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Stupid List: Bond Movies Sorted by Syllable Length

1. (0)

2. (2) Skyfall, Spectre

3. (5) Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Moonraker, GoldenEye

4. (3) Live and Let Die, Octopussy, License to Kill

5. (9) From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace

6. (3) Diamonds Are Forever, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough

7. (2) Never Say Never Again, The Man With the Golden Gun

8. (0)

9.(1) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

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October 29, 2012

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Short List: Staying Optimistic After Being Stood Up Songs

1. Four of Two – They Might Be Giants

2. Madeleine – Jacques Brel

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November 7, 2011

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The History of Spanish in 10 Words

I have written or presented about this topic at least 3 times in school, and it still amuses the hell out of me. I have distilled it down to 5 words, but I just found a paper that lists the whole 10, and I think it’s worth recording these down while the information still bubbles and frolicks around for me when I talk about it.

1. Fabular

-Spanish is one of the Romance languages which means it comes from Latin. Other Romance languages include French, Italian, Romanian, Catalan, and Portuguese, unfortunately.
-Fabular means ‘to tell a tale,’ which has morphed over the years to become the verb hablar, to speak. There are many words which begin with ‘f’ in Latin that changed to ‘h’ in modern Spanish. Exceptions are words with a diphthong after the ‘f’ like fuente (fountain), fuerza (force), and fuego (fire). [and then suddenly…]

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March 21, 2011

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Alphabet Souperhero: Revision

A Ace from The Ambiguously Gay Duo on SNL cartoon
A Action Man from Venture Bros. show
A Alpha One from DC comic
A Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon
A Aisha from Neopets website
A Amazigirl from Dumbing of Age webcomic
A Animal Man from DC comic
A Anvil from Grrl Power webcomic
A Apocalypse from Marvel comic
A Aquaman from DC comic
A Avalanche from Marvel comic
A Captain America from Marvel comic
A Emperor Awesome from Wander over Yonder cartoon
A Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter book

[and then suddenly…]

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February 23, 2011

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Podcasts that Inspire Me

1. Cool Hunting
Best Episodes: Ian Hundley, BAP Lap Part 1, Okamato Studio, Social Suicide, Troika, Jill Greenberg, Jose Parla, To Catch a Web Part 1, Gelitin, Y.A.C.H.T.