the stars were aligned tonight
Lord have mercy
Shopping for Technologah in Taiwan is a little weird, especially out in the ‘burbs like we are. It’s all high-tech low-rung, dingy little kiosks and holes in walls, selling literal cyborg accessories. But today, we bought a camera. So now, I have to have a Photography Blog (as the kids call it).
I got a huge camera and started a photoblog. The photos on my photoblog so far are literally all taken with the iphone less than twelve hours before getting the huge camera. Because the huge camera crashes my netbook. :) :) :)
I love how LSP’s genesis was just Pen Ward swearing in a funny voice in the Adventure Time offices
That’s just the best reason to have a character
okay this last photoset is my awesome outfit, because I basically go to work in cosplay sometimes
#haters to the hating arena
this is a photoset about my motorcycle helmet. holy fuck I’m fabulous.
this is a photoset about my awesome shoes. they are a bitch to get on and off when I go in and out of the classroom.
The Panda Won't Stop Screaming: On Joss Whedon and Mewling Quirm
As a writer, there is something special you do. It’s called writing. Sometimes you will write things you agree with, and sometimes, you won’t. It all depends on what you’re writing! Because, even if…
more quim stuff
Followup: Apparently the reason my father and my professor both spell qwim with a w is because they both learned it from extremely Irish grandparents, and for some reason that factor means it has to be a w? There’s no reference on wiktionary nor on etymonline, so I’m forced to conclude that this is a fairly rare spelling variant.
For what it’s worth, google automatically corrects a search for “qwim” to “swim,” but it definitely knows what a quim is. The Google Books n-Gram does have some instances of the “w” in the nineteenth century, but no visible blips elsewhere.
QWIM
It’s weird when a bunch of my followeds on this site are like, really fucking into Avengers, right, and they uh. Apparently all learned a new vocabulary word?
Listen, when I learned the word qwim growing up, I was told two things: first, it is spelled with a W (I still don’t really know why), and second it is as bad as “cunt” and godsakes do not say it where Polite Folk can hear you.
What’s hilarious is, I actually had a whole college lecture on “qwim” from one of my favorite professors. It was a sociolinguistics intro course, and the lecture is a semi-famous one within the department: the professor writes the word in huge, three-foot-high letters on the board behind him, and talks at length about how powerful and dirty the word is, but never says it. He in fact says he’s not going to say it. He explains that it would probably make us feel deeply uncomfortable to hear him say it, and that even seeing it written probably made us feel super weird. This was actually true, but only for five out of two hundred students. The next year, when I sat in on the same class as a tutor rather than a student, he’d changed the lecture to use the word cunt instead, because it got the visceral reaction he was trying to talk about.
ANYWAYS. DESENSITIZATION AND SEMANTIC BLEACHING ARE WEIRD. THE END.
