Haiku is a mode of Japanese poetry, the late 19th century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the older hokku,the opening verse of a linked verse form, haikai no renga. The traditional hokku consisted of a pattern of approximately 5, 7, 5 on. The Japanese word on, meaning “sound”, corresponds to a mora, a phonetic unit similar but not identical to the syllable of a language such as English...
After a neighbor started stealing Pete’s wifi bandwidth, he decided to have a little fun. To give you some idea of the mayhem he caused, he: Sent all website traffic to the kittenwar website Flipped all of the images and text on the websites the neighbor was visiting, so that they were upside down and mogrified the images to appear blurry Out-freakin’-standing. Go here and learn how...
I was in the drug store the other day, looking for a variety of personal items (toothbrush, toothpaste, that sort of thing – nothing girlyicky, not that it matters.) They had moved the aisle for the depilatory creams and wax a while back, and despite my hour of aimless wandering, I still couldn’t find it. There was, of course, not a floor employee to be found anywhere, so I continued...
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