totes.l.croosh

i write words of code and try to get machines to dance. i am a tumblr of the old school (http://project.ioni.st since 2005 babeh!)

Let's focus on international cats

In Chinese, miāo (喵)
In Danish, mjau
In English, meow, miaow (UK), or mew
In French, miaou
In Japanese, nya (にゃあ)
In Russian, myau
In LOL, o hai

Language has often been called a weapon, and people should be mindful about where to aim it and when to fire. The common denominator of taboo words is the act of forcing a disagreeable thought on someone,” he writes. “Even in its mildest form, intended only to keep the listener’s attention, the lazy use of profanity can feel like a series of jabs in the ribs. They are annoying to the listener, and a confession by the speaker that he can think of no other way to make his words worth attending to. It’s all the more damning for writers, who have the luxury of choosing their words off-line from the half-million-word phantasmagoria of the English lexicon.

— Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, New York: Viking, 2007, p. 369.

Apr
19th

Sat

yourmonkeycalled:

LOOK UPON MY OUT OF PRINT MURAKAMI TRANSLATION, YE NERDS, AND DESPAIR

Apr
15th

Tue

Most awesome product shout-outs in hip-hop?

From the Lupe Fiasco song “Gold Watch”:

“I like Diptyque candles and Maharishi sandals
And Dita sunglasses and purple
murder service samples
I like False t-shirts
Devil Street is off the handle
Such a good designer Junya Watanabe god damn you
I like Yohji Yamamoto and a Max Roach solo
Leather Gucci belts and Guilty Brotherhood polos
I like Mont Blanc pens and Moleskine paper
I like Goyard bags and green Now-n-Laters
Monocle magazines and Japanese manga
Futura Nosferatu and HTM trainers
I love Street Fighter 2 I just really hate Zangief
only Ken and Ryu I find it hard to beat Blanca
I keep a wii ninja hanging and a
Unkle album banging
If you negative in energy then stay out the vicinity of…”

Apr
12th

Sat

Moving towards the inevitable: Brandon Morse