Search Results: danish

• 16 Aug 2020: Oh That Wacky Internet

  
  Links, Science: blog carnivals, Hans Island, Pluto, transphobia · 9 comments

  ...  No, and neither should you. Canadian geologist violates Danish sovereignty! - I am ashamed of my profession.* Is the Michigan Womyn's ...

• 31 Jan 2020: Procrastinating Things

  
  Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments

  ...  surprised that Ester's surprised that Fatah burned a Danish flag. Denmark's foreign policy may be sympathetic, and they sometimes ...

• 29 Oct 2020: Operation Frozen Beaver a Dismal Failure

  
  Politics: flags, Hans Island · 4 comments

  ...  Hans Island flag smushed; clearly Mother Nature recognizes Danish sovereignty: Like the Inukshuk, the flag left behind is unique, ...  ensuring it did not deteriorate in the high winds. [...] Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller told a Danish government committee ...

• 21 Sep 2020: Things, Awesome and Otherwise

  
  Links: bioluminescence, flags, genetic engineering, glow in the dark, Hans Island · no comments

  ...  the question of the sovereignty of Hans Island," the two [Danish and Canadian] ministers said in a joint statement after the ...

• 5 Aug 2020: Friday Miscellany

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments

  ...  we manage to reach the island, we will hoist a new Danish flag. We're trying to change the flags as often as possible because they ...  by the strong winds,'' Jensen said by telephone from the Danish navy base on Greenland's west coast. "As it looks now, the ice ...

• 24 Jul 2020: A Distribution of Props

  
  Personal: pie, thanksgiving, travelogue · 4 comments

  ...  Ms. Bookish, for an impromptu rendition of the Danish schoolchildren's version of various shinies at Rosenborg Slot, and for ...

• 17 Sep 2020: Rhetorical Gatekeeping, Gender, Etc.

  
  Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, gender, rhetorical tactics · 2 comments

  ...  euphemistically described as "quirky" or "jargony" or "Danish" (og selvfølgelig her snakker jeg ikke om virkelige dansker, men om mig ...

• 7 Sep 2020: Happy Arrival Day!

  
  Politics: booze, cultural appropriation, Judaism · 4 comments

  ...  Oktoberfest, everyone is German! In Solvang, everyone is Danish! The only other exception I can think of is some statements to the ...

• 19 Jul 2020: Actually I Always Expect Synchronicity

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  I was in Denmark my room back at Tech was occupied by a Danish mirror-self... Yup, he's got a blog! But is this sort of thing, as ...

• 14 May 2020: Hvid Chokolade delice “kronprinsparret”

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 3 comments

  ...  dessert, the Danish Kronprins Fred and his new wife are eating white chocolate mousse with ...

• 2 Oct 2020: i hovedet

  
  Human Fuzzies: Danish, phrasebooks · 8 comments

  ...  huvudet! Norwegian: Herre Gud! Jeg har en øks i hodet! Danish: Oh min gud! Der er en oekse i mit hoved. O bestly beloved Danish audience, do tell me that "I have an axe in my head!" ends on the ...

• 14 Aug 2020: Den Danskevalgen?

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  has an interview with "Ketchup" Carl Mehr, wherein the Danish-born candidate drinks morgenkaffe and reveals himself to be a ...

• 11 Jun 2020: Ah, My Virgin Eyes!

  
  Human Fuzzies: denmark, soccer · 5 comments

  ...  with Pia Kjaersgaard - not only can they not get the Danish names (understandable for Sørensen, more annoying for Gravesen) ...  Ever. They were clearly the strongest part of the Danish defense, bouncing those two shots off the post to get even for ...

• 27 Apr 2020: Ho Hum

  
  Personal: birthdays · no comments

  ...  while I'm in my room, and scrape the bottom of the "bad Danish rap, yodeling, and homework read aloud by a shoddy speech synth" ...

• 10 Apr 2020: A Flood of Someones

  
  Meta, Whimsy: candy, Christmas, fan mail, på dansk · no comments

  ...  ... men, kan pingviner rigtig lide øl? My poor Danish aside, the issue is this: shall we have a toast for the penguins? The ...

