Musings from an overworked translator

TGIF: Speech 101 prank December 7, 2012

Jose Barrientos has posted a series of prank speeches from his Speech 101 class. He was bored and decided to do his first speech with an accent. He spent the entire semester talking in a Mexican accent and revealed during the final that his accent was fake. He fooled just about everyone in the class. It’s pretty funny. Enjoy!

Speech 1 – he brings in a pinata:

Speech 2 – he talks about his admiration of David Hasselhoff:

Speech 3 was about Cinco de Mayo, but he doesn’t appear to have posted that one on Youtube.

It’s a trap! November 2, 2012

If you receive an e-mail called “LinkedIn new messages” do not click on the link(s). It’s linked to a malicious website. This applies to any e-mail from an unknown source. I must have not drank enough coffee yet today, because I absentmindedly clicked on one of its links (not even realizing that it wasn’t sent to the e-mail I use for LinkedIn!). Luckily my anti-virus protection stopped it in its tracks. I just knew I had a couple pending messages in LinkedIn, because I had just accepted a colleague’s LinkedIn request (hi, Tom!) about 15 minutes before. So think before you click!

LinkedIn
REMINDERS
Invitation reminders:

From Concepcion Bonds (systems analyst at TCU)

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This video should explain the blog post title. It’s from my favorite TV show, The Big Bang Theory.

And here’s the original (I like Sheldon’s better):

TGIF: Found in Translation October 12, 2012

If you have not had a chance to look at the video that Jost Zetzsche and Nataly Kelly produced to promote their book, Found in Translation, and celebrate translators and interpreters around the world, take a quick break and watch it. It’ll be 90 seconds that will make you smile.