Timely Snow

Courtesy of Oneaday. “A pleasant change of atmosphere” or “a completely new impression” [literally: ear eye one new]. Nice idea—new eyes and ears.

One of the things that Ann Arbor and Northampton, MA (where my daughter is in school, when she’s not playing hooky in Germany) is the proliferation of bumper stickers, far more than anywhere else I’ve ever lived. Yesterday I saw a new one—“Childhood is a journey not a race.”

Last night I watched a pretty forgetable movie, Point of No Return, on T.V. using the “on demand” feature of our cable TV service

“At a time when the U.S. military is stretched thin, it may make sense to declare war against a fictitious enemy.”

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I’m pretty sure my daughter would immediately recognize this image.

Boing Boing: Pirate mariachis in Mexico City: truth or myth?

I don’t know, both the concept of Pirate Mariachis and the evil Mariachi Union seem inherently funny.

What countries are named after people?

The Name of the Rat – New York Times
It is a touchy use of the word “discovered” when a rodent that Laotians routinely eat is purchased at a market and then declared to be a new species. Just think of the debate over saying America was discovered by a European who stumbled over it 12,000 [...]

Berra, 80, Transcends the Test of Time – New York Times.

Happy Birthday to Yogi Berra, who’s probably best known now for a long list of zen-link malapropisms, including the title of this note. One I’ve always found to be good advice is: “When you come to the fork in the road, take it!”

Chinese has many homophones, which allows for some nice slogans, like this one for Intel’s Centrino chips—without wires you have no limits, taking advantage of the fact that 无线 (wireless) and 无限 (limitless) are homophones.

I was remind of this looking at John Pasden’s discussion of eBay’s new Chinese ads—Sinosplice | Archives | eBay and Wordplay

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