Earlier, I was musing over the debacle of the live streaming of the Hugo Awards ceremony - the service provider, ustream, cut off the webcast part way through Neil Gaiman's acceptance speech for alleged "copyright violations", apparently because their automated systems for trapping copyright violations were triggered by the video clips provided by ( Read more... )

Miscellaneous thoughts from Farthing Party (which was wonderful, as usual)...

A ukulele is just like a guitar... if you're missing two fingers.

A dyskulele would be kind of the opposite of a ukulele - it would look and sound terrible.  (Ukukeke haters need not comment here.  As with any other instrument, it may be played well or badly.)

Triggered by a ( Read more... )

Timbitis: abdominal swelling caused by excessive incremental absorption of dietary fats and sugars.
 

So what is this "chocohol" I keep hearing about?  What about "shopohol"?  "Workohol"?  And so on.

Implicitly, they're things that one can be addicted to, just as an alcoholic is addicted to alcohol.  At least, that's what I assume is the implication when I hear people referring to workoholics, shopoholics, and so on.  But as a form of word ( Read more... )