posts from 2015 / 06 / 01

1. @grantstavely where ‘most’ really means one-I-just-read that re-fatigued me on the whole “a-native-san-franciscan” ship of theseus thing

2. To read most bay area housing reporting, there is a pretty uncool unsaid birthright zero sum game, w/ irrational disregard for externalities

3. 1st year French: Bonjour, je m’appele Dane. J’habite au Texas!
   translation: Hello, my name is Dane. I live in Texas!
   1st year Latin: Gaius se in altum cum audacia eiecit. Nam vitam servare consulis conabatur, magnam arbitrans se gloriam capturum esse. Quod post factum fortissimum misere periit.
   translation: Gaius expelled himself into the depths of the sea with great audacity. For he was trying to save a life of a consul, judging that he himself would capture great glory. After this bravest deed he died miserably.

   June 1st, 2015 7:22am

4. 

   danforth:

   corseque:

   tehlibrarylife:

   I wouldn’t have known what this was if diebrarian hadn’t tagged it.

   This is how you wave your hand/conductor’s baton to lead the song if you’re a music conductor. You make different movements depending on the time signature of the song. (wiki article) (youtube example)

   I learned how to do this when I played Schroeder in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown in community theater and I had to conduct the rest of the cast. 

   June 1st, 2015 7:19am

5. RT @swirlOsquirrel: Mac prod launch: 7 men,
   4 women. None of the women are in Jobs movie. They’re not even cast. Every man is in the film w…

6. RT @shrekpissslave: [wife opens grocery list and realizes it’s my rap battle lyrics] oh no
   [me to some teens in parking lot] eggs and bacon…