任是无情也动人

Funny stuff: 大侠就是我
蝶梦(穆杨) 焦版杨宗保

Also, want the mp3 version of this song: 只如初见. So far all I can find is the shorter female sang version.

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Misc refs...
BLD prequel ep guide

Because my internet is still not liking GW at the moment, I spent some time reading the endless articles at cracked.com - that place is as addictive as tvtropes can be. Anyways, some gems that I wanted to share:

9 Words That Don't Mean What You Think

8 Awesome Cases of Internet Vigilantism

7 Stupid People Who Sued the Scientific Method

6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain

5 Most Baffling Sex Scenes in History of Fanfiction

9 Awesome Places to Have Sex (and the Horrific Consequences) - wonder how many bad fics have run afoul of these? :P

Sent to me by someone from work...

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Written by an Associated Press journalist. Covers mainly the day to day stuff in Beijing rather than Olympics oriented. Looks like it's being updated daily. I found it hilarious.

linky

Note that the most recent entries are added at the top. So it may seem disjointed if you try reading it top to bottom instead of bottom to top.

I love the bit about getting his haircut from some overpass volunteer guard. "...I asked him, mainly through gestures, to do me." *snicker*

And the bit about Chinese men liking to roll up their shirts in the heat. (My dad does that at home sometimes too... -_-)

EDIT: HAHAHA! This one is hilarious too. Poor hockey teams and their mismatched undies. BWAHAHA.

I was reading the GWGuru forms and came across a post (from apparently a non-native English speaker) that started off with the following:

"Even when your armor is impregnated...the sheer sum of Mursaat and jade Armors in places like the Frost Forest or how its called in English...is somewhat of overwhelming..there helps your impregnated armor nothing..."

Me: *spittake*

Impregnated armor. LOL. XD

Swiped from the footnotes of a fic by Marns AKA Bumpkin. The fic itself was meh, but these notes certainly gave me a laugh. XD

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The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) produces RFC's (Request For Comments) which are basically used to set the standards for pretty much all of networking. They define protocols from the physical level up, security standards, and so forth, that have become standard use by everyone.

And then they turn out stuff like this:

A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service

Geek humor. :P

(More links from the wiki page for funny RFCs)

Hilarious article this time. Don't I wish I had one of these to do my MUD'ing for me. ^_^

And yeah, I think that the bot will probably appear a lot more human/intelligent than some actual "human players" in MMO games.

歪批西游 is a series of... well, not JttW fanfiction, but articles/opinion pieces on various characters and parts of the story. There's some humor/satire in it. I dunno how knowledgable is the author, and I don't completely agree with some of the sentiments in the articles, but I thought it was fun to read. ^_^

So we were driving home today and were at the stoplight close to home. When the light turns green, the AC transit bus in the next lane over *lurches* forward and spews out this thick cloud of gas.

My first thought: Well, clearly someone forgot to do their smog checkup. OMG my clean air!

And then we pass by the bus and I glance at it in the rear view mirror, and see that the top pipe-like part of the bus that spewed the gas... was in flames. Yes, it was on fire.

My second thought: ZOMG please don't let it blow up while I'm in the vicinity. *steps on accelerator*

My mom: WTF are you doing?

Me: Run away! Run away! Flaming bus!

Mom: What flaming bus?

Me: The one in the rearview mirror!

Mom: *turns and looks back* I don't see the bus. You sure you saw fire?

Me: What you think I could mistake it? And of course you don't see the bus given how I just zoomed outta there like a bat outta hell.

Mom: *proceeds to argue with me about the existence of fire on the bus that she did not see*

Then as we get home we could hear the fire engine alarms in the distance.

Me: AhA! See! See! I told ya!

Mom: How do you know it's sounding its alarms cuz of that bus? It couldn't have gotten word and got here that fast.

Me: *headdesk* I guess the concept of emergency response escapes you... =_=

I would kinda hope that the fire truck can respond in a timely fashion to a bus that is on fire in the middle of a very busy street during rush-hour traffic...

Also, note to self, avoid buses for the next however much time it takes me to forget this incident. :p

Reposted b/c cashew told me to. Plus a couple of edits cuz my fingers always type 10x faster than my brain.

Title (I guess this sort of counts as a fic?): PoT in 30 seconds
Author: Me
(Pretend I filled in all the other info fields here)
(Pretend I stuck the disclaimer here)

Sakuno: ano--

Echizen (interrupts): Mada mada dane

Tezuka: ...

Tachibana: *stares moodily at Tezuka*

Taka: Mars Fireball Make-up!

Mizuki: *wiggles fingers* Nfufufufu

Fuji: *opens eyes and fires lazer beams*

Atobe: *mauls Tezuka while Hyotei headdesks in background*

GP: Let's invite Momo to our orgy!

Kentaro: *spazz*

Kaidoh: Fssshhh... (translation: I thought I was supposed to play him?)

Jousei Shounen: *is ignored*

Sanada: Why do I have to play Tezuka's replacement?

