Mark is trolling for Spanish curse words. If you have any
jucy ones,
let him know. Boy do I wish that I had a weblog back when
I was in high school and could have asked that question.
Meanwhile, this question has triggered a number of things...
I vividly remember seeing my Spanish professor becoming visibly shaken
after someone innocently shouted out "¡Huevos!" in class.
Seems there is a passing resemblance between eggs and a portion of
the male anatomy.
The idiom starting with "Hijo de..." (in English, this
translates to "son of a...") has fascinated me for some time.
While there is a corresponding idiom in English, the Spanish
version refers to someone who, shall we say, operates for
profit. Clearly there was some co-evolution involved.
Which in turn reminds me both of Stephen Jay Gould and
Douglas R. Hofstadter, who were cousin-in-laws. Which reminds
that I need to get back to reading
that
book which is excellent so far but a bit too heavy for
travel. Controlling the layout and format, not just the
content, but I digress.
Popping back up the stack a bit, I'm reminded of of the time
when my son was gestating and chose to deliver a swift kick to my
wife's ribs from the inside. She let out with the
utterence mentioned above, in English of course. Relishing
the ambiguity of the statement, I simply responded (with a wide
grin on my face): "yes.".
To which she hopefully responded with a swift kick to your ribs....
The scary thing is that high school students will search Google for "spanish curse words", and they'll find my page. At least they should; it's in my title, and a header tag, and the body. And it really is a highly relevant search result. And all the other results are crap.
just wonderfully amazing. mark pilgrim asks "Teach me Spanish curse words". i wasn't amazed so much by the post as by the responses. just completely excellent. i've never seen a better proof that information is alive. ask the right question and...
I'm looking for your insights into programming, not how your freakin travel
plans are working out. Granted it's your right to post whatever you want -
I'm certainly not trying to tell you what to post. But I suspect that if you
want to keep your readers you'll cut back on the crap about your personal
life. I suggest you take a lesson from Chris Brumme - that is truly a
worthwhile blog. Just an FYI.
Amusingly, Chris Brumme's only post in the past 3 weeks was an apology for not blogging more during his vacation in Maui. I am not in any way making this up.
Perhaps the name of the person who wrote that note isn't real anyway, but out of curiosity I looked up his name and up popped quite a bit about an American philosopher by the name of Saul Kripke. See http://goinside.com/01/2/kripke.html where he's described as one of the greatest thinkers in modern philosophy and highly admired as a living legend. His comments are a bit baffling since most folks would know that weblogs typically mix a bit of personal life with the major topics of the weblog. Plus, people aren't obligated to read every single post anyway. Curious...
"Don't attribute to malice that which can adequately explained through heat".[1]. At least in the South of Europe it is so hot that my brain is melting, and I'm sure that other people's is too. Don't know around there.
It occurs to me, in regards to Chris Brumme's post referenced by Mark, maybe we're not to going to know the true impact of technologies like blogging until it's become a LOT more mainstream - in other words, until it's being widely used by type of people for whom not blogging during a vacation in Hawaii (even given available connectivity!) would seem so obvious that it wouldn't even be worth mentioning.
I don't think Saul understands the blogosphere. The point is that we all have our own interest and as we connect to each other (subscribe to each others RSS feeds), we get the good and the noise (I originally called this the bad, but thought noise...
At the same time, the tech world doesn't operate in a vacuum. Technology comes out of various social, political, and economic contexts, and one of the coolest things about blogs is that they help to reveal some of these often hidden contexts. ...
UUIDs in Python. In defense of Fahrner Image Replacement. That famous quote from Jorge Luis Borges. New writing from Leslie, Michael, Michael, stavros, and JD....
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