Thinking Sands

Author: wmeddie

  • Can’t speak English

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    22:10 Water is a little software than they’ll have you think.

  • Live search is a joke

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    After scanning rather quickly through my Aapache access.log I found a line that really stood out. 69.114.242.22 – – [01/Oct/2006:15:05:04 -0400] “GET /rms.html HTTP/1.1” 200 1390 “http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=buts&mkt=es-US&form=QBRE&go.x=9&go.y=14” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)” “-” The interesting part is the “q=buts” part. That means that the user searched for the word “buts” and was…

  • Package!

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    Today I got a package from my girlfriend. After having a pretty sucky day (locking myself out of my apartment, missing 15 minutes of class, and rushing to get to a class an hour early.) this box really really made my day. It had the cutest letter ever too, filled with dolphin stickers. I have…

  • Windows

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    In a work related e-mail it seems that the word crash and unstability brings up a bunch of ads for “Fix & Install Windows Easy!” “Fix Windows DLL & Other PC Errors Instantly”. Seriously why do people use this shit, it amazes me every day.

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    So it looks like Google’s writely is shaping up really well. I was testing it out today after being reminded of it’s existence via Digg. It’s pretty cool, and only half done. I can’t wait to see it once it’s finished.

  • Miss Universe 2006

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    This post is all in Japanese this time. 今日ミス ユーニバスというビューティ パーゲント行われた。今度のMiss Japan （知花くらら）がめっちゃ美人です。 結果はMiss Puerto Rico（Zuleyka Rivera)が勝って、二番目が知花さんでした。日本の方がもっときれいで、頭よくて（スペイン語、フランス語，英語も話せる）、ドレスも素敵だと思い ます。 何点でPuerto Ricoが勝ったか分からない。（＞＿＜） でわ春菜からのバトン行きます。英語の言葉使います！ 【Ｑ１】自転車のことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Bike 【Ｑ２】マクドナルドのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ McDonalds (also sometimes Micky Ds) 【Ｑ３】パソコンのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Laptop, PC 【Ｑ４】お父さんのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Papa 【Ｑ５】お母さんのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Mama 【Ｑ６】合同コンパのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ ごこん。。。 【Ｑ７】セブンイレブンのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ (The) Seven Eleven 【Ｑ８】ファミリーマートのことを何と呼ぶ？ Ａ＞ Family Mart 【Ｑ９】自分しか使わないであろう、呼び方を教えてください Ａ＞…

  • Sukiyaki

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    Today I went to the mall for lunch because I can only stand Subway for so long.  The mall in Carolina had a Little Tokyo restaurant in it.  The signs showed a really good looking Chicken Katsu and Sukiyaki combo, but when I went to order all they had was Chicken Teriyaki and other staple…

  • A Japanese update

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    Well, since I’ve finally found some free time I’ve decided to post some results (of one of those personality tests) that I stumbled upon when I was reading Haruna’s blog. You can take it at Love type check! Here are my results: Apollon(アポロン)　英語名：Apollo(アポロ) です。 ■神話 太陽神として知られる、音楽と医療の神。 神話の中では明るく陽気な性格で竪琴を奏でる色男として登場します。 神々の中でも2枚目として通っていた彼ですが、女性には振られまくっています。 美形でも軽い男は女性には好かれないようです。 ■性質 あなたは愛想がよく、女性男性問わずに周りから好かれるタイプ しかも失敗を恐れずにいろいろなことにもチャレンジします。 大きなことにチャレンジして、一発当てることができるのもアポロンの特徴です。 楽天的なところがあるので、あまり沈みこまないところも良いところです。 いつも明るいおかげで、周りも明るくなり、みんな安心してあなたと付き合うことができます。…

  • Moving complete

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    I’ve moved my website onto a new server.  This one is using VMware instead of User-Mode Linux.  The initial advantages are that I have control over my kernel.  Now to see if the LiveJournal plugin is working.

  • Compliments

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    It’s no secret that people compliment your misrable attempts to speak their language all the time. Usually these compliments are straight forward, like “お上手ですね” (“Your Japanese is really good!”), which usually means more like “Hang in there!”. There’s also the surprise comment where you are better at their language than they expected these are usually…