January 2008
33 posts
Neuroscience: One Pill Makes You Autistic -- And... →
The Internet Party: What Happens When Google's... →
The FAIL Blog is the new icanhascheezburger →
(via jimray)
The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to... →
oh tanaka san
Japanese teacher: So the 'sou desu' form is used when you want to say something seems like something else. Like, Tanaka San seems happy -- you could say 'Tanaka San wa ureshisou desu.'
Student #1: What if he's smiling and he just won the lottery? Would you have to say he seems happy, or could you say that he is happy?
Japanese teacher: Well, you are not Tanaka San -- he could find the money to be a burden -- so you'd have to use 'sou desu.'
Student #2: What if he's yelling that he's happy?
Japanese teacher: He could be lying. You never know with Tanaka San...
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t...”
– Steve Jobs, on the Kindle . I duno, perhaps it does have to do with the fact that the product looks pretty poorly made and designed. I read tons of books a year and would love to have them digitized, but untill you can gurantee that and put it in a digital package…
WatchAtomFilms: Undressing My Mother
