August 2006

Language LOL

<cortex> lol stynxno doesn’t know language log rofl
<cortex> language log is language lol
cortex is now known as GeoffreyKPullum.
<GeoffreyKPullum> Kids today!
GeoffreyKPullum is now known as ArnoldZwicky.
<ArnoldZwicky> I’m gay and smart!
ArnoldZwicky is now known as MarkLiberman.
<MarkLiberman> Bush lol
MarkLiberman is now known as RogerShuy.
<RogerShuy> My tone doesn’t really fit the site!

who the fuck brought this motherfucking beverage on this motherfucking plane?

the new, liquid threat to air travel: shakes on a plane

stringent requirements

  1. Are you afflicted with any transmissible disease?
  2. Are you weak-minded, insane, of unsound mind or under guardianship
    as a person of unsound mind?
  3. Are you under the influence of any intoxicating liquor or narcotic
    drug?
  4. Are you related to each other in any way?
  5. Has either of you been married before?

7 years ago I’d probably have gotten funding.

dmd: oh DAMN, my domain idea is taken
dmd: i had the most awesome idea. i was going to make a fake front page for “squandr.com”, kind of like isolatr.com, only this would be a Web 2.0 social-venture-capital thing where people could see things like
dmd: “The two million dollars you dropped last week on that promising startup has now been spent on twizzlers.”
[Shoegazer]: haha
[Shoegazer]: shitty that it is taken
dmd: and “Product has been in beta for 4 years. Do you wish to short / sell / buy … ”
[Shoegazer]: ahaha
dmd: “This San Francisco based firm’s product is still secret, but they’ve spent $1.7 million on launch parties. Must be good. Time to buy.”