July 2005

furusukuriin karaapikkaa

This dhtml colour thing, which I made 6 years ago, still gets new bursts of hits every now and then... Last week it was Chinese MSN Spaces, currently it's making the rounds on a number of Japanese blogs, and I'm having some fun trying to decipher what people write about it.

In the case of lucky-bag.com, I recognized most of the Katakana in the title, and I know it's used to represent foreign words, but it still took me quite a while to realize what on earth furusukuriin karaapikkaa could mean. Pronouncing it out loud finally revealed the answer.

Mathias Bynens wrote on 2005/07/02:: But then again, you create funky shit.

Jan! wrote on 2005/07/04:: If "karaapikkaa" is their way of pronouncing of "color picker", what is "furusukuriin"? I didn't get any further than a mix between "fur sure", "foreskin" and "fur sugar".

Hmmmm, fur sugar...

Milo wrote on 2005/07/04:: hint: furusukuriin could also be written as furu-sukuriin. Also, try pronouncing it really fast.

Jan! wrote on 2005/07/05:: Nope, still not getting it...

Milo wrote on 2005/07/05:: F11

Jan! wrote on 2005/07/05:: Ooooooohhhh! Thanks, now I get it! I was thinking along the lines of "furu" -> "fulu" -> "follow" and "sukurin" -> "sukur" -> "cursor", way off target.

Milo wrote on 2005/07/05:: Heheh. "follow cursor" would probably have been "forro kurusoru" or something.

wow wrote on 2005/07/06:: "furusukuriin" = "full screen"?

damn,it's hard.

Thomas wrote on 2005/07/08:: Just came across your blog and your "dhtml colour thing". Being one of the the5k coders (2002 contest; chrono and mahjongg game; afterwards development of http://www.mahjongg.li), I cut a long story short: WOW. Fabulous page.

Fidel wrote on 2005/07/12:: You can blame me for any bursts of activity on the colors by domain. I added a command alias on yubnub.