitalist.

Life after Death?... What?

  I often have extreme difficulty understanding how human beings process and prioritize the perceptions of their world. The concept of life after death, or rather, the yearning for such a thing, is puzzling to me.

  Our reality is made up of many dimensional facets, the perfunctory ones being length, width, height and time. We are a natural part of that construct, and we function perfectly well as such. As an individual; one of many, I occupy a finite portion of that construct. This is, of course, necessary to function properly. If any of my dimensional aspects were to be changed to a value of infinity, I would no longer function correctly in reality. Imagine a person infinitely tall or infinitely wide. That would entail immobility at the least. This is why a desire for infinite life, i.e. infinite time is not reasonable to me. It would be like wishing you were infinitely tall.

Given this information, my question is, why would human beings find immortality or "life after death" desirable?

Thanks for thinking with me on this.

I have been

I have been very busy... OK.. yeah.. I know.. everyone says that. Well. Here's my junk. I've been taking an intensive course in Japanese this summer. M-F, 8AM to Noon. It is really doing wonders for my abilities in that language. 

On top of that, I've been lucky enough to receive a FLAS [Foreign Language Area Studies] fellowship from the Consortium for the Study of the Asias, that will pay for the course. 

This means Yay.

Also.. I'll be teaching the third level Irish class at Gaeltacht Minnesota starting this Fall. I'm now proud to count myself among the stellar instructors there. Well... I mean to say.. The instructors there are stellar, and now they're getting me in the mix. We'll see how things fly.

This also means Yay.. but busy Yay.

Chikezie no likey Ryan touchy touchy

After Ryan went and grabbed ahold of Chikezie's head after one performance early in the season, it appears as if he's grown a bit wary of Ryan's roaming hands.