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Conlang magic

Posted on February 16, 2016

My buddy Kawa (link NSFW) has this constructed language, Felinese, he’s been working on since… uh, a long time. Recently, he asked me to record a line of the Pokémon theme in his language, to be used along with a bunch of other conlangs for this mashup. Pretty cool, yeah?

(or watch the whole thing.)

Illateral thinking

Posted on December 10, 2015

Wikipedia defines lateral thinking as “If everyone reading this right now gave $3, our fundraiser would be done within an hour.”

Wikipedia defines lateral thinking as “solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.” That’s interesting enough in and of itself, but I propose an antonym to the term: “illateral thinking”. read more

Totally legitimate signs you might be a ’90s kid

Posted on May 30, 2015
Ron Weasley

  • You were a kid during the ’90s.
  • You were born in the late ’80s or early ’90s.
  • You remember things from the ’90s, but not super well because you were young and didn’t have the same frame of reference you do now.
  • You thought ’90s pop music was good.
  • You took a quiz on the internet and it said you are a ’90s kid.
  • All your friends are ’90s kids and you are the same age as them.
  • You were around for most or all of the ’90s and weren’t an adult yet.
  • You think of The Little Mermaid as “one of the original classic Disney movies like Snow White and Cinderella” even though you saw it in the theater. This is also a sign that you might be an idiot.
  • You know the “Oscar Mayer Weiner” song even though you never once saw it on TV because your parents sang it every time they bought hot dogs (even other brands) and they think of course you know it because it’s on TV even though THEY DON’T SHOW THIS COMMERCIAL ANYMORE MOM AND DAD AND THEY HAVEN’T IN MY WHOLE LIFETIME AND COME ON THE SIXTIES ENDED YEARS AGO.
  • You have ever had Mountain Dew, which was introduced in 1940 but is still a ’90s kid thing, apparently.
  • When you think of Will Smith, the first thing you think of is the film Wild Wild West, which was a ’90s film and the epitome of his stardom for that decade and he even did a rap song for it.
  • Your favorite cartoon was Kim Possible.
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