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malapropisms
My favorite misspellings from today (with definitions):
Annpouncement: When you announce to your lover that you intend to pounce them when you get home, or announce to the room that the reason you're dragging your sweetie away is urgent desire.
Blahg: A really uninspired blog, i.e. someone posting about their cats and what they ate for breakfast -
Seuss verse
The other day, while eating breakfast ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
The other day, while bent forward over a laundry hamper to find something, I was hit on the back of the head by an X-wing fighter. My life is strange and wonderful. -
my knight in shining armor
I was at an event where they had helium balloons. My munchkin loves balloons, so I brought him one. He played with it off and on that day and by bedtime it had drifted near the door of his room ( Read more... ) -
Science!
The kiddo and I are currently science experiments. This would be easier if I had access to some simple lab equipment, but I don't, so I'm performing the experiments on us directly.
He got head lice, probably from school. We have each shampooed twice with louse shampoo, which is supposed to kill them and leave a residue that "prevents reinfestation ( Read more... ) -
Namesake
I found a new (to me) web-comic yesterday that is excellent! Worth adding to the VERY short list of web-comics I read (this makes 3) and worth telling my friends about. It's called Namesake. It is a truly novel approach to fairy tales and other stories, a sort of meta-crossover that works. Both the art and the storytelling are poignant and ( Read more... ) -
"It's pandas all the way down!"
Yesterday Gregory and I determined that the physicists have it all wrong. There are no photons, electrons, or quarks. It's all pandas. The entire universe is made up of pandas ( Read more... ) -
culinary linguistics
Fascinating. I made saag paneer for dinner the other night, and while eating the leftovers just now I decided to look up the difference between saag and palak. I know what the "paneer" part is, it's a type of cheese, made by adding acid to the milk instead of rennet, not aged with a culture, and has the odd property of not melting. Easy to make, ( Read more... ) -
lemon meringue pie
Yesterday we had a Pi Day party. I forgot to actually send the invitation I'd made the week before. Doh! I sent a quick note out Monday night when I realized my error, so we only had a few people over. It was nice, though. Mellow and pleasant ( Read more... ) -
ten-word-wiki
I got turned on to Ten Word Wiki the other night. I think I'm lost forever. This is hilarious!
- Language: "[...] getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery"
- Mark Amidon
- God: Created the World in seven days, hasn't done much since
- Brain: Perplexing mess of neurons and meat and stuff. Very tasty.
Brain: What I'll never retrieve. ( Read more... ) - Language: "[...] getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery"