Darth Vader = (Dark) Weather (Swedish) I’m not sure about the roots of Darth, but it looks like a variation of Dark.
Han Solo = He Alone (Swedish/Spanish)
Luke Skywalker = English, duh.
Ben Obiwan Kenobi = Been (as in a has-been) … Cannot be
Obiwan is probably OB1, the same sort of play on letter and number sounds and 3Po/Threpio or R2/Artoo.
Obviously George Lucas stopped this naming system. Earth common names like Leia disappear from the rest of the movie.
UPS delivered two packages. One to my neighbor, who fortunately was honest, and another of my packages, apparently left for the dishonest neighbor to steal. So far it doesn’t look like T-mobile will hold me responsible for UPS losing the package, but this will delay me getting the phone for probably weeks. How T-mobile can run a business using shady operators like UPS, I don’t know.
This is the 2nd package lost to theft in the last few months. Who’s to blame? The landlord who won’t fix the lock on our building. The tenant that bust it because they are to cheap to get duplicate keys for their housemates. UPS for not getting a signature. USPS for likewise, not getting a signature. Me for trusting the whole system to work. The thieves also shoulder some blame, as do people who unwittingly buy hot merchandise. And the engineers and phone companies who designed phones to be locked to operation competition with on carriers’ networks, but not to prevent theft or tracing after theft.
And the Windows Mobile team deserve some blame, too. If Windows Mobile SDA wasn’t so frustrating to use, I wouldn’t be going through the hassle of switching to an Android phone to begin with.
Holidays. I regret not having spent Full Mug of Mayonaise Day in a more meanful manner.
Languages. My “Colloquial Mongolian” books arrived! Study groups will now begin in seriousness. I now manage 4 foreign language meetup groups– one is underactive (Norwegian) and two are doing just fine (Swedish and Icelandic). The new challenge is figuring out how to do more social events and find enough days to give each group enough attention. I’m thinking of permenatly moving the location of my events to places closer to where I live or work.
Media. I saw another three episodes of Dilbert, the cartoon. The very end of the season the show got increasingly surreal, which was a good thing. Too bad it was too late and the show was cancelled.
I saw Super Size me. Looking at McDonalds or smelling it used to just make me nauseous. Now it makes me nauseous and it makes my liver hurt. It is food only a Republican could love. I hope that the movie encourages increase sales of the crap to right winger their elimination from the gene pool in the long run would be a good thing.
Politics. Speaking of politics, Virginia has banned smoking in restaurants. When can I we start sending the cleaning bill for my cloths to smokers? If anything is surprising, it is that the we haven’t cracked down harder on the tobacco culture. It’s another habit only a Repuglican could love. I don’t mind Republicans smoking and dieing young, but I wish they’d commit suicide in a faster and cleaner fashion.
Tech. I’m giving up on my T-Mobile SDA and getting a T-Mobile G1 (the Google Android phone). More on that in a separate post.
Book Club. The book club is becoming a problem child. Normally I’d end the group and move on, but I want an excuse to keep reading Sci-Fi. Maybe I’ll do a book crossing event and see if that attracts anyone.
In case you are in Washington DC and are wondering what good it is to know Mongolian, well you can use it to listen to the radio. With this application, you can record it to an MP3 file and listen to it on the metro. And of course pop music from YouTube.
My books still haven’t arrived, I’m hoping they arrive before next Monday, ’cause I got a Mongolian study group posted for that day.