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the little kombucha (侯詠絮)
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| Hi, my name is Bob and I'm a n00b |
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What the hell is p00n and how does it differ from pwn? There's a resemblance to n00b, except the first and last letters are changed. I have no way of determining if p00n is an alternative of n00b or it's the other way around.
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| Octopus escaping through a 1 inch hole |
[05 Dec 2006|06:33pm] |
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Octopuses have an amazing ability to squeeze through tiny crevices, cracks and holes. My fall BIOS independent studies student, Raymond Deckel is investigating just how small a hole Octopus macropus can fit through as well as how long it takes them to squeeze through different sizes of holes. CAABS intern Rowena Day, NSF-REU intern Jared Kibele as well as teaching assistant Abel Valdivia help wrangle the 232 g octopus, Ray times it’s escape through a 1 inch hole while I shot video clips for later analysis. Location: Whalebone Bay, St. George’s, Bermuda.
Dr. James B. Wood - BIOS
The Cephalopod Page
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[11 Sep 2006|09:45pm] |
Go read Five Years After 9/11: Drop the War Metaphor
George Lakoff is a linguistics professor at UC Berkeley. He works at the Rockridge Institute, a progressive think tank that aims to reframe the media-washed way we look at politics. I read his book, Metaphors We Live By, when I was still in college, although I never took his class. He was one of the first intellectuals to show me how language, particularly metaphors, structures reality. There is nothing more powerful than that. I've been intermittently following his works. He has a straightforward, lucid way of articulating politics from an angle most people overlook and he does it well.
Oh, there's virtually nothing about the other September 11th in the news today. I'm just sayin'.
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| And they keep eroding our rights. . . |
[25 Jul 2006|09:11pm] |
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 (AP)
Senate Passes Interstate Abortion Bill
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
(07-25) 16:50 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --
A bill that would make it a crime to take a pregnant girl across state
lines for an abortion without her parents' knowledge passed the Senate
Tuesday, but vast differences with the House version stood between the
measure and President Bush's desk. ( Read more... )
Source: SF Gate
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[25 Mar 2006|12:25pm] |
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Why would one still believe that ostriches hide their heads in sand?
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| oh, the irony! |
[15 Mar 2006|12:14pm] |
Hayes leaves 'bigoted' South Park
Singer Isaac Hayes is to stop providing the voice for a character in cartoon South Park because he objects to its "inappropriate ridicule" of religion.
Hayes, 63, who is the voice of the lustful Chef, has been a regular on the show since its US TV debut in 1997.
But co-creator Matt Stone said Hayes had "never had a problem" until the Scientology Church, to which Hayes belongs, was parodied.
The show was insensitive to "personal spiritual beliefs", said Hayes.
"There is a place in this world for satire but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs begins," he said. ( Read more... )
Source: BBC News: Entertainment
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[13 Feb 2006|04:14pm] |
If you have been following the news about the outrage over the Muhammad cartoons and thought of it as a matter of free speech, perhaps you may want to think twice after reading ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) slit's brilliant post in which she debunks misleading assumptions behind the story.
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[03 Nov 2005|04:52pm] |
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I'm thinking about putting up a size 4 pair of Built By Wendy jeans, rarely worn and never commercially dried, on E-bay. Would any of you be interested?
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[13 Oct 2005|12:36am] |
Watching South Park re-runs past my bedtime is the greatest thing in the world. I want to be snuggly warm sitting on a futon for one or two episodes of South Park as comedy therapy everyday. Family Guy, the Simpsons, and King of Hill are on my palette of favorite animated TV shows too.
In high school, I watched Beavis and Butt-head. This is a very little-known fact about me. If I came home from school early in the afternoon, as in before 4 o'clock, I'd turn on the Anime News Network for Pokémon. Where do you think my name "charmenders" came from? It's a slightly alteration of Charmander, a cute bald orange two-foot-tall lizard with a flaming tail.
I am a secret T.V. cartoons fiend at heart.
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| Rawr! |
[03 Oct 2005|01:48am] |
Why hasn't the U.S. Senate re-authorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) yet? Only in this country would the Senate negotiate for half a day and not reach a consensus, adjourning it until this following Wednesday. Speak of impending congressional failure to take action that would benefit more than hurt everyone. This is a key bill that covers the allocation of funds supporting many organizations and programs, dedicated to ending violence against women and providing them life-saving services and resources, and the umbrella term of "women" encompasses survivors of diverse backgrounds, including rural, older, immigrant, and disabled women. Yes, your mommy, your grandma, your sister, your aunt, your cousin, your friend, your classmate, your colleague, your neighbor, your factory worker, your nurse, your doctor, your maid, your laundry cleaner, your bus driver, your grocery bagger, your banker, your insurance agent, your post carrier, your teacher, your park ranger, your electrician, your stylist, your waiter, your chef, your farm worker...
