We just saw the International Space Station go overhead (So. Cal.).
Here's how to see it yourself...
Liftoff to Space Exploration
Saturday, July 27, 2002
Sunday, July 21, 2002
Ed Conrad says we've been around since coal formed, and that
there's life after death...
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there's life after death...
Welcome to edconrad.com
Friday, July 19, 2002
Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Sunday, July 14, 2002
This guys says the country has been run like a mafia protection racket the last 10 years. Didn't we all kind of think this what campaign contributions were for anyway?
Saturday, July 13, 2002
Friday, July 12, 2002
ADAM SMITH WRITES:
Finally, the office in which I was working had a set of
English instructions for the phone system that had been typed up by one of
the Japanese in the office. At one point, the instructions were meant to
include the sentence "Hook the phone," meaning (I assume) "hang up the
phone."
The author of the instructions apparently didn't know how to spell "hook",
so I suppose he tried to sound it out. There is no "hoo" sound in
Japanese. The closest is something like "foo", which generally gets
transliterated as "fu". As for the "k" sound, the author apparently
decided that in this case "ck" was more likely to be correct than just
"k".
So the end result of all this was that the instructions contained the
sentence "Fuck the phone." For the Americans in the office, it was good
for about ten minutes of barely-contained laughter.
Japanese Engrish from YOU
Finally, the office in which I was working had a set of
English instructions for the phone system that had been typed up by one of
the Japanese in the office. At one point, the instructions were meant to
include the sentence "Hook the phone," meaning (I assume) "hang up the
phone."
The author of the instructions apparently didn't know how to spell "hook",
so I suppose he tried to sound it out. There is no "hoo" sound in
Japanese. The closest is something like "foo", which generally gets
transliterated as "fu". As for the "k" sound, the author apparently
decided that in this case "ck" was more likely to be correct than just
"k".
So the end result of all this was that the instructions contained the
sentence "Fuck the phone." For the Americans in the office, it was good
for about ten minutes of barely-contained laughter.
Japanese Engrish from YOU
Thursday, July 11, 2002
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Tuesday, July 09, 2002
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