“Bill, we are not in New York.” “We’re not? Gee, and here I am mistaking the Museum of Yarn for the Guggenheim.”

broderic on September 13, 2024

Link of the Day [9.13.24]

I go to the bookstore almost every weekend. The same one I’ve been telling you about for the past 20 years. So I’ve accumulated a lot of books, and, confession time, I have maybe only read a tenth of what I’ve bought.

Sad. I know. It’s a sickness, but I can’t be helped. There’s a lot of things that look interesting to read, but not interesting enough to be read.

But that’s just not my problem only. Lots of people do the same. Ain’t that the joke — having books you haven’t read? Yup. So, there’s even a word for it in Japanese… let’s all learn it today!

https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/tsundoku/

Eye Test

broderic on December 10, 2017

Went for the annual eye exam this morning in the early snow.

Now lately, I’ve been trying to learn Japanese via the duolingo app. I’m on my longest streak of 8 days.

Anyhow, while sitting in the chair and looking at the eye chart, when the letters went fuzzy they looked like hiragana. So much so that I was really tempted to pronounce them when the doctor asked what I saw.

Maybe. Just maybe. I’m starting to learn Japanese.

Bookstore Haul II: Volume 2 — Useless Things

broderic on January 22, 2017

I should’ve made ‘buying books I don’t read’ one of my New Year’s Resolutions. I stopped into the old B&N and bought a couple of books. I wanted to pass the time and rack up some steps, but I ended up with a couple of books.

The first book is trying to get me to learn Japanese so that I can talk to my idols, Nogizaka46, at one of their handshake events in Japan. I would like to encourage them to do their best: 頑張って！ I’ve bought several books. And have yet to apply myself to reading and learning. At least I’ve got a little bit of hiragana and katakana, but without a vocabulary it will be difficult to understanding anything. Hope this book starts me off.

The second is learning about node.js. We’re using it at work. And I’m trying to figure out what it is. Will I be able to read it?

Japanese For Beginners by Sachiko Toyozato
Learning Node.js: A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications in JavaScript 2nd Edition by Marc Wandschneider