User-Names
Found In the Trash at a gas station while tanking up
but on the bright side I found another weird user name. ( in addition to the ones in spam comments:Tuan Mcclurkan and Ardell Papka.
Funny
Always on the look out for creative unbelievable monikers!
From an article in the National Examiner on the names of small donors to the Obama presidential campaign. They were obviously made up to get around campaign finance laws limiting donations. These names include: * Doodad Pro * Derty Poiiuy * Jgtj Jfggjjfgj * Good Will Read more…
Google OCR Experiment
This is an experiment to see if google will perform optical character recognition on the file. They are written in Japanese. I hope to be able to recover an html version after google indexes them. E5M_INST-Communications-Protocol E5M-TM_-TS-Manual OCR and support for Japanese OCR Online Japanese OCR Tool Tesseract OCR readme Read more…
Chinese-Characters
Online Chinese Character learning tool
夕 Pictograph of a crescent moon. – Evening, Dusk
Chinese-Characters
Chinese Body Parts
Chinese Character learning tool online 心 heart 肺 lung Notice character for lung has same first component as leg series below. How fast you can leg it is highly dependent on how much lung you have. 头 head 耳 ear é¼» nose é¼»å” nostril Read more…
Chinese-Characters
Chinese Single Double Triple Quadruple
å• Single – different than the number 1 åŒ Pairs – different than the number 2 – looks like 2 people walking side by side 三 triple = three – degenerates to the number å›› quadruple = four – degenerates to the number
Chinese-Characters
Email Chinese
Emails have some very common parameters and thus studying the chinese used in them has some advantage. å¹´ – Year 月 – Month 周 –week æ—¥ – Day 星期一 Monday – Star Period One 周二 Tuesday – Week two … meaning day of the week number 2. Translator gives Read more…
Chinese-Characters
Fun with Chinese Characters
TaoBao is a chinese ebay like website. They have on their front page a list of categories. I am using it to learn chinese characters. I am recording what I do here on my 电脑 ( electric brain aka computer ) 电 – electric è„‘ – brain
Antique-Slang
Hard times – Jacking off the dog to feed the cat
Since we are in the depression of 2008 it is time to recycle a phrase used during the great depression of the 1930's. When people are really stretched financially they are said to be doing the following: Jack off the dog to feed the cat
Language
I do not give a hoot
Arroto is the portuguese word for burp. It is pronounce more or less like A HOOT. This explains the phrase " I do not give a hoot " ….you are saying " I do not give a burp ". Which in some societies is given as an aprobation of a meal.