We (a bunch of people from the company) went to Naeba over the weekend. Photos are available over here. It’s mid-February and we had late-April conditions. The temperature got up to about 15 degrees, and we were slushing through this heavy slurpee crap. My backpack filled up with everyone’s extra layers of fleece and gore-tex, [...]
Archive for February, 2004
Translation sample
I have students who clamor for a look at “real translations.” They want to see how pros do it. So I put up a translation I did a few years back for a magazine that now lives only online. You can see the work right over here. Check it out if you’re interested in recent [...]
DEAR SIR OR MADAM
DEAR SIR OR MADAM THIS MISSIVE MAY SURPRISE YOU COMING AS IT DOES FROM A PERSON UNKNOWN TO YOU. MY NAME IS PETER DURFEE CURRENTLY IN TOKYO JAPAN, WHERE MY FATHER WAS IN CHARGE OF A FAMOUS AND EXCELLENT VOLLEYBALL PROGRAM IN THE PAST. WHILE MY FATHER WAS IN POWER HE RECEIVED THE CONSIDERABLE SUM [...]
Silly software firm
All right, so Panic is a company that makes some good stuff for OS X, in particular a program called Transmit, which I use for all my FTP adventures. But I was poking around the company site today and I found this silliness right here . . .
Too late for this?
Well, just when I get this MT thing figured out and get ready to fix up the styles and start posting (yeah yeah, I’ll get around to it right after I finish doing this proofreading and correcting this homework and drinking this beer and taking my hardcore charged-bolt sorceress up against Nightmare Diablo) I learn [...]