Echizen: Oi! My show! *beats*

Inui: *shing!* Not according to the data I have on our audience demographic.

Kevin: Echizen! I will-- *is pounced*

Karupin: Mraoww

Fans: *scream incoherently*


The End

From an EG pseudo-fic on the bbs:

我家小白白啊～～名字叫做白玉堂，字泽琰。外号锦毛鼠。
不过，这个名字起的就不是太好。　因为从五行上来看：
玉字属金，堂字属土。泽字属水，琰字属火。
五行中单单缺了木。

(snip)

那么改成什么好呢？白是你的姓，不能改，含有五行的字也动不得～～那么就只有改外号了，“毛鼠”两个字也有“猫鼠”的谐音在所以也不能改。那么，我看就叫你“棉毛鼠”好了！

(snip)

——切忌高楼啊。
平时的住房就要小心，遇见含有“高”的楼房建筑，比如说冲霄，凌云的，千万、绝对不要乱闯啊！


...Note that 白玉堂 died infiltrating 冲霄楼. I have to wonder if his name was chosen for exactly the above purpose. But probably not since his earliest literary incarnation as a mouse-spirit probably didn't include 冲霄楼.

http://www.xiaoyaojing.com/wind/read.php?tid=32396

One of those water cooler stories... or in this case told by our Solaris instructor from Sun Microsystems during break time...

So he was contracted in to this global insurance company... Zurich or something unpronouncable like that. And on the day he got to the place (a Canada branch office or something), there was like 50 taxi's parked out back.

As it turns out, it was a day for layoffs... and people who were laid off were first escorted by security to their desk to have their passwords and stuff reset, and then out back into a taxi where they're sent off home. Of course they're free to get out a few blocks away and walk back to get their car which they parked at the company when coming to work...

All this so as to disclaim from any possible liability, insurance-wise, on their last day.

...

Yeah.

( 金庸小說翻成英文後 )

It was reposted there from some other place anyhow, so there shouldn't be any info ownership issues...

( BL漫画普遍规律150条 )

家国兼顾闪光辉，
破格用人有作为，
他也远去唯尔归，
一个足矣心愿遂，
舍去一半惠音徊，
几日不晴又涨水，
朋友半数不见回，
天鹅不日鸟远飞。

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宝
贝
你
不
会
没
有
我

Chinese puns are cool. Here's some more of 'em...

Been reading primary texts from Ancient China (about the Tang dynasty, though written later in Late Tang or Song). Man, it didn't pay to be in the government back then...

Wei Zheng: I suggest you kill your younger brother, like, now

Li Jianchen (the Heir): *wibbles* Um...

Li Shimin: OMG die! Emperor-ship, here I come!

Li Jianchen & Yuanji: *dies*

Wei Zheng: *in jail* I told 'em so. But do they listen? Noooo...

Li Shimin: *now Emperor Taizong* I like you. Wanna be in my inner-council-cabinet-of-advisors clique?

Wei Zheng: You suck.

Li Shimin: Right. You get to be my grand-vizier-type-dude.

Wei Zheng: ...

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Fang Xuanling: Um, I'd like to retire.

Tang Taizong: No.

Fang Xuanling: But I'm over 50. I'm old! Why don't I get to retire?

Tang Taizong: Are you senile? Gone stupid in your old age?

Fang Xuanling: ...I would like to say yes but my scholarly pride prevents me. Dammit.

Tang Taizong: Then no. Back to work with you!

Fang Xuanling: I'm starting to regret proposing that downsizing early in your reign.

Tang Taizong: Oh and here's some nice nick-nacks and more money for your long and loyal service and all that.

Fang Xuanling: ...

Wei Zheng: *hacks up a lung* Give it up, man. He's never letting us out of his clutches the cages court.

Tang Taizong: Oh, Wei Zheng, there you are. Here's some more jobs and responsibilities and all that.

Wei Zheng: ...

Tang Taizong: You get a promotion to go with it?

Wei Zheng: There's gotta be a way to get this disease to kill me. *hackcough*

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Right, totally should get back to work now.

More anecdotes from my lecture notes...

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I'm being amused by the oddest things...

So one of our homework assignments for cs162 was to sign up for a day to take lecture notes, which are then posted on the class website (and graded too). Naturally, some people take better notes than others.

Some people also take notes by taping the lecture and doing a verbatim transcription.

The latter are more useful when studying for exams, though, so we like these overly/obssessively complete neat-freaks. But it also means that in the middle of some stuff on Network Protocols, we get stuff like this:

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Now that I think about it, I was actually there for that particular lecture.

Be amused, dammit. :p

Grabbed these from some posts over on the Rumbles board.

The Laws of Anime

All I Ever Learned, I Learned From Anime

If I Ever Become an Anime Character

...Anime Villain

...Anime Magical Girl

Snippet from the villains list:

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I will remember: The plot is not on my side. There's no way that I can win, so I might as well have fun.

Whips are fun.

Chains are fun.

But they should be used sparingly unless I want to appear in yaoi fics for the rest of my born days.

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