Friday Ephemera (708)
The robot did my lash extensions. || Transgender head-tilt, level nine. || When your local stores start closing because of looting, excusing the looters is the progressive thing to do. || Today’s word is mentor. || Modernity is a helluva thing. || Nostalgic coffee table of note. || Bach’s Coffee Cantata, 1735. || Identify birds and mammals with smart binoculars. || Be careful who you let in. || Canine dispute. || For the disabled, a tongue-operated trackpad. || Sheep relocation. || He is, I’m told, an associate professor of psychiatry. || The perils of dining on squid. || Own a piece of history, they said. || Whatever happened to the Hitlers? || Timing is important. || Probably best not to, I think. || Not unfair. || Fool me once. || And finally, in sports news, she’s the women’s world champion, you know.
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Japanese immigration to South America goes back a ways.
Heh. A college roommate, ethnically Japanese as I believe I related earlier here, his mother taught Spanish. While she had been born in a small town not too near Nagasaki shortly after the war her parents/family move to the west coast and she picked it up there. Anyway, we come back from Christmas break and my roommate relates this somewhat hilarious story. Seems she was Christmas shopping there in the Tampa area and she was at a store counter in Macy’s or Burdine’s or whatever. The two female Hispanic clerks were conversing in Spanish and too wrapped up in themselves to help her out. Eventually one made reference to needing to help the ‘gook’ (or whatever spanish slang term would be for oriental persons. The girl was shocked when his mom replied to her in perfect Spanish.
An unfortunate restaurant name.
An unfortunate restaurant name.
Meanwhile in Elizabethtown, KY…
An unfortunate restaurant name.
Not a restaurant, but still my favourite.
Logo of note
WTP genius post: I am just smart enough that I always picked up when the prof made a mistake (some were happy, some pissed). I had two friends in my high school who were IQ 160+. Both big screw ups. Could not decide what to do. One wanted to be a record company executive but was working retail at a record store after college, last I heard. The other was a math wiz (won the state math olympiad) but decided to major in art but then had art version of writer’s block (could not think of what to paint). I’m also smart enough that when I have met a few true genius types I could tell (I.J. Good for example).
The classic Terman genius study in CA turned out to be full of BS. Terman made a big effort to help his genius kids–wrote letters of rec for them for college for . example.
As my boss (our usual negotiating lead) has been known to say: “everything before ‘but’ is bullshit.” I don’t think the observation is original to him.
Just like the predator who drives down the street offering free candy.
On a lighter but louder note, these high school kids are impressively good.
Fine, let’s go with the actual German word: Judenhasser. Now it’s accurate.
A former co-worker was ethnically Japanese but raised in São Paulo. A large population of Japanese settled in Brazil awhile back (just before WWII?), and there are others who went to other parts of LATAM. The former president of Peru was named Fujimori.
Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946):