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Polamd

I’m off to Poland this weekend with about a dozen friends, some of them Polish. We’re planning on traveling out there with group tickets, staying a coupla days in Brezlbnvzcyzbvyz, living in reasonably-priced dwellings and and eating sumptuously reasonably-priced feasts and meeting pricelessly good folks.

I’ll probably be back on Sunday and at any rate back in time to teach on Monday.

Incidentally, for those who remember Luke “Ancient” Mariner (I gave him that nickname), he’ll be visiting on the weekend following Cinco de Mayo. So there will probably be a little party at my place over that weekend. Stay posted.

PIE

I don’t like PIE: Cookies from Hell.

Wood Fueled Truck

This article says that a man has modified his truck to make it a wood-fueled truck.

Language Lab Time

Language Lab Time.

Okay. Here’s what we’re doing today.

Spot the Phish. (I missed two).

Listen to some people talking. Just about all of these mp3s are from NPR, and a lot of them stink. Try the interview with Linus Torvald up top. It’s pretty long — about 27 minutes — but Linus is fun to listen to. Of course, you’ll already know what he’s going to say — even I did — but he does a truly stellar job explaining complex stuff in a very lucid, simple way.

Take note of his accent. Does it sound more to you like British or American English? Also, take note of how he pronounces “Linux”.

There’s also another (quite humourous) listening opportunity at the bottom of this main entry.

THEN

Try one of these online tests.

Commonly Confused Words — I expect you should all score high on this one.

Google Speed Test. Some of these questions — you have to search for them in Google — are absolute killers.

The above two tests both come from a sorta creepy network/dating website that’s full of this kind of stuff. Mostly crap. So be warned.

ALSO:

Listen to a short radio documentary about the Smothers Brothers. Narrated by Steve Martin.

Listen to a song from the Smothers Brothers: The Impossible Dream.

For more links on the Smothers Brothers:

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Mike’s take on the new pope

This is my official New Pope blog entry.

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Klingon Civil War


funny.


It is a little known fact that the Klingons aided the Confederacy during the war and would've been victorious had the Romulans not interfered and given the Union their cloaking device. I was assigned to be cameraman and security detail.

We stand as one

I don’t know when exactly this video was made (at any rate after 9/11, when “everything changed”) but I found out about it just recently — dig it:

America We Stand as One is just one more tribute to that stuff that happened back then–and how, like the chick from Titanic–we got to get over it. Bless his heart. And it’s great that all the profits from the website are going to charity.

Oh , and after you watch that, be sure to check out America F-ck Yeah. It really rounds the whole thing out quite nicely. Quickly, now!

Nu Pope

The Pope. The Pope. The Pope is on Fire.
We don’t need no water let the … um… can’t fool me again.

Three pop-culture allusions, two lines. Damn, I’m good.

Listen my children

As we slowly creep to the midnight hour, gentle readers, I might mention that on this night in 1775, Paul Revere and some others made their midnight ride. Wiki.

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Dutchmen

Translated a blurb for my buddy’s new CD into English. Wanna see the first draft.
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