Oh yeah, I love some of the stuff Vertical puts out, too.

Someone's uncle's wife's son's dog is trying to confirm the the nonexistance of some imaginary files but can't quite figure out how to go about that. I imagine he'd be quite grateful if someone would kindly not point him in the wrong direction.

nadiatims wrote:

Someone's uncle's wife's son's dog is trying to confirm the the nonexistance of some imaginary files but can't quite figure out how to go about that. I imagine he'd be quite grateful if someone would kindly not point him in the wrong direction.

Megaupload is a filthy, filthy site full of pirated works. I absolutely do not condone it.

But what I do find interesting is that every download URL share the same characteristic. They all start like this www.megaupload.com/?d= followed by assorted random letters/numbers

I wonder who decided it should be like that? And I wonder what would happen if you were to put the random letters from nestor's tinyurl (http://snipurl.com/0HGQZSRO) right after the = sign of a megaupload URL?

Last edited by blackmacros (2010 February 22, 6:16 am)

Whenever I read this thread, I feel like my keyboard is actually a giant insect.

hereticalrants wrote:

I want to learn obscure technical vocabulary.  Where should I start?

....kidding.

How about...

Crazy people?
Magic swords?
Leprechauns?
Flying Spaghetti Monsters?

I think those are in all of them. Those wacky Japanese! I'm actually, re: technical vocabulary, looking into nonfiction, slowly but surely, but taking my time sorting resources and links because I'm not there yet. Also, I should probably organize a more minimal and clear list of some of the most interesting/germane books I found...

thekonfuzed wrote:

Crazy, I had the same dream about viruses as somebody else. Luckily some people here are great at interpreting dreams. I wish I could thank the guy who lent me a book in the dream, but unfortunately I woke up.

Who says you're awake now? /clawed glove

Also, @blackmacros: I can't believe it. You named names. First rule of Innocent Book Club...

hereticalrants wrote:

nest0r wrote:

re: technical vocabulary, looking into nonfiction, slowly but surely, but taking my time sorting resources and links because I'm not there yet.

The key word there was "obscure."  I actually DO want to learn... how do you say... NONobscure technical vocab.

Whenever you read nonfiction about stuff that´s actually interesting you pick up some technical vocabulary.  If the book was written for a layman, then everything is explained nicely, as well.

...but my Japanese isn´t even at that point, yet.

I just decided to interpret 'obscure' as being relative to novels, as you say, you pick it up as you use/encounter it, so. But it reminded me, I've been steadily collecting links and noting publishers and locations to acquire nonfiction such as technological, historical, theoretical, philosophical, biological, &c...

Speaking of picking things up, my skimming skills have really improved lately without my realizing it, through this whole book process. Gives me some ideas for new exercises to try (timed pattern recognition or somesuch in blocks of text)... And another tangent (from 'exercises') -- http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=2526 (japanese crossword puzzles) ... Maybe Japanese word-searching is something to check into...

Bonus tip, in case others have trouble generating text lists from metaphorical collections of Japanese files, and the usual DOS thingy doesn't work: If you have Ken Rename, you can navigate through it to the desired folder, select all, and copy to a little box area, then copy/paste to a text editor.

Last edited by nest0r (2010 February 22, 7:25 pm)

Something here seems a little fishy... must be all the fish you are all eating from trying to do full immersion. Yeah, that must be it.

Hypothetically, this is a very interesting, educational, and informative thread. In an alternate universe where it is not, in fact, a discussion about the evils of book piracy vis-a-vis the internet. In fact, alternate universe version of me would go so far as to stroke his goatee and high-five nest0r.

Just edited my first post. I'm sorry, but the first two examples simply weren't random enough. I got the feeling that something was being done to tarnish them somehow. Be sure not to try and warp these links to your evil will this time please, some of us are decent folk who just want to innocently discuss Japanese learning materials and self-study tips.

Example of how fascinating custom shortened URLS can be when they resemble random alphanumeric strings from sites that rhyme with 'sega pup toad': http://snipurl.com/GJV2ZY6W

@hereticalrants: For vertical text in Word, you go to Format-->Text Direction and select whatever it lets you select. So if you run balloonguy's ルビ macro and want it with vertical text, be sure to do the vertical first, else you'll have sideways furigana. ;p

ninetimes wrote:

nest0r that article is fascinating.  What a great read.

Quite! And oh, hereticalrants, I can't remember if I had to enable that somehow in Word or if it happened automatically once I installed East Asian languages in general, but here's one guide on how to enable it I think: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/ … 61033.aspx