Friday Ephemeraren’t
Yes, another chance to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. But on the upside, you’re getting quite good at it. I’ll set the ball rolling with a chap who does this better than you do; an archive of poltergeist clattering and other “occult” recordings; a “desk companion” of note; two ladies, some silver paper and a dash of Dunning-Kruger; and a heartwarming illustration of overdue consequences.
Also, JavaScript, like all non-typed languages, is the tongue of the Devil.
Non-typed? But that hacker guy was typing the whole time!
Sadly, “Peking” was supposed to be pronounced closer to “Beijing” in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles
After working with it for a few weeks, I wrote on my whiteboard that Perl is the Devil’s flatus.
To what variant
The crazy variant. It’s like unnaturally-colored hair, multitudinous piercings, and epidermal ink: aposematism, aka warning coloration.
Just nod, smile, and back away slowly (a hand on one’s gun would likely be well advised).
Non-typed? But that hacker guy was typing the whole time!
Heh. Touché….As I, er…typed that it felt awkward. The phrase I think I was looking for was “not type-safe languages”. Or something. I dunno. It’s Friday and my brain is mush.
‘untyped’ or ‘dynamically typed’ is the usual formulation. JS is really ‘weakly typed’ or even ‘duck typed’
This.
And this.
Via.
Hell, we’ve got our own Yeti:
https://twitter.com/BostonYeti2015/status/949033131822153728
It’s hip(po) to be square!
What is the difference between “fatness” and “fat bodies”? Are they mayhap afraid that if fat bodies is not specified, people will think of them as “fatheads”?
“Ne” has now entered the lexicon of university sacred words.
The first column of their list is labelled ‘Normative (Subject)’. They meant ‘Nominative.’
Perhaps before they presumed to reform the language, they could get a basic understanding of it.
“Planetary bodies” perhaps.
The obsession with labeled “bodies” seems to be a panintersectional phenomenon. As in, every stripe of this sort of ass can’t seem to squeak a manifesto or denouncement out without at least one madlibbed “body” appearing.
The impression one gets is that they are all just meat that speaks, even from their own viewpoint.
No, please, don’t thank me.
John Stoltenberg, author of “Refusing to Be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice”
Boy, can he pick ’em…
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=andrea+dworkin&qpvt=andrea+dworkin&FORM=IARRSM
Non-typed? But that hacker guy was typing the whole time!
The Governor’s next drink is on my tab.
From Tim Newman’s blog:SOUTH Africa’s parliament has voted in favour of a motion that will begin the process of amending the country’s Constitution to allow for the confiscation of white-owned land without compensation.
Yeah, because that worked out so well for Zimbabwe!
From 30+ years as a coder – the imagined vs real programming is spot on, except 25 years ago we used a library of manuals rather than Stack Exchange.
From the above Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Brownie_0817/status/949035318791024640
The fellow in that GIF is Bryan Danielson, who wrestled under the nome de guerre of “Daniel Bryan” (I have to assume the WWE marketing staff were at an extended martini lunch that day).
Mr. Danielson is mostly famous for selecting a trademark phrase (“Yes! Yes! Yes!”) that it is not actually possible to trademark, since it’s a single common word repeated a random number of times.
Mr. Danielson unsuccessfully attempted to argue that also pointing into the air with both fingers made the phrase uniquely trademarkable, despite it being impossible to depict this in textual form.
It makes one long for the creative genius of a Terry Bollea or Mark Callaway.
Oh, my…
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/sex/chinas-condoms-are-too-small-says-zimbabwes-health-minister/news-story/0361918b79eee5500070bf28001f24b8
Now if [the physicists] say, “Well, look — we’re doing real science and you guys aren’t”, then that’s white male/sexist/bourgeois/whatever the answer is.”
I don’t know if this is a parody, but…
http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2015/02/10/we-honestly-have-no-fucking-idea-what-were-doing-admits-leading-quantum-physicist/
I don’t know if this is a parody, but…
Hmm? Other stories on that site being . . .
