A new year, a new blog color, some new projects and ideas. Hopefully everyone has had sometime off to reflect and ready to take on a new year. i'm excited.
see you soon....
---shawn---
Post 22- Happy New Year 09!
Happy New Year everyone!
A new year, a new blog color, some new projects and ideas. Hopefully everyone has had sometime off to reflect and ready to take on a new year. i'm excited.
see you soon....
---shawn---
A new year, a new blog color, some new projects and ideas. Hopefully everyone has had sometime off to reflect and ready to take on a new year. i'm excited.
see you soon....
---shawn---
from: Tomas
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:08 PM
subject: hanzi smatter
Hello, Thought I should send this contribution to your (awesome) blog. Found it on a Swedish community site, the proud owner of the tattoo claims that it says "GUN" (a Swedish female given name, not the thing you use to shoot people). I'm not good enough at Chinese to figure it out, but it seems like complete nonsense to me...
Since I was busy converting my DVD collection for Argosy HV358T-00500 HDD media player, I let Alan to take a crack at it:
Hah! How on earth is 巨臼内 supposed to be GUN? Is there yet another bogus "Chinese alphabet" out there?
巨臼内 means more like "inside the giant mortar." (Here, the "mortar" 臼 is the thing you use together with a pestle to crush things like grain or medicine. It is not the weapon.)
The things that people decide to get tattooed onto their bodies never cease to amaze.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:08 PM
subject: hanzi smatter
Hello, Thought I should send this contribution to your (awesome) blog. Found it on a Swedish community site, the proud owner of the tattoo claims that it says "GUN" (a Swedish female given name, not the thing you use to shoot people). I'm not good enough at Chinese to figure it out, but it seems like complete nonsense to me...
Since I was busy converting my DVD collection for Argosy HV358T-00500 HDD media player, I let Alan to take a crack at it:
Hah! How on earth is 巨臼内 supposed to be GUN? Is there yet another bogus "Chinese alphabet" out there?
巨臼内 means more like "inside the giant mortar." (Here, the "mortar" 臼 is the thing you use together with a pestle to crush things like grain or medicine. It is not the weapon.)
The things that people decide to get tattooed onto their bodies never cease to amaze.
If douchebags like Criss Angel and David Blaine are your type of heros, here is a video for you:
http://www.yourdailymedia.com/media/1230324928/Use_The_Force
Sensei Mike Capaldi breaks some wood pieces in shopping center's parking lot without touching them. Of all places, including his own studio and dojo; why would he perform this stunt on a sidewalk of some shopping mall?
By the way, even if the character 御 at the bottom right was not upside-down, the text still makes no sense in Japanese.
Alan's best guess is that they took the word Oseibo 御歳暮 (meaning "year-end present"), added a couple other characters for seasoning and mixed and mashed for a Japanese word-soup puree.
Tai-San style mind break, indeed.
I call it bullshit.
http://www.yourdailymedia.com/media/1230324928/Use_The_Force
Sensei Mike Capaldi breaks some wood pieces in shopping center's parking lot without touching them. Of all places, including his own studio and dojo; why would he perform this stunt on a sidewalk of some shopping mall?
By the way, even if the character 御 at the bottom right was not upside-down, the text still makes no sense in Japanese.
Alan's best guess is that they took the word Oseibo 御歳暮 (meaning "year-end present"), added a couple other characters for seasoning and mixed and mashed for a Japanese word-soup puree.
Tai-San style mind break, indeed.
I call it bullshit.