::hides from work::

Because it makes me meh.

This is unnerving stuff:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060502.wdollar0502/BNStory/Business/home
I remember when the dollar was hovering around 60 cents.

So... I got bored last night and without internet and wanting to read something, I looked up a bunch of old RP logs. Read from... I think it was December 28 to the beginning of the fox misadventure (can't remember the date on that one. Mid January?). Interesting stuff, if mildly entertaining. I'd forgotten about some of the cute small things, like Lorna picking up a herd of men after walking down the beach (which grew larger with every post) and then throwing them off by giving them the number of a gay escort service. Fun stuff.

Language woes.

Language is an awkward thing. Well, more like kooky. I have a passing interest in it in general, mostly as a side to my interests in communications. Yeah, language is a part of it, although not all of it.

It should be known that I try to make sense of French packaging on my bus rides to and from work. What's "digital" in French? Numérique. It makes more sense than it should, when you break the word down. That's about the only way I can understand French; the process of deconstructing the word. I don't "get" broad generalizations.

Although, my boss mentioned there's reseach that claims you can, in theory, recall the languages your parents and grandparents spoke through the structure of the brain. It's a very out there idea and potentially means, depending on how far back you go, there is the chance that all languages are "unlockable" and that there could be one original mother language that all modern languages came from. However, I doubt it would take into account the evolution of languages and words. Chornobyl is a fun one. Originally means "mugwort". Now means "Big smoking radioactive hole in the ground". It's only been 20 years! Imagine how many years of twisted language there is in human history.

And to reward you for sitting through the ramble, BIG SCARY NORTH KOREAN ABANDONED HOTEL!!!!
http://theshapeofdays.com/2004/09/the_ryugyong_ho.html
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=39.03659,125.730699&spn=0.002942,0.006781&t=k
http://www.travel-earth.com/dprk/pyongyang/pyongyang-ryugyong.jpg
http://homepage3.nifty.com/dprk/ryugyong.JPG