A meme! A meme!

[oloriel]

But first: Quote of the Day!

(Queuing at the supermarket check-out, looking at an advertisement for - wait for it! - CURVED FRIES, how exciting - I overhear the following conversation between the gothicky teenage couple behind me.)
He: Der Wahnsinn. Fritten in Kurvenform. Welch eine Innovation. (My goodness. Curved fries. What an innovation.)
She: Ach, Kurven sind doch witzig. Ich könnte die Nullstelle und Höchst- und Tiefpunkt und Wendepunkte und so berechnen. (Awww, but curves are fun. I could calculate their root and maximum and minimum and inflection points and all.)
He: *laconically* Darauf hat die Welt gewartet. Mathe-Hausaufgaben zum Essen. (That's what the world has been waiting for. Maths homework you can eat.)
She: *cheerfully* Non scholae, sed vitae...

♥

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And a meme. (BTW, littleshebear, I'm still working on yours. It's harder than it looks like. >_>)

This one I caught via yoodi and vout.

1: Post this meme and your current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
2: Explain [vout version: in five sentences] why you're using that wallpaper.
3: Don't change your wallpaper before doing this. The point is to see what you had on.

My wallpaper. Yes, Windows Vista. Shut up.

This is a vista (SEE WHAT I DID THERE?) of King's College in Cambridge (as seen from roughly across King's Parade at Great St Mary's IIRC), with the Chapel looming on the very right. I am currently using this wallpaper because I fell in love with Cambridge a little bit when I was there in spring. I think this photo is one of my best Cambridge pics, even though I would have preferred using a less well-known college for my desktop. It serves (or is supposed to serve, anyway) as a motivation to do study-related stuff like work on my papers, because duh, CAMBRIDGE. Doesn't always work.



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And some fury.
Seen via flower_star: New baccardi ads are being particularly failworthy.
Flower and laurenia are already writing angry letters, I shall do so to when I have regained the ability to express my anger coherently. For now I can only say WTF. Oh, and FAIL. Massive fail.
*headdesks*

Comments

[gaharr.livejournal.com]

I'm going to sound like a complete ass now but...
I can live with vista, but please get rid of norton. Use antivir instead, or something, as long as it is not norton.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Now I am going to sound like a complete ass, but:
Would you mind explaining to the ignorant and technologically impaired, too lazy to browse through any expert forums just now, the problem with Norton?

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

Re: Baccardi - *facepalm*

[jassanja.livejournal.com]

Das waren noch Zeiten, als wir unsere Pommes selber kurven mussten!

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

Mathe zum Essen = made of win.

Baccardi ... I admit I'm tired, but I had real problems simply understanding the marketing message there. Words fail. Good thing there's no baccardi left in this household, I'd have to pour it down the toilet.

[arwensommer.livejournal.com]

I like the folder named "Alter Kram" :)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's where all the things lurk that I was too lazy to sort into more appropriate folders yet *shifty eyes*

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it has to do with Baccardi either. Except perhaps that you need to have drunk a lot of the stuff before dreaming up a marketing campaign like this?
Words are not the only thing that fails.