All these years of thinking that an artificial “world” language drawn from a few tongues spoken in one corner of that world was about as useful as Klingon. But it turns out I was wrong. Yakult, everyone’s favorite probiotic drink in the tiny plastic bottle, got its name from jahurto, an archaic Esperanto word meaning [...]
Archive for November, 2006
PS3 auctions followup
Saw a post on the Ars Technica forums from a person who dug up the 2channel thread where people are organizing their assaults on the PS3 auctions. Peek at it here if you’ve got the Japanese skills. You can also click here to see the highest-priced bids in the system right now. Looks like a [...]
PS3 units all going straight to Yahoo Auctions
This is an interesting read. The PS3 launch happened yesterday morning, and it was all over the news . . . Crowds of people lining up for hours in the predawn dawk of Yurakucho to get the goods from Bic Camera. Excited gamers who couldn’t wait to get their hands on the latest and greatest—to [...]
More Tolkien homes
A while ago I mentioned the Tolkien-themed housing units going up in central Oregon. Turns out those were pretty cheap, though, compared to the price for the home where Tolkien actually lived. A bungalow once owned by the author of The Lord of the Rings has gone on the market for £1 million. The three-bedroom [...]
Costume photos
Each year a bunch of us from the company (current and former) get together at the home of the person with the largest home for a Halloween party. Sometimes this is right around Halloween (this year it was a few days later, on Friday) and some years it’s much later. Once it was close to [...]
