TIL - 190404

Today I learned:

  • ...that the word "bread" in Japanese (パン) and French (pain) have the same etymology. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Please Vote. Please Vote Liberal.

This election campaign feels like a long one but only some weeks have passed. Polling numbers are like a roller-coaster for the past two years, and like them my intention to have a written monologue comes and goes. I have to get rid of the electoral anxiety in some ways; so here we are. This wall of text should've been completed weeks ago but only made available now thanks to the Conservatives deliberately withheld releasing their costed platform until the last day of advance voting. In any case, I hope that this completely subjective passage can be a little bit persuasive and helpful.  We just went through patches after patches of bumpy road since the last election. Suddenly, we Canadians find ourselves being attacked in all directions: Trump and his lunatic policies that ended a decades-old period of economical and political non-conflict between US and Canada; China eyes on Taiwan and beyond, challenging the free and open Indo-Pacific and Canada's gateway to the Pacific; Russ...
Read more

Public transit BC

1. Island Saturday 10:52 Government / Superior ----- 66 CVX -----> Duncan Train Station 12:14 [BCT Cowichan V] 12:35 Canada / Station ----- 70 NCX -----> 13:43 Downtown Nanaimo Exchange [BCT RDN] Downtown Nanaimo --- RDN ---> Woodgrove Exchange 14:40 Woodgrove Exchange --- 9 ---> Ravensong Exchange (Qualicum Beach) 15:35 16:54 Ravensong Exchange --- 99 ---> Crome Point Rd (Deep Bay) 17:47 17:52 Crome Point Rd --- 10 ---> Cliffe / 4th (Courtney) 18:38 [BCT Comox V]  Sunday Courtney/Comox Monday 13:30 Cliffe / 4th (Courtney) --- 12 ---> Glenmore / Island Hwy (Oyster River) 14:04  14:13 Glenmore / Island Hwy (Oyster River) --- 6 ---> 14:29  Erickson / S Island Hwy 15:30 --- 3 ---> CRCC 15:57 [BCT Camp R] Tuesday 13:50 CRCC (Campbell River) ----- Island Bus: 1908-H -----> Kwa'lilas Hotel (Port Hardy) 16:40 Wednesday  (* Not available on W every week; alt. overnight in Port McNeill ) 07:30 Port Hardy ----- BCF:10 -----> Prince Rupert ...
Read more

Dragon年大型衣逼老干部审美评价报告

Image
前情提要： 癸卯 、 壬寅 Part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeFpKwfA3mQ 0:00 又到了一年一度的难绷时节，今年又有什么心梗发布呢？ 0:05 岳云鹏（幻视 0:06 六秒就出现了第一个gender stereotype，老师只能是女生，战士只能是男生 0:11 是不存在的（即答 0:18 草，原来不是幻视 0:49 应该是一年一度的“不cue一下你们殖民东突会死吗”环节，等下，先查一下迈丹在哪里     在Qizilsu，对的，下一题 2:19 广告怎么不是习酒，都龙兴大大了 2:21 全网呼叫温约瑟找出来这间宿舍在哪里 2:44 喀什分会场？？？真的是把集中营头蹦迪发挥到了新高度          再说了，Qashqar 跟 Kizilsu也得有点距离吧，您这不还是异地吗          这个天际线一眼望去竟然看不到一个清真寺、宣礼塔，这还是Qashqar吗？ 2:52 啊，范伟旁白吗？我竟然没听出来 3:11 观众离得倒是挺近，不过是不是有些刻意？          开局2 x （中国台湾），看来得创新纪录 4:30 不好意思，刚走神了，还在这个节目吗？ 4:36 2008年至今唯一想得出的排场就是这种百人大节目，所以呢？为什么？ 4:45 意义不明 5:01 这符合周礼吗？（ 5:41 今年的dancing minorities环节竟然来得这么快，我甚至都没有准备好 5:45 这取景不是跟 《党的政策亚克西》陈全国版 是一个地方吗？ 5:57 这种blunt Han-washing实在是让本席身心不适，还得为了research purposes看下去，难受 6:56 原本听这个鼓声感觉是不是曲风会更正常一些，开口了发现并没有 7:24 这么多人认 出来俩，李雪健老师、沙溢 7:36 一会儿提醒我去考证一下这个金文/甲骨文的龙字 7:37 甲骨文一转隶书，小篆呢？ 8:26 So what is the significance of them on the stage? 8:34 起猛了，听到李咏主持了 9:04 小撒这...
Read more