10 Wednesday Oct 2007
Posted in humour, life stuff, miscellany
What do you do when you are bored?
I found this great list of options on Adam’s blog and wanted to share it here.
Feel free to add your own personal boredom breaking activities. 🙂
09 Tuesday Oct 2007
Posted in food & drink, humour, language, tapas
Genesis 11:7 from The Brick Testament.
Come, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that they cannot understand each other’s speech.
A couple of days ago I saw this wonderful video over at Ration Reality, showing a film that had been translated from English into French, then into German, then back into French, then back into English using a popular translation website. And I commented there that I thought a similar technique was used for translating restaurant menus in Sevilla. I thought I was joking.
Then today I was having a look at the referrers on my Sevilla Tapas blog, as I am always curious to see how people are finding the place. And I saw something odd.
Someone had used a translator on the Food Translations page (which is a list of Spanish food names translated and described in English) to translate it all into Spanish. And the curious thing was that the words that were originally in Spanish started going a bit wonky when they were ‘re-translated’.
So of course the next step had to be translating the whole thing back into English just to see if this is really how they translate menus here. And you know what? Well, just check it out and decide for yourself. Some of it is almost normal, other bits are totally bizarre.
When things stop making any sense at all just refer back to the Food Translations page. 🙂
07 Sunday Oct 2007
26 Wednesday Sep 2007
Posted in blogging, fun stuff, humour, miscellany
So what will you be doing this weekend?
The Special Projects Idea Generator
Some other personal favourites include …
~ from the Idea Generator via the Generator Blog ~
22 Saturday Sep 2007
Posted in animals & pets, blogging, humour, quizzes
A possible sequel to this and that …
House CAT – Your average, “blogging about my life” blogger. May seem boring, but some people’s lives are strangely entertaining.
CAT-alyst – Blogs for change.
CAT-astrophe – Writes one of those god-awful blogs that you can’t believe anyone actually reads. I’m sure you’ve run across a few. Usually has more ads than content.
Copy CAT – The scraper and the splogger, who gets all of their content from other hard working bloggers. May not know what they’re doing is wrong.
CAT Burglar – Same as above, but most definitely DOES know what they’re doing is wrong.
Alley CAT – One who is teetering on the brink of becoming one of the two above. Hangs out is some poorly chosen back alley’s of the intertubez.
CAT-acomb – Has created a deep and winding archive that can cause one to get lost while exploring. Some interesting things may be found during the excursion.
CAT-apult – Constantly launching their blog to the next level. Sometimes stratospheric shots, sometimes short range hits.
CAT-echism – Religious blogger.
Scaredy-CAT – Afraid of offending anyone or saying anything that anyone would disagree with. In trying to please everyone, doesn’t please anyone.
CAT-aract – Writes so well that they cloud your own viewpoint. Tends to have raving fans, whether or not what they write actually has any clarity.
CAT scan – Posts aren’t really worth reading all the way through.
CAT-tle – Doesn’t have their own opinion about anything, and just follows what the crowd or the blogging cowboys say.
CAT-amaran – Currently riding a big wave of success.
How do you CAT-egorize yourself? Can you think of any more CAT-egories?
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