...and dire times require dire actions.
Save Mike's server!
Donations Collected: $69.18 USD
If you are wondering what the fuck is going on, it's that, after years of hosting other people's sites and collaborations, and nurturing them, I finally lost the possibility to get my money to PayPal (because my Japanese bank is too damn small to give a damn about PayPal), and thus the ability to pay for my webspace.
The people assholes who now run FanEdited.com refused to help me pay for the webspace where I was going to continue hosting and working on their damn site (despite the fact that I invented FanEdited, that I initially bought fanedited.com, fanedited.net and fanedited.org, and that I helped Boon and CBB whenever he asked me to do anything). Boon actually had the audacity to tell me he does not trust me!
I don't even know why I agreed to let Boon have the three domains now (although he did help me with renewing them recently), but, as I told him, let this be an indication that I am the better man, and I that won't fuck with his pet project despite hating his guts now. So, Boon, you, and the rest of your fair-weather friends, can fuck off and go to hell.
Je regrette, mais je n'ai pas un compte paypal.
Nice French! I thought you Americans took Spanish as a second language in school, though.
Yeah...if I don't find a way to get my money into my PayPal account by November 30, this entire place is going to go belly-up.
Well, Mike, to tell you the truth, I had the option of taking Spanish,Italian, French, German, Latin (if you'd place it in there) and if a teacher is available, probably Russian.
I can't own a Paypal accound anyways. Sorry. :(
In other news, I can finally get my camera fixed! I'm sending it in relatively soon! :)
In high school? Man, you must have one bitchin' high school!
Yeah, well I ain't blamin' ya, man. Heh, I do accept credits cards through PayPal, though. ;)
Anyways, great news about the camera! Please remind me what make/model it is; I'm curious.
That's kinda weird that your webhost doesn't take credit cards up front
Well, you see, we could take Russian if there was a teacher around here who can both speak it, write it, and teach it fluently.
The other languages, including the 'dead' one, are all available to be taken.
Microserf: It's not that they don't take credit cards; they do, in fact; it's just incredibly hard for a foreigner to get a credit card in Japan and I am, shall we say, in a little debt with my Canadian ones.
Tom: Fuck. Latin in high school?! I'm jealous. What grade did you say you were in?
I'm a sophomore.
ahh... I see well anyways check your account for a late and small birthday gift! (Sorry its not much but I hope it helps)
Tom: WTF? Sophomore? You're in university, then, right?
Microserf: Oh, man! This is one of the best gifts I got this year (the other gifts were a camera from my parents and a pair of wooden chopsticks from a guy I work with). You, sir, have (quite literally) rox0red my b0x0r! Thanks, man! ;)
No, I'm just some kid in high school.
Well, your school sounds fucking amazing. Which state did you say you were in? And they said American education is going down the drain...
Je suis de Pennsylvanie.
Can you really say "de" in this case? Fascinating! My most favourite phrase from high school French was "Je suis en retard." - for obvious reasons. ;)
Well, Mike, that is in fact saying where you are from.
I could have also said:
[J'habite a Pennsylvanie] I believe.
[Tu es d'ou?] is literally 'You are of/from where?' Perhaps that helps.
Yeah, maybe this is the new, conversational/casual way of teaching French. Back when I was studying it, I used more formal (or old-fashioned) phrases like "D'ou êtes-vous?"
I think that's just using inverse of the conjugated verb, with the usage of the formal or plural form of you- 'vous.'
Est-ce que vous parlez francais? is just the same as 'Parlez-vous francais?'
Dude, no one says "Est-ce que vous parlez français?" It just doesn't seem idiomatic to me...