Random musings

[Tambourine Man]

A solid base in Spanish is a blessing/curse when teaching yourself French.

Try taking a French class from a horrible professor after taking years of Spanish and Latin. I wish I'd been teaching myself.

I can totally get that. Last night, I was checking into French classes at local JuCo's, but I'm not convinced that's the way to go. I'm only a few days into it, but the meat and potatoes seem to come pretty easy. Masculine/feminine and same spellings with different meanings will be a problem.

[MrCrowesGarden]

When you clean out all the hair that gets stuck in a vacuum cleaner... you become a vacuum cleaner.

[thrill]

[redbirdjazzz]

A solid base in Spanish is a blessing/curse when teaching yourself French.

Try taking a French class from a horrible professor after taking years of Spanish and Latin. I wish I'd been teaching myself.

I can totally get that. Last night, I was checking into French classes at local JuCo's, but I'm not convinced that's the way to go. I'm only a few days into it, but the meat and potatoes seem to come pretty easy. Masculine/feminine and same spellings with different meanings will be a problem.

To be fair, my teacher was a last minute replacement for the intended professor, and he really didn't have a clue how to handle a reading knowledge (rather than conversational) graduate class, but good grief it was bad. Just make sure the teacher you sign up for is a good one, and you'll be fine.

[Freed Roger]

court sentences with community service - I wonder what that means

[lukethedrifter]

anyone else notice how much Catherine Hanaway and Harry Hamm sound alike?

[Molly]

anyone else notice how much Catherine Hanaway and Harry Hamm sound alike?

No because of the "mute" button, thank god!!!

[Radbird]

Will my boss wonder why my productivity suddenly spiked beginning on August 13?

[Gashouse]

If you write the date in the most of the world does (D/M/Y), then today is 2^2 / 2^3 / 2^4

[thrill]

This is an extremely Portland story: http://jalopnik.com/modest-mouse-singer ... 1784817089