September 19th, 2007 by mrshl
A certain lass sent me a Facebook reminder that today, September 19th, is Talk Like a Pirate Day. To get into the spirit you may want to look into a couple of Pirate translators, either here or here. Naturally, these sites take your proper, landlocked English and make it seaworthy.
I should also pass on a translation the maiden forwarded to me:
Freegull
If I make port here next high tide’
Would ye still reckon me?
Fer I must be sailin’ on, now,
`Cause thar`s too many ports I`ve got t’ be seein’.
But, if I stayed here wi’ ye, lass,
Thin’s jus’ couldna be th’ same.
`Cause I be as free as a gull now,
An’ this gull ye canna change.
Begad, I canna change.
Arrrr, arrrr, its been a sweet love.
Tho this feelin’ I canna change.
But dasn’t loot ‘t badly,
`Cause Begad I be t’ blame.
But, if I stayed here wi’ ye lass,
Thin’s jus’ couldna be th’ same.
Cause I be as free as a gull now,
An’ this gull ye`ll nerechange.
An’ this gull ye canna change.
Begad, I canna change.
Gad help me, I canna change.
September 19th, 2007 by mrshl
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Google’s new PowerPoint competitor goes live. Now everyone can make inferior, annoying documents! Just kidding, have fun on the internet, kids.
September 18th, 2007 by mrshl
A Flickr set of final frames from a bunch of TV shows and movies:
September 18th, 2007 by mrshl
Well, it’s not called PowerPoint, and it lacks quite a few of the power features you get from Microsoft’s market leading desktop presentation software. But, as Dwight Silverman at the Chron points out, Google’s newest “doc” application solves a couple of big problems for the millions of people who aren’t PowerPoint users:
App by app, Google has been building an impressive online office suite with word processing and spreadsheets. Now the search giant has added a presentation manager, which is slick and solves two common problems — sharing presentations when the recipient doesn’t have PowerPoint, and needing to give a presentation to an audience on a computer that lacks software.
Presentations at Google Docs lets you both build presentations in your Web browser, as well as upload ones you’ve built in Microsoft’s PowerPoint. That makes presenting on any machine a snap — you just have to hope that, if it doesn’t have PowerPoint, it can at least get to the Internet
Silverman doesn’t dwell on it, but perhaps the biggest selling point for Google’s Office products is the ability to collaborate on documents in real time and track changes with easy-t0-use versioning. Microsoft’s excellent Office 2007 product also offers these capabilities, but it doesn’t come cheap and it’s not near as easy to set up.
Oh, yeah. Google’s product is free.
September 18th, 2007 by dactylmat
Lovely College Essay
September 18th, 2007 by mrshl
September 17th, 2007 by mrshl
Tonight is huge image night, I guess. Clicky for the full size.
September 17th, 2007 by mrshl
September 17th, 2007 by miles
A few posts ago, Marshall linked to a message board conversation concerning the nerdliness of Dungeons and Dragons. Here is a (seven-year-old) response to that.
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This should be quite familiar to any fan of table-top role playing games. Or to basically any geek who spent more Friday nights at a kitchen table covered with character sheets and multi-sided dice than in a parking lot smoking cigarettes and drinking Mad Dog 20/20. OH LIKE YOU WOULD PREFER THAT BETTER.
September 16th, 2007 by mrshl
The Old 97s - Question
Someday, somebody’s gonna ask you
A question that you should say “yes” to
Once in your life
Baby, tonight I’ve got a question for you
For a bizarre alternate YouTube video featuring the original, click here.