Saturday, April 26, 2014

Say What? (In Chinese)

In case you've ever wondered, as I often have "What the hell did they just say?" or Shenmen shi diyu tamen ye zhishi zuo zai?

Firefly's 15 Best Uses of Chinese Profanity (with translation and pronunciation guide)


Friday, April 18, 2014

Another Mother

Forget colonizing Mars! Let's up the budget on intergalactic jump gates and/or FTL space travel.

NASA's Kepler telescope finds 'the Holy Grail' Earth-sized planet

I vote we change its name from Kepler-186f to Herman (as in hermano or hermana), or just go for the incredibly fitting Alienae, which is Latin for "another mother." Then we could call whatever life is found there Alienaes.