Come on, people.
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[21 Sep 2005|10:48pm] |
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Living in the city is not easy.
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| happy moon festival! |
[19 Sep 2005|07:09pm] |
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I'm eating a mooncake and paying homage to my ancestors in silence, alone, to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Already did the moongazing and shared a hot soup of noodles this past Saturday night with my "big sister". A colleague from work brought them, homemade Taiwanese-style and filled with red bean paste, to the office this morning and they're delicious. They're little yummy round bean paste-filled pastries, once considered a Chinese delicacy but can be easily brought as baked goods in an endless array of flavors and styles from Asian bakeries. Very labor intensive and not cheap. They should be cut diagonally in quarters, passed around, and washed down with oolong or jasmine tea in the company of family and friends.
Most Westerners are familiar with the popular Hong Kong-style mooncakes here, but I personally never cared much for lotus seed paste and cannot get accustomed to it. I don't eat any other kind of filling, either, especially with nuts, and can pick out the red bean filling from the mooncakes box by identifying the characters imprinted on the surface of each mooncake. Dieters and persnickety, neurotic eaters, beware: one quarter of a traditional lotus seed mooncake, with lard, at least two egg yolks, sugar, sugar, and sugar, amounts to the fat and calorie density of a whole buttered cake. Nowadays, most mooncakes contain vegetable, coconut, or palm oil in lieu of lard and supposedly, more health-conscious Chinese people consume less mooncakes than they did in the past, focusing more on the gift-giving aspect. I find it personally insulting when someone has the audacity to compare mooncakes to fruitcakes.
So, mooncakes anyone?
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| "virilocal" |
[16 Sep 2005|01:28am] |
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I have a compulsive disease of reading. It cannot be cured, but the symptoms can be alleviated to a limited extent by means of self-imposed discipline and restrictions. But I get away gluttening my intellectual hunger pangs by raiding the bookcases.
My reading tastes are, in my book, diverse and occasionally errant. One day, I indulge myself in ruthlessly misogynistic and racist fiction (Michel Houellebecq's "The Elementary Particles" is an obvious example) and grit my teeth between pages. Another day, I dive for general academic discourses-- my latest fascination is feminist legal theory (Nancy K.D. Lemon's "Domestic Violence Law" is my bible), especially in the field of domestic violence.
When the latter happens, I find myself reaching for my standard pocket English language dictionary and flipping the pages to look up unfamiliar terms. Too often, to no avail, I cannot locate the definition for a word in question. This is usually due to the fact that my inquiries cannot be answered by a standard dictionary. Only academic references, or perhaps advanced English language dictionaries, like Oxford English Dictionary (OED), can satisfy.
I tear out my hair over this and debate what would be the most appropriate course of action to take: discard the incompetent dictionary, throw it against the wall until my roommates yell at me, sell it at a discounted price on E-bay or to an independent bookstore, donate it to the local neighborhood library, or give it to a friend who would benefit more than I. Then I debate whether to purchase the leather-bound 20 volume set OED, which is definitely out of my financial budget and will be for many years to come, take the painstaking and time-consuming task of adding the word in question to my list and save it for a trip to the library, or deconstruct it myself.
Tonight's word in question is: VIRILOCAL. Now, with my Latin education, I automatically recognize the prefix, "viri-" from virilis, -e,, as in vir, and infer that "virilocal" pertains to manlihood or masculinity in a particular context. Compound it with "local," which does not exactly function as a suffix per se since it functions as a word alone happily, and what does one get now? Masculinity in a particular place? How does it translate in the context of traditionally heterosexual marriages? I demand to know more. Taking the easy way out, I google "virilocal" until I find sufficient information to answer my question. Apparently, "virilocal" is an anthropological term.
virilocal: Residence of a married couple with the husband's kin (formerly called "patrilocal"). Residence rules can be further distinguished as viri-patrilocal (with the husband's father - patri-virilocal expresses the same pattern), viri-avunculocal (or avunculo-virilocal) - residence with the husband's maternal uncle.
Viri-avunculocal? Virilocal and avunculocal I can handle, but viri-avunculocal? Hot damn. Talk about compounding compounded words! I love how there are specific terms for specific practices of living. And I love comprehensive definitions. The one provided above wasn't very comprehensive, though.
All the more reason to contemplate getting the exclusive full set of the OED. Now where to get 6,000 USD is another matter to contemplate.
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