"We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." - Aristoteles
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristoteles
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Monday, December 14, 2009
e.g. i.e.
i.e. means "that is." from the origin is "id est."
e.g. means "for example." from the origin "exempli gratia."
In American English, generally follow i.e. and e.g. with a comma.
Random: Roman Numerals has no representation for zero, since they could not see the logic in counting things that you do not have. That might be why Arabians (with a Arabian number system that include a representation for zero) are stereotyped as rich and greedy, rather than Romans...
per se: another commonly misspelled Latin phrase used in English arguments for "by itself" or "by themselves".
e.g. means "for example." from the origin "exempli gratia."
In American English, generally follow i.e. and e.g. with a comma.
Random: Roman Numerals has no representation for zero, since they could not see the logic in counting things that you do not have. That might be why Arabians (with a Arabian number system that include a representation for zero) are stereotyped as rich and greedy, rather than Romans...
per se: another commonly misspelled Latin phrase used in English arguments for "by itself" or "by themselves".
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Handige jargon
kludge - 'n morsige, swak-gestruktureerde, aanmekaargelapte oplossing.
cruft - tegniese rommel. Waarskynlik vanaf studente se verwysings na die naam van 'n laboratorium by Harvard universiteit waarbuite ou masjienerie wat in onbaarbruik verval, gestoor is, tydens die Tweede Wereldoorlog.
cruft - tegniese rommel. Waarskynlik vanaf studente se verwysings na die naam van 'n laboratorium by Harvard universiteit waarbuite ou masjienerie wat in onbaarbruik verval, gestoor is, tydens die Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Educational Puns
Creative Puns for "Educated Minds"
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
8 A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway.
One hat said to the other, "You stay here; I'll go on a head."
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.
Then it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said:
"Keep off the Grass."
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, "No change yet."
17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
19. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
21. A backward poet writes inverse.
22. In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
23. She was only the meteorologist's daughter, but you could look in her eyes and tell weather........!
24. Don't join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
8 A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway.
One hat said to the other, "You stay here; I'll go on a head."
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.
Then it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said:
"Keep off the Grass."
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, "No change yet."
17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
19. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
21. A backward poet writes inverse.
22. In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
23. She was only the meteorologist's daughter, but you could look in her eyes and tell weather........!
24. Don't join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects
Monday, September 7, 2009
Teddiebeer
Ek het my teddiebeer buite vergeet.
Die honde het my teddiebeer
aan flarde geskeur.
En nou sien ek jou vir wat jy werklik is:
Meng jou met die semels,
dan vreet die varke jou op.
Die honde het my teddiebeer
aan flarde geskeur.
En nou sien ek jou vir wat jy werklik is:
Meng jou met die semels,
dan vreet die varke jou op.
Opstellerige ding oor hoe moeilik eenvoudige goed soos stilte is om te verstaan
"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy." - Mark Twain
Stilte.
Vir jou
is dit net 'n gebrek aan woorde
ongemaklik
hoogmoedig.
(Per definisie is wat hier volg, dinge wat nie gesê behoort te word nie. Maar aangesien jy elke keer begin babbel wanneer ek dit stylgetrou aan jou probeer meedeel, noodsaak jy my om dit vir jou uit te spel - ek besluit nog of die pun intended is.)
Ek het vanaand 'n konsert gaan kyk. 'n Ongelooflike mooi konsert. (Die feit dat ek amper laat was en toe my vooraf-glas wyn moes down om op te maak vir verlore tyd het dalk bygedra tot my persepsie van die konsert, maar dit sou daarsonder nogsteeds 'n ongelooflike konsert gewees het.) En - vreemd genoeg - het ek gewens dat jy dit saam met my kon gaan kyk. Ek wens jy sou lank genoeg kon stilbly... Want dis die enigste taal wat regtig kan verduidelik... En daarom is hierdie nou 'n baie mooi paradoks, maar nou ja.
Ek wens ek kon vir jou verduidelik hoe party dinge is soos om op sestien swanger te raak - dit was nou obviously nie deel van jou oorspronklike, ideale toekomsplanne nie, maar dis regtig ook nie die einde van die wêreld nie, as a matter of fact: dis die begin van die wêreld vir iemand. (Okay, random, ek weet. Ek het ook twee aande gelede Juno gekyk. Verstaan? Ek sing nogsteeds die soundtrack. Awesome soundtrack. Pitchless, maar awesome.)
