I used to work at a website company with some Israeli coworkers who'd talk to each other in Hebrew, and I noticed that they used the English word “border” when talking about borders on a page element, even pluralizing it in Hebrew (“shtei borderim”).
That same back-formation process gave English “cherry” from the French « cherise. »
I’ve been told there are some really good one in Israeli auto mechanic slang:
Rear axle: בקאקס
Front axle: פרונט בקאקס
Headlights: סילבים
Headlight: סילב
“The Pit and the Pendulum,” Edgar Allan Poe (1842)
"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now
just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down
we all know I have no life, so:
When she says book-length, she ain’t kidding. This essay is about 61,000 words, so the Hugos would count it as a novel (40,000 words or more) if it were fiction.
It’s very worth reading, as is the rest of Last War in Albion. (Which I really need to get back to.)
Didn't someone already start an actual real-world Rearden Steel?
Yeah, better if they'd just gone with that.
… So they put a scene in where his name is “Sam Francisco,” and the human partner is like “That's ridiculous, I'm gonna call you George,” so they didn't have to change the rest of the script.
Yeah, in the script for the original movie, an immigration had given him the name “George Jetson.” A few days before filming started, the filmmakers realized that they needed permission from Hannah-Barbera, and didn't have it. …
You know the story behind the main alien character being named George, right?
Have earlier eras been explored for the Cars setting? The US Civil War? The Revolutionary War? The Battle of Hastings? Thermopylae?
I wonder what things would be like now if 9/11 hadn’t happened.
Bush Jr would probably have been a one-termer. If we’d gotten a two-term Democrat for 2005–2012, we’d have liberals instead of Roberts and Alito, and the Voting Rights Act doesn’t get gutted in 2013.
I’ve heard good things about the sky over the port in Chiba City.
Tolkien coined that one because he thought “commenpotato” would be linguistically anachronistic.
Yeah. A planet where someone left behind a book about Miami Vice.
Can we toss “competency” on the fire too?
I was thinking some kind of powdered mix.
Gemini (the free version) has helped me out with some simple Typst and Pandoc/Lua stuff.
Wikipedia is telling me that the dryness of martinis has increased over time, with a 2:1 gin:vermouth ratio being popular in the 1920s, 3:1 in the ’30s, 4:1 in the ’40s. Tom Lehrer, in “Bright College Days” (1959) recommended a 6:1 ratio.
So a martini is made with gin & dry vermouth, but a *dry* martini has *less* dry vermouth. What’s up with that? Why does taking out some of the dry ingredient increase dryness? Is gin dryer than even dry vermouth?
This hasn’t been my experience. I’ve seen a few of ’em in the last few days.
BREAKING: Claude Mythos discovers 60-year old computing bug, PEBCAK, that's been silently plagued the tech industry for years. It suggests resolving it by eliminating the entity in the middle and replacing it with a more efficient model.
VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?
ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]
in the early days of the net websites used to have messages like "welcome to my amazing webzone, i hope you enjoy the things i've collected that represent my strange mind." now they're just like "by clicking this box you agree to recieve targeted advertisements in your dreams"
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
Close view inside an Akai VCR showing a brown circuit board packed with resistors, red capacitors, wiring, and a black NEC chip, with the parts arranged in a way that feels both technical and oddly elegant.
Interior shot of an Akai VCR circuit board filled with capacitors, resistors, ceramic discs, and bundled wires, with a large black integrated circuit at the center and the whole layout looking dense and carefully planned.
Tight close up of an Akai VCR motherboard featuring a large Akai marked system chip, multicolored ribbon wires, solder points, and printed board labels, giving a good look at the hidden logic inside the machine.
Detail from inside an Akai VCR showing blue adjustment trimmers, red capacitors, black capacitors, and white plastic connectors lined up across a warm brown circuit board, with the electronics looking almost architectural.
When I first saw a circuit board as a kid. I was amazed with the complexity and the beauty of it all. I decided to take a moment and appreciate my Akai VCR while I have it open.
From what I’m seeing, she deactivated her own account.