The word of the day is pornocracy
The debate of the day is if pornocracy is a real word or not.
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Word of the day
4/19/2005 – 3:50 pm
Pet Peeve of the day
4/19/2005 – 3:42 pm
My Pet Peeve of the day is people who take the elevator at work to travel a single floor. On my way up to the 6th floor where my office is, I had 3 people jump on and go just one floor.
Greylisting
4/19/2005 – 10:29 am
Recently, I was asked to write an article on greylisting for a slightly non-technical audience. Through the editing process it became a much smaller article and had its focus slightly changed. I still like my original version and got permission to post it here. Actually, I hate the second paragraph, but I [...]
Rue the day? Who talks like that?
4/15/2005 – 8:35 am
Your Linguistic Profile:
70% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
A post on Jess’s blog pointed me at this test. Its a fun bit of fluff, but it has one thing wrong with it. The question on what you call a water fountain should also include [...]
Scrapbook
4/13/2005 – 11:28 pm
My firefox extention of the week is Scrapbook. It allows you to make local copies of web pages, sections of web pages, and keep them locally. This is nice for fast access when you aren’t online. The other neat feature is you can annotate those local copies with notes to yourself. [...]
Do you have any super powers?
4/12/2005 – 2:59 pm
Having read comics for a long time and being familar with the Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny)1 and Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) I never thought that stretching was all that great of a power.2 However, that all changed on Sunday night when Sarah and I watched The Incredibles.
Having watched Elastigirl in action, I have to [...]
Driving that train, high on cocaine
4/1/2005 – 5:14 pm
I had an annoying runny nose today, so I took some Wal-phed, Walgreen’s Sudaphed clone. This stuff makes me nose stop running, which is good. It also had the side effect of making me feel very worried and anxious.
I felt like I’m freaking out and didn’t know why. Now I know its [...]
