Maybe Malaysia is trying to pull off a casually insouciant look in its border crossings? You know, if they were clean, they'd look as if they were competing with Singapore. As it is, Malaysia can be all "Oh, sure, if you don't have anything better to do than look blindingly efficient..."
Tell me about it. Growing up on 40's through 70's SF means that for about the last ten years, every time I've looked at a date I've had a little twinge of "Still no moon colonies or personal jet-packs. This sucks."
I had a professor who bought bootlegged copies of Microsoft products in China just to see if they worked, but then he removed them from his computer, because he didn't want to be involved in the IP violation---or so he said.
Perhaps someone here can answer this Malaysia-Singapore question: What is the difference between a bridge and a causeway? How can you tell when the a surface that you are driving on over a body of water is one, as opposed to the other?
For awhile the I-90 highway had a similar mismatch - the Illinois side was kept absolutely immaculate and the Wisconsin side was awful. Neither matched the road quality throughout the rest of the states.
"And I just figured the Sci-Fi Channel had made a 2-hour movie before starting the series (didn't they, actually?) "
4 hour mini-series in two parts, actually. In the U.S. available both as its own DVD, and for not a huge amount more along with the entire first season.
"With the A-Team's Faceman as Starbuck. Or maybe Apollo."
crap, poor html formatting ate two words. Intended to read: Ok ogged, you've reduced Weiner and B-wo to arguing about what is rock and what is not in the Crooked Timber comments. Haven't you done enough?
That thread at CT made my brain hurt even more than the thread at BPhd.
I mean, I'm enough of a music snob that the average person would find me obnoxious (family members get really impatient with my incessant whining about radio stations when in the car with me), but jesus christ, it was like I was looking into a whole nether-world filled the music version of my sister-in-law, who needs to tell me why such-and-such piece of animation is more kawaii than this-and-that and all I'm hearing is blah-blah-blah, and why the fuck can't we just shut the fuck up and ROCK, for christ's sake.
[pant, pant]
When I go home I'm going to listen to Kill 'Em All. Loud.
Thanks, eb. I have nothing relevant to add, so let me post this bit of NYT editorializing as an advertisment for Hug Your Grammar Shrew day:
Mr. Bush cannot fire Mr. Cheney, but he could do what other presidents have done to vice presidents: keep him too busy attending funerals and acting as the chairman of studies to do more harm.
eb, that looks like good work, though I don't have time to click now. I'm pretty sure the number of links were what spam-moderated it. But also what makes it so appealing! The paradox of whatever it is.
The best selection of pirate DVDs that I found was in Penang. Truly mind-boggling--these guys have whole stores set up in major malls, filled with only DVD cases. They have to go "downstairs" to fetch the actual discs you want, presumably from a truck at a loading dock that just keeps its engine running all the time, on the off chance some non-bribed police show up.
I did that whole "Nothing to Declare" business in Singapore a few days later, with four DVDs in my backpack, and was scared absolutely shitless going through the line. My buddy went through with about 25 discs in a Case Logic case, totally oblivious to the signs warning against bringing in unauthorized copies of music and movies. I had visions of both of our bleeding backsides splashed all over the American nightly news...
Maybe Malaysia is trying to pull off a casually insouciant look in its border crossings? You know, if they were clean, they'd look as if they were competing with Singapore. As it is, Malaysia can be all "Oh, sure, if you don't have anything better to do than look blindingly efficient..."
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 8:13 AM
Don't you mean that there are 2 ringgit to the Sing $? Otherwise everything would be twice as expensive.
Shouldn't the original BG movie have more cred, anyway?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 8:13 AM
Says someone who used to own a Space: 1999 lunchbox. Man, none of that shit happened, did it?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 8:14 AM
Tell me about it. Growing up on 40's through 70's SF means that for about the last ten years, every time I've looked at a date I've had a little twinge of "Still no moon colonies or personal jet-packs. This sucks."
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 8:21 AM
matt: d'oh! I'll fix that. yeah, and where's my flying car, huh? I wanna wanna flying car!
Posted by alameida | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 8:43 AM
I had a professor who bought bootlegged copies of Microsoft products in China just to see if they worked, but then he removed them from his computer, because he didn't want to be involved in the IP violation---or so he said.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 9:10 AM
wait, you used to have Husband X as a professor! that's totally airwolf! it's one degree of separation!
Posted by alameida | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 9:27 AM
Perhaps someone here can answer this Malaysia-Singapore question: What is the difference between a bridge and a causeway? How can you tell when the a surface that you are driving on over a body of water is one, as opposed to the other?
