Browser memory meme

[hellison]

Stolen from vashti and Caramel Betty

Yeah another meme. I should probably invent Exciting Events to write about instead, but that would take effort. Anyways...

Use the autocomplete function of your browser. Type in each letter of the alphabet, and see what the first website it provides is. Delete and repeat, so you cover all the letters of the alphabet. No need to link to the exact page. If it's not work-safe, or inappropriate for some reason, say so. If there's nothing showing, say that too.


A - Amazon
B - bash.org - work won't let me go to this one because it has been classed as 'tasteless and offensive'. Woe.
C - carmine.fotopic.net
D- http://dictionary.reference.com/
E - eatin.fotopic.net
F - http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/nursery_rhymes/humpty_dumpty.htm
G - google
H - http://www.htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest?u=newtonemerson&i=1&a=view - 'letters page' of www.portadownnews.com
I - http://images.google.co.uk/
J - http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/ - for when I get REALLY bored
K - empty
L - livejournal - now there's a shock
M - http://www.mdload.com/cc/notthillgate.jpg - pic of that 'no running' train sign that was everywhere last week
N - http://news.bbc.co.uk
O - http://www.okcupid.com/tests/list I get bored a LOT
P - http://www.penny-arcade.com
Q - http://quizfarm.com
R - only thing that came up here was Recycle Bin
S - http://scene.pgpl.net
T - http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/comments.php?entry_id=7394 - the whole Pterry is EVIL AND MUST DIE debate from the potter maniacs
U - empty
V - empty
W - http://www3.open.ac.uk/ open university
X - empty
y - empty
Z - empty



Not sure what the point of that is, but it did fill up the end of lunchtime :p

Comments

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

It lets us see the fun/wrong things you do on your computer that you don't ever tell anyone about.

Like, I never knew you read The Leaky Cauldron. Never would have guessed. Or anything to do with the OU.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Well I only read the Leaky Cauldron thing for the first time this week cos someone linked to the whole Pterry OUTRAGE thing ;)

And the OU was a notion inspired by Miv to see what they have on offer. They're damn expensive!

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. Well, they vary a bit, but it actually works out a lot cheaper than doing an MA or MSc or whatever at an okay University, typically, or at least no more expensive, and you have the option of doing it in dribs and drabs. (So you can tighten your belt over Christmas, say, and pick it up again next year.)

My major beef with them is that I can't find something I really want to do, but I do want to do something useful / interesting / challenging, edjumerkayshun-wise.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

The most interesting one I spotted was a Classic Studies one, which included a course on reading ancient greek and one on latin. The whole thing looks pretty intensive tho (not to mention expensive), and only starts at level 2.
Plus not sure I want to fork out all that monies for what will, for some parts anyway, be more a refresher course than new learning.

I might consider just doing the greek tho, haven't done that before.

[whit-merule.livejournal.com]

greek is fun. and it doesn't actually take that long to get used to readin gthe alphabet - especially in lower case, because many of the letters are a similar shape to ours and so the shape of the overall words doesn't look to unfamiliar, once you get past the whole OMG FORN stage.

and like any language, especially one that has had a strong influence on the development of modern ones, there are interesting juicy little bits here and there. Like, the word 'aristos' - from which, obviously, we get aristocracy &c - actually means very good. I'm not sure to what degree that's a moral comment and to what extent it's more a quality thing - I think it's a bit of both - but either way I love it. :)

and then little things like the fact that they didn't have a letter for H, though obviously they had the sound (Homer, Hector &c). But you'll notice it only ever occurs at the start of words. This is because they don't consider it a consonant, but a particular way of breathing. As far as they're concerned, Homer and Hector do begin with vowels. They're written (damn lack of greek alphabet) OMEP and EKTOP (where P is R) - but for every word in ancient greek that starts with a vowel, the type of breathing has to be indicated - rough or smooth - and this is done with a little accent over the vowel which looks sort of like a curly comma or apostrophe. Opening backwards it's a smooth breathing (as in aristos - just the straight vowel) and opening forwards it's a harsh breathing - the sound which we've decided is a letter, and called H.

I think that's fascinating. :)

hey, i'm a singer. :) it actually helps me relate an initial H when it begins a phrase on a high note by thinking of it as just a different way of breathing rather than a pesky consonant...

hannah
abstract tonight

[kaptainkruft.livejournal.com]

We have a celebrity chef in Australia who is called Aristos. Now I see it is just a way of being pig headed :)

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

I find languages fascinating, though I'm not really that good at learning them on my own - feedback and interaction works really well. Yet to find a decent online "Teach yourself..." type thing, for instance. Or the CDs you can buy. They all seem to be pants.

I'd love to be competent in Latin, though.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

They do a reading latin course too http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01A297_1_0

I'd love to redo latin, I've forgotten so much now, it'd be interesting to see how much of it came back.

[whit-merule.livejournal.com]

The vocab might. The grammar... argh. Too many rules. I thnk if I went back to latin i'd haveto spend a couple of months beforehand revising all the little intricacies of construction and use of tenses and so forth. Not to mention all the tenses and constructions we don't have in english (although I do like the future participle - that's a novel concept :)). I'd've thought this a silly statement before I studied latin, but I swear, no other language has half so much grammar as that one.

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really like a number of the courses they offer but couldn't put them towards anything useful. Like, I'm not sure I'd really want to do a whole Classics degree. If you could include that as part of the 180 points for a post-graduate thing, it'd be kinda cool. Though I guess you could do it as prep for the post-grad stuff, or do the undergraduate diploma, but yeah. I'd quite like to find an interesting MA/MSc to do.

Also, why does everyone other than the OU have really crap distance courses? They seem to be almost entirely MBAs and, uh, things about distance learning. (Over-simplification, but the options really are very limited.)