michael lambe's scrapbook

Here I am sitting at home on a Friday night prepping prepping prepping. This is my life. The other day a couple of the students in my very most favoritest class were asking me the meaning of various English expressions current in Japanese pop songs. They would write them down and then hold them up to me with a questioning look. Finally, one girl held up a piece of paper saying “Have you fun day” or something garbled like that. Finally I realised she wasn’t asking about a song lyric but asking me if I’d done anything fun lately. And do you know… I couldn’t think of a damn thing. (Sigh)

Here’s a couple of things that made me smile today though.

First a fine collection of chat-up lines for geeks: I don’t have a library card, but do you mind if I check you out? I reckon I’d have a hard time translating those into Japanese though…

And I don’t know about you but I have long pondered on this question: if a world class champion race-walker was suddenly in immediate life-threatening danger (say from a bunch of crazed sword wielding samurai for example) would he continue walking quickly to escape or would he run like the clappers? The answer my friends is merely a click away: LINK