English is a tough language to learn when you’re learning it as a second language.
Take for instance this phrase, “I don’t pretend to know anything”.
What does it mean?
“I know” means “I have knowledge about a subject”.
“I pretend to know” means “I have no idea what you are talking about but I am just going to fake it and hope no one sees through my charade”.
“I don’t pretend to know” means “If I have no idea, I will not lie about knowing the subject at hand”.
“anything” means “what people really mean when they say everything”.
Thus, “I don’t pretend to know anything” means “I have no fricking clue what you are talking about and I won’t even waste an ounce of energy faking that I do”.
So what have we learned today, class?
If you are drawing a blank when in a conversation, just visualize them in their underwear and zone out.
I am not sure if this is just something done in San Francisco, but is there a point in putting sparkling dust into the concrete on the sidewalks?
In the mornings when I am heading towards my workplace, the sidewalk reflects the rising sun’s light right into my eyes forcing me to squint as I walk.
Walking in San Francisco in the morning is like snowboarding without goggles.
The other day, I was looking for a decent tutorial on creating pagination using PHP. I did a couple Google searches, but the results did not fit my criteria. I was looking for a caterpillar pagination where there is a head, a tail, and a middle section that moves along as you click through the pages.
Previously, the site I was working on had used a previous/next deal where the user would just keep clicking next to get further through the records. But, this type of navigation takes too long to get to the end and is not very search engine friendly. Continue Reading »
I was working through the night last night, burning the midnight oil as they say, trying to get this AJAX deal to work. I had to fill a select field with options once the user selects an option from a second select field. But, every time I made the AJAX call to retrieve the data, the target select field remained empty… in IE. Argh! IE! Why do you haunt me so?! Continue Reading »
This is a comedy series that started playing in december 2007. Bosco Wong, Myolie Wu, Joyce Tang, and a few more. Its about a war between the Mother and the In-law (myolie wu). The theme is around a fashion magazine called Elva where the Mother is the Director of the magazine.. Lots of tension between them results in some “driving you nuts” type of drama. I’d rate it an 8/10.
As part of the bi-annual daylight savings time ritual, the clock is pushed forward an hour this weekend. Half a year later when the clock is pushed back an hour, one begins to wonder why this act is performed at all.
Someone somewhere once said that if the daylight savings time deal is never done then one of these days will have the day and night flip-flopped. People will begin to wake up at night to go to work and sleep in during the day like vampires.
That would be cool.
One generation could be night-walkers and the next generation could be day-walkers like Blade!
Yes.
Mind is totally blank right now. No thoughts whatsoever.
From an internal email list at work today, this little gem popped through and introduced a little fun into what had been a drab work day.
From the words of the creator, Emil Ernerfeldt, Phun is a “fun 2D physics sandbox”. The program was written by Emil for his Masters of Science Thesis at Umeå University. The program allows the user to create and manipulate objects and see the effects of gravity and motion. Continue Reading »
In an earlier blog entry where I spoke about moving hosts, I mentioned using Chris Heilmann’s Canvas Pie Chart in some way. Unfortunately, I never got around to digging into the code to create something for Frobie.
However, while browsing through SourceForge for cool scripts, I found another option for my graph creations. The option turned out to be an open-source flash script created by John Glazebrook called Open Flash Chart. Continue Reading »
Family Guy meets Star Wars. This movie is hilarious! Take the wacky yet brilliant humor of Family Guy and apply it to Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope. The result is one damn entertaining movie.
The only gripe I had with the movie was its length. It is about 45 minutes long. This “movie” is actually the season 6 opener, aired on TV in September, 2007. The 45 minute length is the amount of content shown during a regular hour of broadcast television, with commercials filling up the rest of the time. It would have been great if this movie was feature length, say 80 minutes or so.
Family Guy meets Star Wars. This movie is hilarious! Take the wacky yet brilliant humor of Family Guy and apply it to Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope. The result is one damn entertaining movie.