• 6 Mar 2020: Someone’s a Commercial Whore

  
  Meta: · 4 comments

  ...  "computer program" and "human" maps amazingly well to the Danish distinction between "neuter" and "common" nouns. The Sapir-Worf ...

• 16 Dec 2020: deck the halls with…

  
  Links: · no comments

  Danish search engines are getting more requests for Christmas than they are for porn ...

• 15 Dec 2020: mo’ betta’ meta meta burger

  
  Meta: Caltech, denmark, search requests · no comments

  ...  So last night I finally made it down to Istedgade with a Danish accomplice, who explained the hierarchy of Danish porn stars* to me and handled most of the talking (though I'm pretty ...

• 14 Dec 2020: filthy bloggish slime

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  the only foreign languages I randomly stumbled on were Danish and Norwegian, which is mildly disturbing. Not as disturbing as the fact ...  someone writing in, say, Basque, I'm curious. I'll take Danish as the dividing line between "obscure" and "common" languages - so do ...

• 7 Dec 2020: fra natbussen

  
  Personal: · no comments

  The first time I ever stayed up all night, I was like 13 or 14 or 12 or something. Maybe you can pin the time period down a little more precisely if I tell you that the driving forces behind this grand success were Sim City 2020 and the soothing rays from  ...

• 23 Nov 2020: synchronizing

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments

  ...  My internal calendar has finally come in line with the Danish holiday system. Now it is acceptable to see Christmas decorations ...

• 21 Nov 2020: joining my drunk…

  
  Politics: · no comments

  ...  will be a few Danish commiserators. You see, last year when it became clear that Bush was ...

• 20 Nov 2020: the 10-crown store

  
  Personal: search requests, socks · no comments

  ...  a cheap disposable tablecloth today so I went down to the Danish equivalent of the venerable Dollar General to hunt for one. Of course I ...

• 13 Nov 2020: solen skinner så meget

  
  Personal: · no comments

  I walked out of class today and there was this bright yellow thing hanging low in the southern sky, which was inexplicably saturated with blue and there was no water coming out of it either. At first I thought I had woken up in California and this had all  ...

• 4 Nov 2020: stop de kriminelle udlændinge

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  party is actually on the moderately conservative side of Danish politics, if you really want leftists here you're better off with one of ...  of a freeloading degenerate sucking off the cream of the Danish welfare state - yeah! I can't wait until the flyers from the Danish ...

• 3 Nov 2020: uhh. zog.

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  people, made them think I was cute for trying to speak Danish, had a good time. Also, I drank some lovely red wine - you know, the ...

• 2 Nov 2020: ympywyrmynt

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  into something empowering - just by doing it in Danish! Alternatively, making an international collect call to your credit card ...

• 29 Oct 2020: speakin’ the heathen chinee – part II

  
  Human Fuzzies: liberal guilt, tourism · no comments

  ...  and turned into, well, all those English-language ads on Danish television. And this brings on nebulous feelings of guilt. To be ...  but none of it's important, and I should really go do my Danish homework. Undskyld, kan du sige mig, hvor mange gange jeg skal klippe ...

• 28 Oct 2020: speakin’ the heathen chinee

  
  Human Fuzzies: globalization · 1 comment

  ...  a few redundancies and random nifty words put in. If my Danish teachers are representative, the word "sibling" will have vanished, ...  (the Danes are especially bad about this, probably because Danish doesn't conjugate). The details of this process, I'm not certain about, ...

• 24 Oct 2020: super stalker search!

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  that might disturb me - social security number, Danish CPR number, credit records, elementary school progress reports, the ...

• 12 Oct 2020: Back in Copenhagen

  
  Human Fuzzies: sandwiches, Scandinavia, smørrebrød · no comments

  ...  my methods of sandwich-making. You see, a great staple of Danish food is the smørrebrød, an open-faced sandwich on buttered ...

• 5 Oct 2020: Life in Copenhagen

  
  Aimless, Personal: · no comments

  ...  I'm being a smartass, I'll usually describe it as very Danish, which of course it is. I will go further and say that this city is ...  as hygge as a city can get, hygge being a classically Danish word that seems roughly equivalent to "warm and fuzzy". Also, nobody ...

