Archive for the 'Beyond Nerddom' Category

Gotwoot Stats Generation

Friday, February 10th, 2006

So I’m manually querying a backup copy of the gotwoot databases … Here’s some interesting stats so far… Total users registered: 10191. Users who’ve registered but never posted: 3046. Regged and posted once: 1887 Two posts: 979 3: 562 4: 412 5: 300 Total people who’ve posted, but posted less than 5 times: 3840 Total [...]

sexism even in manga?

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

So, I was just thinking about this … in the latest episode of Bleach, BleachSociety translates a line as something to the effect of “even though she’s a woman, she rose to the third seat” (so basically the person below the vice-captain of a court guardian squad). This is … interesting, because it implies that [...]

linguistic nitpick time

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

You know … a lot of people complain about the oh-so-common mix-ups in things like “their/they’re/there” “its/it’s” “then/than” “who’s/whose” and the ilk. But those usually show up in relatively informal media, or in the usage patterns of people who don’t (and probably never will) make their livings writing. One of the things that really cheeses [...]

Dragonballs as a bad idea

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

So … I was thinking a bit … In Dragonball/DragonBall Z, the whole system of Dragon Balls seems like an invention created to reward ruthless evil. Think about it …. In a world roughly evenly populated by people, with the dragon balls, are likely to fall in someone’s sight, somewhere. Especially if they’re meant to [...]