Also, Aw, pickles?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 10:23 AM
Naturally Husband X is all
Does this mean there's also a Husband Y?
Posted by ogmb | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 11:56 AM
No, Husband I - Husband IX.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 11:58 AM
I wanna wanna flying car!
The kid is on the job.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 12:00 PM
Would husband XX be a wife?
For awhile the I-90 highway had a similar mismatch - the Illinois side was kept absolutely immaculate and the Wisconsin side was awful. Neither matched the road quality throughout the rest of the states.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 12:21 PM
Husband X.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 12:35 PM
Maintaining anonymity by any means necessary.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 12:40 PM
12: I hope the Wisconsin side of I-90 wasn't worse than I-43 between Beloit and Milwaukee because that there is some teeth-rattling road.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 1:48 PM
Were Husbands I - VIII named Henry?
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 1:55 PM
Do Husbands I-IX live in South-East Asian City States I-IX?
Posted by ogmb | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 5:12 PM
They live in a derangement thereof.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 5:14 PM
Psychotic city-states? I see a summer blockbuster in the future.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 7:44 PM
"And I just figured the Sci-Fi Channel had made a 2-hour movie before starting the series (didn't they, actually?) "
4 hour mini-series in two parts, actually. In the U.S. available both as its own DVD, and for not a huge amount more along with the entire first season.
"With the A-Team's Faceman as Starbuck. Or maybe Apollo."
Starbuck.
"I've had a little twinge of "Still no moon colonies or personal jet-packs. This sucks.""
Yes, but robot camel jockeys of Arabia. Can't beat those.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 11:04 PM
Ok ogged, you've reduced and B-wo to arguing about what is rock and what is not in the Crooked Timber comments. Haven't you done enough?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 11:51 PM
crap, poor html formatting ate two words. Intended to read: Ok ogged, you've reduced Weiner and B-wo to arguing about what is rock and what is not in the Crooked Timber comments. Haven't you done enough?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11- 7-05 11:58 PM
But it's to a post by Crooked Timber Contributor X, so it's not so bad, right?
Right?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 12:25 AM
Since we need grist to comment on (tomorrow for me, perhaps now for others), have you guys seen teh craziness over at Bitch, Ph.D.'s?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 12:48 AM
Yes. I can't believe she's got some jackass threatening to sue her.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 1:18 AM
Re XVI: She wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam!
Posted by Doug | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 5:17 AM
That thread at CT made my brain hurt even more than the thread at BPhd.
I mean, I'm enough of a music snob that the average person would find me obnoxious (family members get really impatient with my incessant whining about radio stations when in the car with me), but jesus christ, it was like I was looking into a whole nether-world filled the music version of my sister-in-law, who needs to tell me why such-and-such piece of animation is more kawaii than this-and-that and all I'm hearing is blah-blah-blah, and why the fuck can't we just shut the fuck up and ROCK, for christ's sake.
[pant, pant]
When I go home I'm going to listen to Kill 'Em All. Loud.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 9:34 AM
I keep trying to post something here and it keeps getting moderated and not appearing.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 1:00 PM
Thanks, eb. I have nothing relevant to add, so let me post this bit of NYT editorializing as an advertisment for Hug Your Grammar Shrew day:
(Emphasis added.) Nice work if you can get it.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 2:47 PM
Link.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 2:49 PM
eb, that's some nice work. I'd found a couple of those while skimming the archives here (the vocab one, at least), but the rest are new to me.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 3:22 PM
sb and w/d, thanks, it's nice to see that my unhealthy need to read the archives has paid off. Also.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 3:29 PM
eb, that looks like good work, though I don't have time to click now. I'm pretty sure the number of links were what spam-moderated it. But also what makes it so appealing! The paradox of whatever it is.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 4:05 PM
That speed reading thing was infuriating.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 5:01 PM
The best selection of pirate DVDs that I found was in Penang. Truly mind-boggling--these guys have whole stores set up in major malls, filled with only DVD cases. They have to go "downstairs" to fetch the actual discs you want, presumably from a truck at a loading dock that just keeps its engine running all the time, on the off chance some non-bribed police show up.
I did that whole "Nothing to Declare" business in Singapore a few days later, with four DVDs in my backpack, and was scared absolutely shitless going through the line. My buddy went through with about 25 discs in a Case Logic case, totally oblivious to the signs warning against bringing in unauthorized copies of music and movies. I had visions of both of our bleeding backsides splashed all over the American nightly news...
Posted by batu | Link to this comment | 11- 8-05 6:22 PM