that's not mine

its from j-list.com

"I can just see the patterns. It's like music."

I continue to watch my kids grow up, fascinated at how they go about acquiring

English and Japanese. My wife is helping my son study for the Step Test, level

2, a test that's usually taken by students in their third year of high school

(and for students who aren't putting a special effort into learning English,

not at all). Like most Japanese, my wife has learned English in a very

analytical way, memorizing the grammar as if it were a collection of complex

formulas. Verbs in English come in three varieties, present tense, past tense

and past participle, and Japanese have perfected the memorization of these

verbs into a science, spitting out "go, went, went" "eat, ate, eaten" "drive,

drove, driven" very easily. My wife naturally tries to impart this to my son,

but he refuses to learn English in this way -- he can usually "sense" the

correct answer on a test and doesn't need to make it more complex by trying to

understand the grammar like his mother does. When she asked him how he was

able to get the right answer without consciously knowing the rules of English,

he replied, "I can just see the patterns. It's like music." Kids sure are

amazing things.

and another thing...

How can you tell how close the chameleon is to the temple? Huh?

How?

Loonatics Extreme!

Buzz" Bunny had a god-damned laser samurai
sword and they all had for some
reason the ability to
shoot flame from
their eyes. i am not making this up.

i think that at some times they must have known it, known how bad it had to be and then at some point (i just remembered that they used a Korean animation house to do teh animation. isn't that the ultimate American buisiness story right there?) at some point they decided to have fun with it. cause some stuff was just heinous. They ripped off somuch shit it was just incredible. man.

I, the mighty Dyslexor, challenge you to...

i forgot...

poetry from spam again

gnome Do not take 2 doses at once lotus

$.S.T.O.R - disparity of knowledge and power

Caroline c.0.u.g.h.e.d and s*t*r*e*t*c*h*e*d her h.a.n.d quickly to move - Douce...

Tanya Vlahos- VAI|1lUM, C||A|1IS, V1lAGRA. .

Jonnyvongolden

Oh, that?

that's the little sound that lets you know you're traveling silently.

what is it? it makes no sense!

MJ/FISH, 09-24-04
i THINK EVERYONE SHOULD PUT GOD FIRST!!! dO THAT AND EVERYTHING WILL GO ACCORDING TO PLAN!!! :-)


here in context. (explains nothing)

finals week again

so that means communication will be intermittent for a while. Or maybe more mittent than ever, considering i gotta work till i finish both these projects, then write a speech...i feel like i'm doing twenty things at once. i am on avout twenty different kinds of drugs at once; coffee, sugar, vitamins, weed, endorphins...

maybe i should have a little thing in the sidebar. Like some people have- 'now listening to'- mine could be- 'what drugs am i on'. little checkboxes or something.

haiku

can a computer make you cry?
i leave you this-
save early, save lots

here it is again

stumbling around the house, doing at least three assignments simultaneously. It's all gotta get done, because we're going to burning man this thursday. hopefully i'll have some stories for you from that. But for now, it's basically just like finals week. though that's yet to come.