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Colbert for President? Am I in a movie?

2007: 10/17
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I have no idea why I find this hilarious

2007: 10/16
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verbagewreck

English is a Germanic language, without the grammatical gender (die, der, das), verb strength preferences (shift in language, called an ablaut), and adjective agreement (I is vs I am) that weighs down German and even formal English in some ways. Translation between English, French, and German, although coming from the same lingual roots, is not an easy thing to do effectively or well.

Playing with BabelFish will provide hours of entertainment. This guy made a film.

Whatever yanks yer crank, dude.

2007: 09/27
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Face tracking animatronic spider

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It’s a “kinetic work of art”, but the moves are surprisingly realistic, as you can see in the video clip from Matt below.

2007: 09/26
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In memory of Madeleine L’Engle (11/29/1918-9/6/2007)

I can credit Madeleine L’Engle with giving me the desire and passion to seek out and understand higher level math. When I first read A Wrinkle In Time, I was fascinated by the implications of relationships in space/time and higher dimensions. Probably more so than the author intended, but nonetheless, my mind felt opened to the great potential of dimensionality in our small limited frame of 3D constraints. I felt awakened by it… and for a ten year old – that is huge.

Thanks to her, I am forever devoted to anything that deals with multiple worlds, time travel, and other dimensions. My own writing always follows my passion for such things.

And thanks to her, I know what a tesseract is. And thanks to Carl Sagan, you can too.