Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Caviar, Bread, and stuff

Recently, I was talking about languages to a freind of mine. She said that she could accosiate most languages with a food, judjing by its characteristics. She said that she would accosiate Italian with spaghetti because they were both very easy to get used to. She also said that she would accosiate French with caviar. "Because French, like caviar, is hard to get used to, and has an acquired taste.", she said.
Today I made bread. Anyone who has made their own bread will know what I mean when I say that if you haven't made homemade bread and eaten it, you are really missing out on something.
In other matters, today I found out that Anika, my name, is another name for the Hindu Goddess Durga. Which is funny, because I know bits and pieces of tamil, which is a language originating from India, where Hinduism originated, too.
SMELLY SOCKS
Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
--
Leszczynski Stanislaus

Friday, June 11, 2010

Lorem Ipsum

Today I researched on Lorem Ipsum.
According to lipsum.com, Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
Here is a sample of it:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce consectetur rutrum risus ut fermentum. Curabitur luctus felis vitae massa iaculis lobortis iaculis non justo. Aliquam faucibus, libero et lacinia laoreet, turpis mi feugiat nibh, vitae eleifend lacus mauris ac nibh. Cras placerat pharetra ipsum. Aliquam sed dolor sed felis consectetur scelerisque. Nunc odio odio, faucibus id ornare eu, sagittis id odio. Ut consequat, felis id feugiat vestibulum, elit dolor posuere urna, quis molestie magna lorem sed lorem. Donec mattis ante eget purus aliquam in sodales est mollis. Aenean ultrices turpis ut arcu sodales ut rutrum arcu aliquam. In tellus ligula, laoreet ac fringilla in, viverra sit amet mauris. Aenean convallis varius odio, ac dapibus nisl mattis sit amet. In mi erat, auctor ornare pretium scelerisque, commodo at dolor. Sed ut odio ut leo posuere hendrerit elementum ac nunc. Nunc ullamcorper congue ipsum, vel rutrum ipsum pretium a. Maecenas id nibh justo, nec tincidunt urna.
I did not get one word of it, but the translation service gave me this:
Curabitur lamentation lucky life massa a thrower lobortis a thrower not equity. Some faucibus , to set free and lacinia laoreet , unseemly mi feugiat nibh , life eleifend a hollow mauris and nibh. Tomorrow to please a quiver itself. Some but pain but lucky consectetur crime. Now to hate to hate faucibus this ornare good sagittis this to hate. When according to reason , lucky this feugiat vestibulum elit pain to lay urna , anyone annoyance magna lorem but lorem. Up to the time when mattis before eget spotless some upon fellowship is soft. Eneus avenging unseemly when bow fellowship when rutrum bow some. Upon region ligula laoreet and fringilla upon viverra he is amet mauris. Eneus to grow strong various to hate , and seneschal nisl mattis he is amet. Upon mi was , person responsible ornare price crime , to make fit but pain. But when to hate when lion to lay hendrerit first principle and now. Now ullamcorper to congeal itself , or rutrum itself price a. Maecenas this nibh equity , and not tincidunt urna.
It makes absolutely no sense.
SMELLY SOCKS
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come
unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
--
Bacon

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Chat Speak

Today I decided to think about chat speak.
I HATE chat speak.
I mean, why on Earth would anybody want to emit that single letter that fits between the w and the a in what?
Why?
WHY?
WHY?
Crazy, I know. But the funny thing is that whenever I tell someone that, they utterly disrespect my feelings by writing
y do u thnk so?
on a piece of paper and give it to me.
When I rule the world, I will banish chat speak for good. For the purpose of explanation, I will arrest chat speakers.
Until then,
*sigh*
I will peacefully inhabit this humble abode of mine.
SMELLY SOCKS
"To be or not to be, that is the question"
--
William Shakespeare

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

PiE - A poem by Anika Creek

"Crust."
"Filling."
"Topping!"
"Flour!"
"Apples."
"Bananas!"
"Lime?"
"Too sour."

"Yeast?"
"A tad."
"Oven?"
"Yeah!"
"Done yet?"
"Of course not!"
"Now?"
"You bet."

"Wait!"
"What now?"
"Too hot."
"Aw man!"
"Flip it
 and turn it
 right outta
 the pan."

"Now, I will
 taste it
 and gulp it
 all down.
 Get outta
 my kitchen.
 Quit wearing
 that frown."

"Mmmmm... Scrumptididdlyumtious!"
--
A.C.

Ze French iz alvayz better zen ze anglais.

Aujourd'hui, j'ai décidé que j'allais écrire un post tout en français. Et croyez-moi, ce n'est pas facile. Si vous n'avez pas compris ce que vous venez de lire, alors, eh bien, tant pis pour vous! Et si vous avez le sens commun à gauche, vous irez à Google Translate et voyons ce qu'il dit.


Jusque-là,
Ta Ta!