bahahah

[trochee]

in the spirit of embracing my own perfectly peculiar pleasures:

Linguist Jokes (4) had me giggling.

And I want doors like this everywhere I go. (via Boing Boing).

ETA: Lorenzian waterwheels, via a tip from dorkbotsea-blabber. And Laser fretboards for theremins, via Clever CS. (The Dorkbot guys should have seen this before building a laser harp!) Also Seattle power tools races (this July! as advertised: "stupid fun!")

Comments

[isolt.livejournal.com]

Wow, my knowledge of syntax isn't sufficient to enable me to get that joke. Damn.

And, curses, I'm 99% certain that door's in Tokyo where I can't readily visit it... :(

[trochee.livejournal.com]

well, the "answer" doesn't answer the question. But it analyzes the question, rather too well. And by doing so, it gives the meta-answer: sometimes syntacticians (linguists in general?) don't do anything, they just analyze analyze analyze.

If you do get to see that door, take pictures!