By kevin | Published: March 24, 2011
Someone made me aware of a pact that the user futurianus made here: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25814&PN=1 It has to do with a few guidelines you can follow to stay motivated and learn effectively. It is written with Chinese in mind, but it applies to any language. Without further ado, here it is:
By kevin | Published: March 9, 2011
Those of you in countries where you actually have to fill out your own income tax return will appreciate this haiku. Like glass in the sand Strike two words, spiting your time “Standard deduction” So much for all those records you kept, eh? At least business expenses still take a nice chunk out of that [...]
By kevin | Published: March 5, 2011
(Since this post has been a draft in my blog box for nearly a month, I decided to break it into several parts and blog little by little. Hope you’ll like the approach) A recent mistweeet by yours truly led to a suggestion that I write a blog post so that you don’t have to [...]
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By kevin | Published: March 5, 2011
This is one from yours truly, but I think it would make an awesome dictionary word. I think I was trying to say “sweet” and “sleek” at the same time. Sweek came out. I think it’s a pretty sweek word. Merriam-Webster, are you reading? Word candidate right here. Incidentally, Urban Dictionary seems to have a [...]
By kevin | Published: March 2, 2011
*yawn* Bad sleep patterns are The sun rising in the north And then in the east Before this becomes true for me…good night! (P.S. I still owe you guys a post about how to learn specific terms for things like social media, basically walking you through what I would do. I’ve got it as a [...]
By kevin | Published: February 22, 2011
The, “Oh yeah, it was Tuesday yesterday,” gag may be getting old, but I’m continuing it one more week! As the sun touches The earth, so touches my pen pa…wait, what’s today?
By kevin | Published: February 22, 2011
This one was so awesome that it needed to be preserved on the blog itself: “Your manlihood is on steak.” Note that I’m transcribing it this way, but it was spoken, so I’m embellishing a bit to make it funnier All the guys reading this are probably one part laughing, one part cringing. But one [...]
By kevin | Published: February 21, 2011
There used to be a longer impromptu blog post here. Here’s a summary! My Spanish comprehension is better than my ability to start speaking from a cold start now. This is different from before. I’m still fluent. I think it’s because I’m in L.A., where I hear it more and speak it relatively more. I [...]
By kevin | Published: February 16, 2011
From hibernation Come bears sooner than Haiku Tuesday. Late again. Want to share your own haiku about Haiku Tuesday being late? The comments are always open to you! If you want to have your haiku featured AS Haiku Tuesday, please get in touch.
By kevin | Published: February 12, 2011
I dag lærer jeg dere om ordet “ikkenokhet.” Dette var et svakt prøv å si “scarcity” på norsk. Det var antakeligvis logisk, men minst en nordmann bare ikke forstod hva ble ment. I det hele tatt. Derfor kan jeg sannsynligvis ikke nominere dette som nytt ord. Eller? Gi meningen din i kommentarene!