En ek wens ek kon vir jou verduidelik dat jy die enigste een is wat dink jy is minderwaardig of watookal jy dit in jou kop noem. En dat niemand met jou stry nie, net omdat dit 'n bietjie voor-op-die-wa voel om met jou te stry oor jouself - vryheid (en jy weet dis vir my heilig) van uitdrukking bepaal tog dat jý in daai domein die deciding vote het. Maar net as jy gewonder het: nee, maak nie saak hoe judgemental jy is nie (en ek behoort te weet?) niemand skat 'n persoon se waarde op sy CV nie. Werkgewers skat dalk werkernemers so, maar niemand oordeel iemand so nie.
En dit alles is hartseer. Want jy is rêrig eintlik awesome - net jammer jy wil dit nie glo nie.
...en jy praat so baie.
So, ek wens ek kon langer bly, but I've overstayed my welcome.
So hier is wat ek die afgelope twee bladsye lank van jou af moes wegneem, net sodat ek dit nou as 'n geskenk aan jou kan teruggee (slim scheme, al moet ek dit nou self sê, mhuhaha).
Vergesel deur my diepste wens dat jy dit eendag sal hoor sing en sal verstaan,
Vir jou:
Stilte.
Stilte.
Vir jou
is dit net 'n gebrek aan woorde
ongemaklik
hoogmoedig.
(Per definisie is wat hier volg, dinge wat nie gesê behoort te word nie. Maar aangesien jy elke keer begin babbel wanneer ek dit stylgetrou aan jou probeer meedeel, noodsaak jy my om dit vir jou uit te spel - ek besluit nog of die pun intended is.)
Ek het vanaand 'n konsert gaan kyk. 'n Ongelooflike mooi konsert. (Die feit dat ek amper laat was en toe my vooraf-glas wyn moes down om op te maak vir verlore tyd het dalk bygedra tot my persepsie van die konsert, maar dit sou daarsonder nogsteeds 'n ongelooflike konsert gewees het.) En - vreemd genoeg - het ek gewens dat jy dit saam met my kon gaan kyk. Ek wens jy sou lank genoeg kon stilbly... Want dis die enigste taal wat regtig kan verduidelik... En daarom is hierdie nou 'n baie mooi paradoks, maar nou ja.
Ek wens ek kon vir jou verduidelik hoe party dinge is soos om op sestien swanger te raak - dit was nou obviously nie deel van jou oorspronklike, ideale toekomsplanne nie, maar dis regtig ook nie die einde van die wêreld nie, as a matter of fact: dis die begin van die wêreld vir iemand. (Okay, random, ek weet. Ek het ook twee aande gelede Juno gekyk. Verstaan? Ek sing nogsteeds die soundtrack. Awesome soundtrack. Pitchless, maar awesome.)
En ek wens ek kon vir jou verduidelik dat jy die enigste een is wat dink jy is minderwaardig of watookal jy dit in jou kop noem. En dat niemand met jou stry nie, net omdat dit 'n bietjie voor-op-die-wa voel om met jou te stry oor jouself - vryheid (en jy weet dis vir my heilig) van uitdrukking bepaal tog dat jý in daai domein die deciding vote het. Maar net as jy gewonder het: nee, maak nie saak hoe judgemental jy is nie (en ek behoort te weet?) niemand skat 'n persoon se waarde op sy CV nie. Werkgewers skat dalk werkernemers so, maar niemand oordeel iemand so nie.
En dit alles is hartseer. Want jy is rêrig eintlik awesome - net jammer jy wil dit nie glo nie.
...en jy praat so baie.
So, ek wens ek kon langer bly, but I've overstayed my welcome.
So hier is wat ek die afgelope twee bladsye lank van jou af moes wegneem, net sodat ek dit nou as 'n geskenk aan jou kan teruggee (slim scheme, al moet ek dit nou self sê, mhuhaha).
Vergesel deur my diepste wens dat jy dit eendag sal hoor sing en sal verstaan,
Vir jou:
Stilte.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
My two absolute favourite quotes (except for the fact that nothing is absolute of course)
"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein
//note now Einstein nearly lets complexity be equal to violence...
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci
//note now Einstein nearly lets complexity be equal to violence...
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci
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