If you read English and have an internet connection, sooner or later you’re going to run across the strange acronymn TL;DR which stands for “Too long, didn’t read”. If you look over on the sidebar under the heading “Blogposts about this Blog” and actually click on all the links, you’ll find several which say (approximately) “Hey this article I’m linking to is long but worth … Continue reading TL;DR
Start Magic Beans Rate (rp/mb) Rainbow Pellets Step 1 1000 4.25 4250 Step 2 1012 4.20 Step 3 4.25 4301 Step 4 1024 4.20 Step 5 4.25 4352 Step 6 1036 4.20 Step 7 4.25 4404 Step 8 1048 4.20 Step 9 4.25 4456 Step 10 1061 4.20 Step 11 4.25 4509 Step 12 1074 4.20 Step 13 4.25 4563 Step 14 1086 4.20 Step … Continue reading Fun With Mathematics
The other day The Woman and I were talking about what are known as smelling salts, a very powerful aromatic mixture given to people who have lost consciousness in order to use a biological response to “jolt” them awake. In ordinary Hungarian the word “só” means “salt” but the interesting thing is that their name for “smelling salts” is repülősó, a combination of the word … Continue reading Hungarian Word of the Day: Repülősó
Although I often write about the strange and mysterious aspects of the Romanian language (and its grammar), sometimes things are fairly straightforward. One example is the prefex “ne” in Romanian, which generally follows right along with the prefix “un” in English, to indicate an opposite meaning. adevarat/neadeverat – true/untrue placut/neplacut – pleasant/unpleasant However there are some words you need to know which – very importantly … Continue reading Double Plus Ungood
Since some of you cannot read more than 3 paragraphs, here is the summary of the rest of this article: Romanians starved and suffered (esp in the 1980’s) not because of bad luck or Communism but because the government decided to sell almost every scrap of food in order to pay off international bankers. And now the same thing is going on today. For those … Continue reading Going Hungry So A Banker May Eat Caviar
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