Monday, June 28, 2010

Opti-free Replenish Used As Eye Drops

The international situation is a bit 'less unstable

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Those of my readers who are following with concern the central geopolitical events have not slept soundly since almost a year and a half ago, I reported that the Liechtenstein had not yet recognized the republics czech and Slovak and vice versa.
With improper delay can restore their peace of mind: my "post" must surely have stirred something in high places, because in a few months the Central European principality has established diplomatic relations with the two Slavic nations. Here are communicated official of the Government of Liechtenstein.

Peace has returned to Vaduz.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Embossed Wallpaper Laura Ashley



Se avete paura che, mentre fate le vostre spese in centro, possa aggredirvi un vampiro, a chi vi potete affidare se non al cugino motorizzato di Van Helsing? “Van Scharing”!

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Black Suit Purple Shirt

Beware the vampire is an emergency "critical"

Un amico mi chiede che cosa ne penso (o, volendo, che cosa ne pensa l'Accademia) dell'abitudine di usare “criticità” nel senso di “questione da affrontare urgentemente”, come in “le criticità del progetto in questo momento sono...”, considerando anche che, di fronte ai suoi tentativi di sostituirlo con qualche altro termine che suoni meglio, i colleghi del mio amico rispondono that this word is in the dictionary. "

My humble opinion is that the gentlemen we are talking about probably do not have very clear that there is a vocabulary that permits to use a certain word in a particular way: on the contrary, if a word comes into use a way, sooner or later the vocabularies they note, even if the people began to call "artichokes" eggplant. (Indeed, some vocabularies are very nimble to incorporate new terms and new meanings: if you want to publish a new edition every year, more stuff is better.) Is almost as if a robber showed the newspaper that talks about his company to demonstrate that it has done well to commetterla.
A me personalmente “criticità” suona pessimamente: profuma della pigrizia intellettuale di cui trasudano tutti questi neologismi di marketinghese. Qualcuno li tira fuori per riempirsi la bocca con polisillabi inutili, e altri gli vanno dietro pensando di darsi un tono.
D'altro canto, le lingue evolvono, anche con meccanismi di questi tipo: buona parte dell'attuale pronuncia inglese viene dai vezzi linguistici dei reali e dei cortigiani londinesi dei tempi andati.
In particolare, in questo caso mi sembra che si tratti semplicemente del meccanismo che parte da una parola che denota una certa qualità in generale e porta a usarla per indicare uno specifico oggetto o situazione che possiede that quality, a bit 'as' truth' in the general sense of "being real consistent quality" compared to the single "truth" of philosophy, science etc.. The conclusions
traetele you.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Laser Sailing Boat Ages




On Metro (newspaper distributed for free) today, on page 16 appears an editorial entitled "The university is not" signed by Mariano Sabatini. (I think you can see here , but their site is always difficult to follow.)
The starting point is the written test for Italian school-leaving examination taking place today, and the advice to high school students is they do not want at all costs to continue their studies. In fact, says Sabatini, "the feeling, supported by the data appeared in these pages last week, is that the university is no longer a guarantee of safe use" (but should!).
The thing that puzzles me get to the end: "It is not obvious that the lives of campers at universities are more taken by those who decide to start as soon as possible to be measured by the difficult world of work. Better a passionate cabinetmaker, who reads Tolstoy or maybe in the evening Camilleri, a researcher who deceived, exploited by the 'Baron' on duty, do not even have time to browse through a comic book. "
If "better" means that you happier, it may very well be, or maybe not. It is a professional cyclist happier with the hobby of ikebana, or a butcher who plays the cello? Or a scavenger lover who devotes every spare minute to the loved one? Who knows?
If, as seems, we are telling the reader of Tolstoy and Camilleri is the most cultured of the researcher, even here we do not have any evidence to say this: it can be and can not be. Perhaps the researcher, as used, is an expert on string theory, genetics or medieval paleography, and then it will not be so uneducated. It's almost as if you gave it for granted that the main job does not contribute to the culture, while it would be formed only by the evening of readings Camilleri ...

Monday, June 21, 2010

How To Roll A Perfect Neckerchief

finicky cabinetmakers caught in the clouds

blogghistica My business is languishing a bit, 'and before the long silence makes me faint, point out a blog based on a healthy spirit pignuolo.

This Clouds Anomalous dedicated to errors in the comic continuity errors, factual errors, grammatical mistakes, and two of the black beasts of the drawings, which are almost icons of the blog: the hands of six fingers and rotary phones to nine holes.
But above all, do not miss the applicants sightings Qué , the fourth grandson of Donald Duck.