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Serenity Movie - Chinese by Story - Firefly-Serenity Chinese Pinyinary
A site that breaks down the Mandarin phrases used in the Serenity universe. One of my favorites:

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"WUOshang mayer, maysheen, BYEN shr-to"
"I will close my ears and my heart and I will be a stone"
River, continuing to pray in Chinese after breaking into English [novelization, p. 207]
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CC - Games > The Space Game

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New laptop (part 2)

After a couple of weeks with a new Dell Studio XPS 13, it was obvious that it was not the laptop for me. Don't get me wrong, it was a fine machine, but with Vista 64-bit and my complete inability to succesfully "upgrade" it to Vista Ultimate 32-bit (yes, I tried to wipe and re-install).

So, with little hope but a "worth a shot" attitude, back to Best Buy I went. After a quick chat with the most helpful people at the Lohr Road (thanks Stefani and Ken!), I swapped the Dell for a MacBook (last of last year's models); never had to pull out a card.

So far, I'm still getting used to the MacBook. The keyboard layout is just different enough that I keep hitting the Caps Lock key instead of "a", and I do miss the backlit keyboard, but so far so good.

I've never actually owned a Mac before, so this is going to be an interesting trip.
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2009 SXSW Music Is Out

As with previous years, the SXSW music has been released to the 'net. And, like last year, it was up to the fans to seed a torrent of the 5 gigs of music (because it's too hard for the organizers to promote their own event, apparently).

Well, the seeds are up and available for your downloading pleasure. Get them here.

[via Metafilter]
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Pricing Fail

Dear Amazon,

Fix this:



$0.99  x 10 < $9.99. I know it's less than a dime, but come on. How hard is it to write a check for this?
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Diether Haenicke, former WMU president, dies at 73

A great President and someone who actually mattered to many students at Western in a very personal way.

I was never fortunate to meet him personally, but he authorized a grant for me to attend a writing conference (after being shot down hard by the Dean).

He was intensely dedicated to the University and it and the city were better for it. The entire system--and Kalamazoo in general--has lost one of it's great advocates.

Diether Haenicke, former WMU president, dies at 73
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I do love being in the tower

Looking north from the tenth floor of Wolverine Tower in Ann Arbit, MI.
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Who Loves to Walk?

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Weather Forecast Fail

Golf clap, Weather Channel
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Confessions of a Closet Singer

I can, sort of, sing. By "sort of", I mean that I can hit notes with some accuracy within a fairly limited range. I can, sort of, do falsetto. I can add vibrato, if it's in my very limited range. Basically, I can sing anything baritone as long as it doesn't require, yah know, strength. I have surprising power in the mid ranges. Ok, surprising to someone who doesn't or can't sing; not so surprising if you nailed lead on your high school Into The Woods audition. In a different vein, I have Open Mic Power; I can belt out that pop hit from the 90's like no one's business.The unfortunate consequence of this is: I think I can sing. And I can't. I mean, I enjoy singing and nothing will really stop me from doing so. Well, accept an audience. I sing in the car, the den, when I think no one's listening. But I don't seek out venues to sing anymore. To top it off, I'm a friggen prude about it too. I won't sing karaoke, I won't belt out in …
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