| Ohgod she's younger than me. |
[Aug. 4th, 2009|10:47 pm] |
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| | You Belong With Me, Taylor Swift | ] |
http://mmaster.deadjournal.com/639967.html
I have the album that that song is from. Sure, the lyrics irritate me, but it's boppy, and catchy, and Chris and I smirk at each other every time we hear it.
The album is titled Fearless. Part of the artist's notes follow (I'm sparing you the creative formatting; you'll thank me) This album is called Fearless, and I guess I'd like to clarify why we chose that as the title. To me, "fearless" is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. ...No.
Define:fearless - "without fear"
What you're describing is "brave".
Define:brave - "to meet or face courageously"
True, they can be (and sometimes are) used as synonyms (in fact, the dictionary link for 'fearless' suggests 'brave' as a synonym); but the meanings vary. "Brave" implies acknowledgement but dismissal of fear - "Fearless" means that it was never there in the first place.
*grumblerumble*
-Mmaster
PS: You put on glasses that are too big for your face and we're supposed to believe that this makes you ugly? *shakes head* |
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[Jun. 2nd, 2009|01:46 pm] |
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| | The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas, They Might Be Giants | ] |
Interesting...
The class received an email from the Photography teacher:
<snip>
Could you please bring with you a small paint brush size 0000 or 000 or 00.
Whatever you can get your hands on. We will be looking at retouching images
along with dodging and burning next week. Also, if you can get yourselves a
bottle of ink for retouching this would be helpful as the university doesn't
provide ink. It lasts a long time, you could go half with someone and share
it. Again, Vanbar stocks them. A basic black and basic grey is what you
need.
<snip>
I went to Vanbar, checked it out, and found out that they no longer stocked it. So I sent her an email asking if she knew any other shops that might have it.
This was the response.
try teds or foto riesel maybe ring them rather than go there. also try oxford art supplies 93604066 is there no. i think. or eckersleys
Interesting jump in grammar!
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[Dec. 17th, 2008|11:54 am] |
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| |  frustrated | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Brand New Colony, The Postal Service | ] |
On my work computer, I have a text file with a list of words I hate trying to write/type - because I make the same typo every single time.
It's accumulated into quite a list by now, though admittedly some of them I haven't had to write in a while and might not get wrong any more. Cases where I can remember the typo are listed.
* Department (Deptartment)
* Longitude (Longtitude)
* Orthopaedics (Orthapedics)
* Surprised (Suprised)
* Furniture (Furniature)
* Latest (Lastest)
* Exercise (Excercise)
* Paediatrics
* Anaesthesia
* Attached (Attatched)
* Distinct
* Referral (Refferal)
* Thunder (Thundre)
...Gah! It's a wonder I manage to produce any presentable documents. My fingers love to type phonetically, particularly when I'm tired.
-Mmaster |
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[Jul. 1st, 2008|08:46 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | I Want To Know Your Plans, Say Anything | ] |
I've never seen "Leichhart" spelled "liecart".
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[Jun. 14th, 2008|09:38 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  *shakes head* | ] |
| [ | music |
| | I'm Dying Tomorrow (Live), Alkaline Trio | ] |
Gods.
You know it's terrible English usage if even Chris is mocking you on it.
...Mind you, I should have known better than to use Tysen's phrasing...
*shakes head*
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[Jun. 12th, 2008|05:52 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  confused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Lighthouse, Interpol | ] |
The most creative spelling of "unfortunately" I've ever seen:
unphortunitly
... There are no words.
-Mmaster |
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| In other news, I've memorised my debit card number. Is that a bad sign? |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|10:55 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  irritated | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Ladies' Choice, Hairspray | ] |
For all its technical accuracy, the term "kibibit" annoys the hell out of me for some reason I can't put my finger on.
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| People with English as a second language are interesting. |
[Mar. 6th, 2008|09:32 pm] |
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| |  calm | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Nicest Kids In Town, Hairspray | ] |
On my way back to Uni from work this afternoon, I was forced to stop while I waited for the traffic lights to change.
On the post, there was an ad that (I assume) promoted a flat for rent. I couldn't read it, because only the address was in characters I could read; the rest was in some Asian language or other. Okay.
However, the fact that it included the word "BRODUAY" made me die a little inside...
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[Oct. 29th, 2007|07:41 pm] |
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*Mm is proofreading Chris' essay
Mm: *is typing* "Games provide a" ...You'd never say the word "facsimile" in a sentence, would you?
Chris: "Flexibility"?
Mm: All right, let's not put that in...
-Mmaster |
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| Who in the what now? |
[Oct. 29th, 2007|04:45 pm] |
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| |  busy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Trolleywood, Eisley | ] |
"QA process revels flaws in document"
Whoo! Document flaws! Party on!
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| Just so slightly ironic that it goes completely over your head... |
[Oct. 28th, 2007|03:34 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | I'm A Genius, John Frazier | ] |
We apparently have an 'indented' audience for one of our documents.
