Yo, I ain't down.

be down chiefly slang supporting or going along with someone or something : “You going to the movies?” “Yo, I'm down.”

be down on informal disapprove of; feel hostile or antagonistic toward.

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An afternoon reading about Ladakh and then watching a certain televised address has got me down on (as opposed to down with) Western values.

*sigh*

Fíjense que no hay pupusas aquí

Sadly, it seems there are no pupusas in Milwaukee after all. As a consequence, you are spared from reading me go on about how darn expensive they are and how they just aren't the same as the ones in El Salvador.

If you are ever even remotely unsure whether or not somewhere you plan to visit is still in business, call ahead. Trust me, it is well worth the 45 seconds it takes. Oh, and don't blindly trust Google Local. Even he makes mistakes.

Ahh...all was not lost, though, as I got to enjoy a good cup of vegan chili in Bay View and some very high quality Spanish-language music. (Jorge Drexler's Eco - I'm listening to it now for the third time through and it is good.)

Trademark

Today on my really cool customized Google homepage, I saw this somewhat humorous encoding mixup:



I just thought it would be funny if "Making the world a better place™" was actually a registered trademark of Bahá'í youth everywhere.

Well That Was Fun

Tonight I went with Andrew and Emily to see Willy Porter at the Cedarburg Cultural Center. It was good (but long! I was gifted tickets to two back-to-back benefit shows for the Wisconsin Humane Society).

Afterwards the freeway was closed so we had to devise an alternate way to traverse the city and reach Bay View. After dropping Emily off, we drove a few blocks and decided we were hungry. I pulled over and shot Google a text message looking to locate a George Webb's nearby. I got an address, but the subsequent request for directions was denied. Whatever, we kept driving.

We got over to the east side and after I very nearly drove us straight into a crowded one-way for which the light was about to turn green, and then we witnessed a very angry homeless man shouting at someone, we stopped at Ma Fischer's for a 1:30am meal. I got a quesadilla and Andrew got a breakfast special. He didn't want eggs, however, and so he requested french fries in their stead. This led to a long and frighteningly in-depth conversation, littered with economic terms, about the various costs associated with making french fries as compared to eggs.

It was great.

Ill Logic Board

So, my computer picked a fairly inconvenient time to fail me. Last night the screen began to flicker wildly and then froze. After a restart, the display no longer came on at all. Luckily, my model happens to be covered under the iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program, and will be repaired free of charge by Apple.

Tonight I wrote a paper with a pen, on paper. It was weird.

Beh Loghmân pand âmukhtan

Quite possibly the funniest dictionary entry ever written:



UPDATE!

I had no idea that "teaching one's grandmother to suck eggs" was an actual English idiom. The Persian phrase in the dictionary (Beh Loghmân pand âmukhtan) means "to give Loghman advice", which corresponds to the English idiom's meaning, which is to offer advice to an expert.

Teach not thy parent’s mother to extract
The embryo juices of the bird by suction.
The good old lady can that feat enact,
Quite irrespective of your kind instruction.

Ladrones Desnudos

Something rather amusing happened in El Salvador. The funniest part (to me at least) is that both of them have Ninja Turtle names.

I was pretty proud of myself last year when I figured out that Miguel Ángel = Michael Angel = Michelangelo.

the valley of misery and shame

Despair/Hope

Quotes About Men

There were a few nice quotes of the day on my personalized Google homepage today:

"The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."
- William Hazlitt