Month: May 2003

That Klingon interpreter story that everyone in the world (including myself) reported a couple days ago? Turns out it’s an urban legend.

The Guardian tracks down the whereabouts of design maven Peter Saville.

The Seattle Times reports on a couple who are being evicted from their house because the house is too small.

Alan Hord and Sharon Adams celebrated their third wedding anniversary yesterday by being evicted.

The couple were forced out of their 2,000-square-foot home south of Monroe because it didn’t meet the standards set by their tiny neighborhood association. The problem: The house isn’t big enough.

Hord bought the 5-acre property with a view of Mount Rainier about six years ago for $415,000. He moved into a home that had been converted from a barn.

But at 2,000 square feet, the barn off 238th Place Southeast didn’t satisfy the Mountain View Country Estates Homeowners Association’s rules. All homes must be at least 3,000 square feet.

A sign of the times perhaps?

County research has shown that Klingon has gone from being a fictional tongue to what many people — and not just fans — consider a complete language, with its own grammar, syntax and vocabulary.

If a patient speaks only Klingon, the county is obligated to respond with a Klingon interpreter. So officials have decided to include it with about 55 languages, some of which, such as Russian and Vietnamese, are widely spoken, and some, such as Dari and Tongan, are seldom spoken.

The county’s purchasing administrator, Franna Hathaway, greeted the request to include Klingon with skepticism.

But, she said, “There are some cases where we’ve had mental health patients where this was all they would speak.”

I have a new favorite movie from the Prelinger Archive. Your Name Here is the ultimate generic industrial film, built around every script and visual cliche from late-50s industrial films.

I was probably one of the few people left who still cared enough to watch, but last Sunday’s episode of MTV’s 120 Minutes was the last. I don’t know when it was exiled over to MTV2, but 10+ years ago I never missed an episode – most of the time recording them in case I fell asleep.

MTV2 is replacing it with something called Subterranean, I’ll give it a shot, but I’m not expecting anything good.

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