• 24 Sep 2020: Juggling Cabbages

  
  Personal: cabbages, diary, juggling · 1 comment

  ...  into the dark rye shadow of rugbrød. Traditional Danish food is definitely something that needs to be taken in small quantities ...

• 20 Sep 2020: incommunicando

  
  Aimless, Whimsy: · no comments

  ...  arranged a retreat to a research cottage in the middle of Danish agricultural nowhere. It promises to be at the least an educational look ...  nematodes. Of course, yesterday I filled two pages of my Danish workbook with Sven the Danish Gangsta Sheep and variations on the phrase ...

• 10 Sep 2020: A Tibetan Lesson

  
  Human Fuzzies: pronunciation, tibetan · no comments

  ...  Read cmd -> Next That's it. No more whining about Danish. Henceforth, I will merely be grateful that I'm not trying to learn ...

• 7 Sep 2020: smoke-clogged lung

  
  Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment

  ...  medium-sized, and furnished with clever and comfortable Danish things that could have come from Ikea, if Ikea had completely awful ...  happens to come from Caltech as well, the rest of whom are Danish. It provides a bright social space in my otherwise dim and solitary ...

• 6 Sep 2020: outside my window

  
  Personal, Politics: · no comments

  ...  old Nazi weapons testing ground (it was also used by the Danish military in the 60's... but that's not quite so exciting). Unlike many ...

• 4 Sep 2020: train tracks

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: concrete walls, graffiti, keyboards, kudzu, post-apocalyptic aesthetic sensibilities, sweetness and light, trains, weeds · no comments

  The train tracks along Øster Voldgade are beautiful when empty, running between concrete walls covered in fading graffiti and home to a small brigade of little green weeds. I almost feel bad that they run trains through the place; it completely ruins the  ...

• 3 Sep 2020: it almost makes sense…

  
  Meta, Personal: · no comments

  ...  half of the lecture was in English, and the second half in Danish. It was actually rather exciting: based on important key words like ...  abreast of most of the lecture and even learn a few new Danish words along the way. Useful everyday words, like silicon, carbon ...

• 2 Sep 2020: redesign

  
  Meta, Personal: blogtinkery, introspection · no comments

  ...  especially since so many of my shiny new friends from Danish class had left for Prague or Budapest or Hamburg or someplace. Riding ...

• 30 Aug 2020: Roskilde

  
  Personal: · no comments

  ...  some old viking ships, and a church with lots of dead Danish royalty inside. As fascinated as I was by the sight of really old wood ...

• 27 Aug 2020: jeg kan godt tale dansk!

  
  Human Fuzzies: Danish · no comments

  ...  have finished my three week intensive Danish course. To show for it, I have a nice little certificate, and three ...

• 22 Aug 2020: One True Blog

  
  Personal: · 2 comments

  ...  I was shocked to realize that I only have two more days of Danish classes before it's the weeklong, pre-semester break. I want to travel ...

• 20 Aug 2020: please, please

  
  Human Fuzzies: Danish, language quirks, manners · no comments

  ...  Danish language has no word for "please." There are various ways to politely ...

• 14 Aug 2020: rødgrød med fløde

  
  Human Fuzzies: Danish, pronunciation · 1 comment

  ...  less impressive when you get there. "rødgrød" - the Danish R is to be produced with a bit of a rasp in the back of the throat, but ...  a G in front of it. "med fløde" - we do an exercise in Danish class where we cross out all the letters of a word that aren't ...

• 13 Aug 2020: aha! an American!

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish, tourism · no comments

  ...  the street on my way home yesterday, and said something in Danish. He was probably just asking why I didn't have an umbrella (because, ...  named Morris. I can't decide if it's the nature of the Danish language, or just my own ...

• 7 Aug 2020: In Copenhagen

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish · no comments

  ...  great. The punctuation on the Danish keyboards has been displaced by the extra letters in their alphabet (æ, ...

• 29 Jul 2020: leftover stuff

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

  ...  at the University of Copenhagen. I speak hardly a lick of Danish, but most classes are offered in English and I'll have three weeks to ...