Gord: Good morning! Class: Good morning! Gord: How are you? Class: Fine, thank you, and you? Gord: I’m good. It’s a nice day! One Student: Yes, it is! It’s a warm! Gord: Yes, it’s warm. Hey, everybody! Look out the window. Class: (looking out the window) Gord: Do you know what those flowers are called? Another Student: The butt flower? Heh heh. Class: (laughs) Gord: (gesturing at his butt) The butt flower? No, no. It’s called a cherry flower. Class (scatteredly): Cher-ry flower. Gord: Those flowers are beautiful, aren’t they? Majority of the Class: Yes! One Student: No! It’s ugly. …
Month: April 2005
More Quasi-Propaganda
Marvin linked to the Kingdom Of Heaven movie trailer and this is what I have to say: How unsurprising, a movie about the Crusades. How completely predictable. You know, it’s interesting seeing this show up on the big screen while reading Edward Said’s Orientalism for the first time. Say what you will about the guy, but he did kind of have a point about how entertainment, scholarship, and imperial interests intersect. It sure goes a long way to confirming arguments that America on some level sees its relationship with the Middle East through the lens of the Crusades—a lens constructed …
Dixie? eh?
This is just a silly quiz I saw over at Adam’s blog, but I was curious. I REALLY don’t get the results: Your Linguistic Profile: 60% General American English 15% Yankee 10% Dixie 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Yeah, I really don’t get that. See, I just speak Prairie Canadian English. Maybe my friends in Texas (and my Alabaman friend here in Korea) have had some effect one me? Hmmm.
VR Game Dream Career Storyline Ideas
It’s mine! It’s mine this week! And boy is it long-winded: You’ve been approached by VR-Box, a new home entertainment system startup, for the creation of five new videogames for their home system. They’re reviewing submissions from several different people, and their offer is that, whoever submits the most 5 ideas deemed most interesting and most profitable, gets a position with them simply hanging around thinking up ideas for video games for some collossal amount of money. The system is an immersive, virtual reality game. People playing will know they’re playing, they won’t be at any special risk physically or …
Foreign Lands
I’m a thief. Yes, I am stealing an idea from Jodi’s Sex Bombs entry (though Asia Pages has moved to here, and you should update your links and go check it out). This post has a soundtrack. Open another window, or a tab in Mozilla, and then open this link. Then come back and read this. Or, watch the video, then restart the song. It’s a good video, vaguely environmentalist but also just compelling in itself. Okay… go do it. . . . . Right, you’ve back now, and you can hear that sweet music, the sound of the voices …