so i bought one of those little books of word searches for my commute to work (shut up, i know they're for like, 9 year-olds but i like them!) and i was looking a puzzle over when i saw 'redrum'. hahah, i thought, it's one of those random words that crop up sometimes like 'cat' or 'mean'. and of course, in my head is a finger saying 'redrum, REDrum ( Read more... )

"Of course, if Hebrew or any of the other ancient languages had included punctuation, two thousand years of scriptural exegesis need never have occured, and a lot of clever, dandruffy people could definitely have spent more time in the fresh air." -- lynne truss; 'eats, shoots & leaves ( Read more... )

so in my infinite english wisdom *coughstoplaughingcough* i used the word "homonym" as this was the word i originally learned in elementary school as meaning "two words that are pronounced the same but spelled differently and possess a different meaning". but oh ye fickle fates of definition, to my eternal shame i found the internets telling me i ( Read more... )

i'd managed to make it this far in my adult working life not being fired and to be fair i hadn't dedicated the appropriate amount of time to my author. so i have sent off what i did, tipped my hat and am walking away a happier person. now i can go apply for the volunteer wee-ski position without worrying about taking on too much. yay free skiing! ( Read more... )

and i apparently decided to write some drabbles. and umm...i guess i thought i'd post them here? because i felt bad about posting them elsewhere? eh, fuck i don't know. they are, surprise surprise, mostly csi with some really random ones thrown in. and *shifty eyes* one romanticized smutty attempt because i'm working up to the geekfiction * ( Read more... )

elision:n 1: omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next ( Read more... )

kirsten: easy does it. if you feel faint, put your head between your knees ( Read more... )

it's somebody's birthday today, a very merry real birthday today, i'm a poor ass bastard and i don't have a present for somebody's birthday today, who could that somebody be ( Read more... )

karla: christ. cant. type ( Read more... )

my author accepted my editing bid. i am of mixed feelings about this but i shall go forward and it will be a good. thing. yes.

aeon flux was a good flick, just so long as you ignore the base material. they took some of the concepts from the series, just not the characterizations and interactions. they had to dumb simplfy it down to have it make ( Read more... )