fic, meme, wow, a padding post twice over! :)

Thanks to risa. Take 150 words of fic, and run it through babelfish forwards and backwards (literally, ie. english to foo and foo to english).( Read more... )

What's weirdest is the little islands of intellegibility. And that 'parneisval' vanaishes in the fourth paragraph. It's not made clearer by there being made up words in the original. For the record, parneisval is my fault, but wind-talk, while cool, is google's :)

Review - Bill and Ted

Hey, that's a pretty good film. It seems like it shouldn't be, but it's enjoyable. And in fact, the time travel is more imaginative in some ways than in many apparently serious films: there are some confusions (eg. why do they have a deadline? can't they spend a month studying then go back in time? is it a paradox because their music enabled the society which invented the time machine?) but the whole "when we get out of this, we'll come back in time and give ourselves the key" is pretty fun, and normally bypassed.

The fourth wall is broken only right at the end, when Rufus looks at the camera and says "They get better than that," though he could have been talking to himself.

It's curious, because in many ways, Bill and Ted should be the antithesis of people I know: they're reasonably nice, and appreciate music, and somewhat misfit, yes, but they're intellectually lazy and unrealistic and fasionable. Why do we like them? Is it the uninhibitedness?

Moral debate

Hmm, there seems to be too much debate today. gerald_duck, robert_jones, filecoreinuse. And even extended argument about grammar and ice-cream with feanelwa and ewx not-respectively[1].

I guess I'm putting something off :)

In other news: I expected everyone to criticise my phases of the moon, but they didn't. I can never predict what will set people off ;)

[1] Would you distinguish "non-respectively" meaning "not necessarily in the order listed" and "not-respectively" meaning "not in the order listed?" Why didn't I just change the order? Because then I couldn't have this amusing footnote :)

Washing my face

Your eyes are a bit tired, your face is crummy, you go to splash some water on it.

Hot water
Cold water
Both
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