“Apart from the side-mounted railguns, I demand very little from my car but that it get me around in reasonable comfort and dubious safety.”
— J Greely, who has completely forgotten when, where, or why he said this
Baseball + Fist = Strip!
I’m tinkering with a web front-end for my new dictionary lookup tool, and every once in a while I stumble across something entertaining. I’m using full-text indexing (Sphinx) to create a half-assed English-to-Japanese dictionary out of the JMdict data, and one of the words I typed in was “strip”. There were 36 matching records, and one of them caught my eye: 野球拳, “strip version of rock-paper-scissors forfeit game”.
Standard rock-paper-scissors is じゃん拳. 野球 means baseball in every other compound word, but in this one case, it ain’t. I have no idea how it got that way, but this isn’t a dictionary error, as can be seen from this promotional video for the PSP game YA-Q-KEN (warning: poorly-subbed dialogue, delivered by really cute AV actresses). It appears to offer a total of 9 girls willing to work with their hands.
Dear Open Source community,
This is the sort of attitude that makes me want to bitch-slap some sense into the lot of you.
Dear Macports port maintainers,
Um, “fail”.
building 'pycurl' extension creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5 creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/src -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/python2.5 -c src/pycurl.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/src/pycurl.o unable to execute -DNDEBUG: No such file or directory error: command '-DNDEBUG' failed with exit status 1
