More cheesy jazz song titles from Sirius Radio : Joe Mooney “Do You Long for Oolong?”
Or how about depth of meaning in “I am happy as a little boy / Who just got a choo-choo toy”?
Little Bit
This Saturday went to a friend’s wedding. Master of ceremonies said the following : “Мы вÑе тут little bit розмовлÑємо українькою мовою”.
Reading Signs
Joel sez: users don’t read anything. That’s true. But sometimes they’ll still get some use of the instructions in one way or another.
I wonder what the code under the letters “WET” refers to….. Oooh, I know! It’s one of those “markers and signs [that] are part of a civil disturbance control plan that will implement Emergency Executive Orders #11002 and #11004 to process, control and relocate “dissenters” to detention camps, and prisons during a National Emergency. “
Meaning of “Meaning”
When I first learned about SATs I thought it was a very stupid test. I was very pissed off, of course, about the verbal section. I felt that I was penalized for not being a native speaker of English. Besides, the whole concept seemed silly to me — I encountered very few Russian words that I didn’t know the meaning of in my daily reading. I thought that I could not acieve the perfect score only because I did not know English well enough.
Now I realize how little I knew about meaning of words back then, and how little I know now. I used many words just because they sounded cool, without thinking about meaning. Sometimes I made up my own meaning for words based on auditory associations.
For instance, let’s take words “tactic” and “strategy”. I thought that they were synonyms. I encountered the word “tactical” in descriptions of many items. I always thought that it was just a military buzzword. Tactical nuclear weapon and strategic bomber. Tactical holster. Even a bag can be tactical.
Well, today I learned that there is a difference. “Tactics” are short term plans, and “strategies” are long term. When you bomb enemy on the battlefield – that’s tactical bombing (the tanks and soldiers are there now). When you bomb factories, airfields and general population of the enemy – that’s strategic bombing (they are not involved in fighting now, but they will get involved in the future).
Timeframe involved doesn’t really matter. Strategy and tactics are defined relative to each other. For instance, take look at this cartoon :
Topato Potato is giving Wigu strategic advice, and Wigu is making tactical decisions. When he strays from the strategy outlined by Topato, he gets into trouble.
Tactical bag? That’s just a buzzword, methinks.
And meaning of “mean�ing”? It’s right here.
Talking Heads
I work in the Newscorp building. Fox News studios are located on the first floor and have windows. It’s kind of eerie seeing “talking heads” live on the way home.
That’s Shepard Smith, I think. I tried taking pictures from two different windows. The windows are tinted.
Gotta catch them all
Bodega Kiddie Ride
A kiddy ride near a bodega on Ave U. Colours were not altered or anything.
Hellhole
This is an entrance to a building on Ave U. The neighborhood is very good there; it’s definitely not a slum. If I were evil overlord the super of that building would be sent to Siberia.
Freud would have a field day with this
About debugging
A wrong assumption that most people make when debugging: a bug has a higher probability of hiding in complex and esoteric places. This may be true about roaches — they are more likely to be found in hard to reach places, but not about code. Code bugs are not afraid of light — they are just as likely to be in plain view.