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Posted on Saturday, May 3, 2008 | Filed under: Bad Society, Dirty Little Consumer, Domesticated, Drunk Blogging, Eat the Rich, Equality & Justice, Feminism, Godbaggery, Good Culture, Good Society, News, Noteworthy, Philosophy, Politics, Pretentious Academic, Retardation, Team America Fuck Yeah, Teevee Is For Losers, The Idiot Masses, Things That Suck, Vanity, What the Fuck, nerd
Tagged: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Philosophy, Politics, Retardation, Team America Fuck Yeah, voting
As discussed with friends, on Tuesday I shall be voting for Barack Obama, which goes contrary to my woman-identified, woman-preferred leanings.
The reason: Hillary Clinton is a MACHINE POLITICIAN (a.k.a. part of the political machine; i.e., just like Mayor Daley of Chicago and Mayor Daley of Chicago-current [a.k.a. Chi-town, a.k.a. The (Da) Region]). [...]
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Posted on Monday, April 7, 2008 | Filed under: Books, Dirty Little Consumer, Domesticated, Pretentious Academic
Tagged: bibliophile, book sale, Books, geek, library, nerd, reading
On a whim The Partner and I stopped by the city library after dinner this evening and lo! they were having a book sale! A $1-A-BAG book sale. I love local book sales as university professors donate their books, which means you can often find great academic nonfiction, which the nerd/geek in me [...]
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Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 | Filed under: Pretentious Academic, Vanity, nerd
Tagged: linguistics, LOLCat, nerd, research
#35. A search on the linguistics of the emergent LOLCat pseudo-language brought me to a December 2007 post at Linguistic Mystic in which he examines a discussion for LOLCODE programmers:
I know VISIBLE is the current output command, but it’s so not LOLCAT. What if we used LOL as the output [...]
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