-Mmaster
EDIT: Is it bad that I'm tempted to start writing about Interpretive Dance as an alternative method for "Document an implementation plan"? I mean, what the Hell am I supposed to say for that?
Task 7: Document an Implementation Plan
Candidate Technique: Interpretive Dance
Description: The steps required for implementation are elicited, before being converted to an interpretive dance performed by team members on presentation day.
Reason for non-use: No-one in the team is a particularly skilled choreographer. Lack of permanency, accompanied by difficulty of conversion to paper form. Blatant insanity of idea. |
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| Cool blue reason wraps around your throat; the minutes change like seasons, only 8 more hours to go. |
[Oct. 26th, 2007|01:36 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | knowledgeable | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Cool Blue Reason, Cake | ] |
I got to use 'cessation' in a sentence. :D!
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| Bwahahahah. |
[Oct. 13th, 2007|10:52 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Keystroke, Her Space Holiday | ] |
When I signed in to MSN this evening, Thomas' subname was set to Will you be my desert?.
So I sent him the text "In geography, a desert is a landscape form or region that receives very little precipitation. Deserts are defined as areas that receive an average annual precipitation of less than 250 mm (10 inches).".
He didn't respond. However, the next time I happened to look at the main window, the text had been changed to Will you be my grammar nazi?.
I recounted the exchange to my mother, who pointed out that it wasn't grammar, it was spelling.
*giggles*
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| Um... What? |
[Oct. 6th, 2007|03:17 pm] |
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| | confused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Some track from Chris' laptop; sounds like it's R.E.M. | ] |
Email from one of my SDP teammates:btw, so do we need to do all 15 points of 12? That's the entire text, aside from the copious other quoted emails he didn't delete.
...Huh?
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| We met for a movie; every scene was a sign, we made out through their meaning... |
[Oct. 3rd, 2007|07:59 am] |
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| | irritated | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Holiday From Real, Jack's Mannequin | ] |
To the world at large:
"Peek" != "Peak"!
Learn the difference.
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| It's way too late to be this trapped here by ourselves... |
[Sep. 5th, 2007|12:00 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Spooks Season 4, Episode 5 | ] |
A new amusing typo, taken from today's Clubs News:
"This is a fatalistic opportunity..."
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| *winces* |
[Aug. 5th, 2007|01:47 pm] |
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| | snobby | ] |
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| | Map Of The Problematique, Muse | ] |
I hate reading text in which the author doesn't know the difference between "discreet" and "discrete".
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| I'm sitting here, going, "I wish to strangle you..." |
[Jun. 18th, 2007|09:19 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | Angels & Airwaves in my head | ] |
This has to be the most off-topic LJ post I've ever seen. And I've seen lots of off topic posts. In a community called 'Sydneysiders'...
Since, if the mods have any sense, it will be deleted shortly, here is the text:I have a question and I didn't know where to ask it and I can't seem to find the information myself,well ok I really don't have the time to find it to be honest!
I recently purchased an i-pod the 30GB one I don't know if it has a special name or not.Anyways I am currently loading all my cd's on the computer to transfer them to the i-pod but they are saving at a low complexity rate and I wanna know how do I change that to say I guess a high complexity rate? Is that even possible?
Is there a specific site that I can look at that will show me how to do this?
None of my friends have i-pods they all brought different brands not one of them the same so I can't pass the buck onto them and make them do it all for me :(
Any help would be much appreciated and if this is found to be not appropiate for this community please let me know and it will be removed. If it helps I do live in Sydney LOL. If you get right down to it, I think it's the incorrect terminology (and, to a lesser extent, the spelling/grammar) that's annoying me more than the off-topic-ness; "low complexity rate"?!? *shakes head* I could never work in tech support.
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| WTH? |
[Jan. 14th, 2007|08:58 am] |
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| | You Need A Hug, The Ataris | ] |
From today's Sun Herald kids' pages...You name it!
We've hidden the names of some cities in these jumbled sentences. See if you can find them...- It was a sunny day a then said the little boy.
- After rescuing the princess, the prince was declared a hero me and you.
- Eat that melon don't throw it.
- Simply being on par isn't ok.
- I can't ok you do it.
- When fashion fails, you think chic a gone.
- The girl leaned in and began to whisper the secret.
- Mandy didn't have a choice, she had to invite Amber Linda to her party.
"Jumbled" is about right. While some of those sentences could be improved by a little extra punctuation (but evidently they didn't want to break up the words they were constructing - it'd confuse the eight-year-olds), several of the sentences (1, 2, and possibly 6) simply make no sense. ...Besides, who the Hell calls a child "Amber Linda"?
*shakes head*
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| And I've spent the majority of the day reading the Internet; so that's saying something. |
[Jan. 2nd, 2007|10:33 pm] |
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| | Rent, Rent cast | ] |
The silliest sentence I have read today:He'd decimated half the people. Literal translation: He'd reduced the population by one in every twenty. Somehow, I disbelieve that that was the author's intention. You?
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