chinglish, tomoyo, espresso

Some insights into what I find interesting.

An essay on Chinglish says:

An estimated 300 million Chinese — roughly equivalent to the total US population — read and write English but don’t get enough quality spoken practice. The likely consequence of all this? In the future, more and more spoken English will sound increasingly like Chinese.

Speaking of bon mots, a slide deck from Toshiharu Harada on the trials and tribulations of merging TOMOYO linux into mainline had me in stitches. His good-natured humility is absolutely refreshing, and captures the emotions of my job and how I felt when I made my first major kernel submit. Some favorite quotes:

• It was a meeting of the Hell
• What You Need to Join the kernel development — COURAGE
• AppArmor and SELinux guys began fighting (complete with ASCII art!)
• Beware I don’t have long legs as HE has

And finally, I’m glad I haven’t gotten attitude at any of the coffee shops I’ve visited like this guy did. It took some reading between the lines, wondering “they really care that much about iced espresso?” But it turns out that no, the murky coffee owner is just trying to prevent people from doing a ghetto latte — ordering a cheaper iced espresso and then filling the remaining 3/4 of the cup with expensive cream. Hiding your fear of thieves behind some arrogant claims of coffee perfectionism seems… douchey.