wednesday, april 07, 2004
ha ha those scandinavians
boingboing reports an “oddly-named IKEA work bench”: fartfull.
my mom likes to tell the story of some distant childhood neighbor who was from norway, or had norwegian parents, or something.
he wanted a bicycle. he really wanted a bicycle. he saved up money and one day he had enough to buy a bicycle. he went to the bicycle store and excitedly picked out a bicycle. he jumped up and down and asked the store clerk, “does it go fart? does it go fart?”
yeah…the clerk looked at him weird.
“fart” means “speed” in norwegian (and swedish). he was so excited, he forgot the english word.
submunition has more funny names, including the “jerker” computer table.
sarah (my older sister) once told me, when we were in IKEA one afternoon, that the product names sound like a swedish-american trying to sound like a swedish person trying to sound american.
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wednesday, november 05, 2003
yasd
my nethack game was going nicely (even had a gray dragon scale mail from a wish), and then i choked while eating a fire giant corpse. level 14, 122479 points. not bad. i should know better than to continue to chomp on big corpses while satiated, though…
i’m still playing 3.3.1. i even play 3.2.2 when i’m at my mom’s house & the possibilities of her grape imac (with mac os 8.5.1) are otherwise exhausted. i tried 3.4 a while ago, but the os x version wasn’t great…i should eventually try it again.
- which nethack monster are you? - i’m a unicorn/water nymph ;)
- nethack for the ti-83 - whoa. awesome.
- nethack fan fiction - eep!
best computer game ever.