“I’m Fixing It” Zuckerberg Calmly Douses Facebook HQ In Petrol
and
Peasant Hunting At Davos Cancelled Due To Excessive Snow
and
Brexit Negotiations Progress Significantly As Boris Has Mouth Sewn Shut
and
Designer Reveals Jennifer Lawrence’s Dress Made Of 49.5% Feminism, 49.5% Patriarchy
. . . where This in turn drew opprobrium from mild mannered people who disagreed in ALL CAPS, is one of the comment in the latter . . .
Cultural appropriation?
Hey Darleen…been waiting for you to pop up here again… I think there’s something that, at least to my knowledge, only you can answer. I’ve seen your comments in a few places lately in addition to here and the old PW site, and also other places where your comments had references Patterico. There’s a guy who comments at Patterico that I had also seen years ago at PW, and on rare occasion at Ace, called happyfeet. Do you happen to know if he comments elsewhere? I greatly enjoy his sardonic-ish take on things but suspect/fear Patterico will ban him at some point. Plus I’m getting real tired of having to wade through P and his fellow traveller leftist’s shiite to read hf’s takes. As I am banned at P (under a couple aliases now…long stories) I cannot ask him directly so hoped maybe you might be able to direct me?
I used to enjoy happyfeet…but he became an annoying parody of himself and got decidedly mean on PW.
I don’t have much occasion to read at Patterico’s, but that seems to be the only place he posts fairly regularly.
Cultural appropriation?
Blimey. How does it…? I mean, is there a mechanism inside?
How do women get to the top? By being more like men, of course.
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/03/02/male-and-female-bosses-share-the-same-classically-masculine-personality-traits/#more-33385
The article then dutifully speculates that it’s society’s fault, but the real point has already been made.
This.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/969740243380285440
Cultural appropriation?
From the replies:
That’s why her hair is so big. It’s full of secrets.
Hah!
“Sadly, “Peking” was supposed to be pronounced closer to “Beijing” in the first place.”
Doesn’t matter. It changed. The extraneous “s” we put on to “Marseilles” in English used to be pronounced, but who does that today? Same with “Calais”, and of course we still do it with “Paris”. People who jokingly pronounce the “j” in “Majorca” are actually correct, according to standard English pronunciation until about half a century ago. The stress used to be on the middle syllable of “Monaco” (Stirling Moss still does this; old dogs and new tricks, etc.), but of course French puts equal stress on all syllables, so the modern pronunciation is no more “correct”.
I’m not against pronunciation changing; I’m against the legislation of language. And I’m especially against patronizingly bowing down to foreigners when they try to do it to us. As I started off, it’s not “respectful”; it’s deeply disrespectful of them, and disrespectful to ourselves. No English speaker ever pronounces “Tokyo” as two syllables: To-kyo. Due to the way our brains have been wired learning English as infants, we find “kyo” difficult to pronounce as one syllable. So in English, it’s three: To-ke-o. That’s just the way it is.
“The impression one gets is that they are all just meat that speaks, even from their own viewpoint.”
There’s always been an undercurrent of that on the Left, though. The idea that society is a machine in which The Workers are just cogs, and all that. That’s how each major strain of socialism in the 20th Century ended up with death camps. I’ve said it before: they keep banging on about The People, but they have real trouble with actual, living, breathing, thinking people with minds of their own.
“This”
I suppose they think if they say it often enough it’ll come true. Please let that be it… please let that be it… please let that be it…
It actually strikes me as strange that we have language-specific names for places that are different from the native names.
Germany instead of Deutchland? I know that the Romans gave us “Germania,” but why stick with that? We can pronounce “doich land” just fine.
Same with “nor yay” and “nippon.” The only translations that make sense are when your place name consists of dictionary words, such as “estados unidos.”
I once worked with a guy who referred to anyone who wasn’t an American and didn’t speak english as “Mexican”. Haitians, Lebanese, Cubans, French Canadians we worked with, all Mexicans. At times I see see the charm and wisdom of his ways.
Consider Led Zeppelin.
Now imagine all of Led Zeppelin being played as reggae.
Oh, and by the way, this time the front man is Elvis Presley.
Same with “nor yay” and “nippon.”
Is it possible that “nippon” is out of favor because during WWII American politicians spoke of “the Nipponese Empire”? and “nips” was a derogatory slang term?
I think that happens when your people don’t interact with those natives very much. It would only matter when you talk to one of them and get a funny look when you mention that place.