January 2012
“Meet Atsuo, Airi, and Akiyoshi. They were all the best and most dedicated people...”
– Jimstonefreelance.com - Did the Dimona Dozen murder the Fukushima 50?
Yelping with Cormac: Chevy's Fresh Mex →
yelpingwithcormac:
Palo Alto, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
The Sheriff stood over a table cleaved cleanly in two. Around him wellheeled young people lay newly dead. What do you have there deputy, he said.
Deputy Stevens leaned over the ruined bar and looked behind it. I got two…
In which social media spirals out of control.
December 2011
Me and the president →
“A 2007 study by the World Bank found that in China 350,000 people die...”
– Flights grounded in China as smog worsens - FT.com
“If the average American family still got the same share of income they earned in...”
– Raise Taxes on the Rich to Reward Job Creators: Nick Hanauer
November 2011
Once, when David was in Prague, he thought he saw a leprechaun. He shrugged it off and went about his business, but the leprechaun had seen him too, and it ran home to tell all of its friends about seeing David. It described to them in elaborate detail how it had peeked from behind a tree and seen David walk by. Of course, none of the leprechaun’s friends believed the story, and refused to speak...
Death and Resurrection of an SSD →
rentzsch:
Summary: SSDs live fast, die young, and pretend to be OK even while they’re dying. Don’t use one without awesome backups. And sometimes, they come back from the dead. ※ ※ ※ On November 30 2010, I received my first SSD: a 240 GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro. On Thursday, November 10 2011, the…
Something to keep track of … Just installed one of these in my MBP a...
October 2011
A man is having a rough day at work, the traffic is awful coming home, and he’s just generally having a miserable day so he decides to grab a drink at his local watering hole rather than waiting in the traffic. As he pulls into the parking lot, he realizes that the bar has been put under new ownership, with a flashy front and a bouncer at the door.
So the guy walks up and the bouncer stops...
After Quasimodo met his unfortunate end, Notre Dame cathedral was looking for a new bell ringer. So the priests put up signs asking for qualified applicants to please apply at the cathedral and spend a week sifting through the applicants to find the best one.
After five days of going through the never-ending line of applicants, they still hadn’t found anyone who could ring those bells...
A man walks into an employment agency to look for a job. Times are hard, and there’s not much to speak of in the listings, but at last he finds one that catches his eye: “school bus driver.” He takes down the information, gives them a call, gets an interview, and is hired.
He receives his job training in the bus he is to drive. It is decorated both inside and out with pictures...
September 2011
“Well of course this is a war on birth control and abortions and everything,...”
– Texas GOP Rep On Cuts To Family Planning: ‘Of Course This Is A War On Birth Control’ | ThinkProgress
5 tags
“Narrow-mind “Idol” Mari Iijima, a Japanese singer now living in the USA, refuse...”
– (via animesos)
8 tags
clientsfromhell:
Client: (Calling our computer store for assistance) “I turn on my computer, but all I can see is the green LED on! The screen is still black!” Me: “Your computer is here. You have only the monitor”.
August 2011
1 tag
Rainbow in the sky →
“This doesn’t mean that there will be no anonymous or pseudonymous conversation...”
– Derek Powazek - “Nobody Uses Their Real Name” and Other Outdated Notions
Cabinet numbers →
7 tags
2 tags
A lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, “I would like to buy some cyanide.”
The pharmacist asked, “Why?”
The lady replied, “I need it to poison my husband.”
The pharmacist said, “Lord have mercy! That’s against the law! Absolutely not!”
The lady reached into her purse and...
“The prospect of someone in the government trying to design a programme that...”
– Stimulus thinking: Adventures in tea-party cognitive dissonance | The Economist
“The county government originally pushed to open a nudist area for the first time...”
– http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/08/117_92149.html
Mita Masahiro said: “Once a book goes out of copyright, it’s bound to be translated horribly right away. We’ve got to extend copyright beyond the author’s death to prevent this.” As soon as Saint-Exupéry’s work entered the public domain, Mr. Mita immediately produced a horrible translation of Le Petit Prince. When I confronted him about this at a Japan Writers’ Association meeting, he mumbled...
July 2011
We will study your proposal.
English Statement Made by a Japanese
Person
Actual Meaning in American
I See.
No.
Ah.
No.
Ah-hah.
No.
Yes.
No.
That is difficult.
That is completely impossible.
That is very interesting.
That is the stupidest thing I ever heard.
We will study your proposal.
We will feed your proposal to a...
Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X →
Some handy information on ways to reduce the size of PDFs produced in OSX. But you’d think that the better solution here isn’t “give a smaller-size PDF of your presentation slides to everyone,” but “give them a useful text document with the in-depth information they didn’t get from your visually oriented slides.”
“English syntax is a deep and interesting subject. It is much too important to be...”
– 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Love, the moon, and translation →
AKB48: The media response →
June 2011
Translation coordinator job (Shinbashi, Tokyo)
(Forwarding this info for a fellow laborer in the word mines.)
Intac Co., Ltd. is currently seeking a translation coordinator. The position is full-time and will be based at the office in Shinbashi, Tokyo starting at the end of July. Tasks will include liaising with clients and freelance translators, editing/proofreading of translated materials, budget control, schedule management, translation,...