Quote of the day: "Don't worry if you don't know what eschatology is; it's not the end of the world." (From Dani.)
This map shows the dominant words used for soft drinks across the country. I don't know what's going on in Alaska, or in that swirl of yellow over Missouri.
Word of the day: insinuendo. (Applied to the phrase ( Read more... )

For his birthday I got Dani (among things) a USB-powered cup warmer ( Read more... )

Two questions, one fairly trivial and one meta.

1. Sight : visual :: Sound : aural :: Touch : tactile :: Smell : ?? :: Taste : ???

2. Where should I have looked this up? (A dictionary helps if you have an unknown word; a thesaurus helps if you have an approximate synonym. Googling on the three adjectives I have didn't get me the other

The discussion in my previous entry has made me curious, so... poll time!
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Dani and I had an interesting conversation about abbreviations and ( Read more... )

I know that medication instructions are intentionally terse. There's limited space on the label and they have to assume that the person reading them is dumb, or confused, or too doped up to think straight. And I know that "we all know what they mean" trumps accuracy in that case. Ok, fine ( Read more... )

I've been saying the Sh'ma daily for years (including the paragraphs that ( Read more... )

Some folks at work have been having the discussion/argument about the use of "they" as a singular pronoun. This usually boils down to a religious argument and hey, I know better, but today I sent the following message:
[We should be trying to communicate clearly, and sometimes language rules prevent that.]
I agree. This is why, when ( Read more... )

I got a nice surprise in the mail from magid Saturday. Thanks! Yummy!
Today we stopped at a GetGo which had a big sign saying "get in, get ( Read more... )

Big fluffy snow! I wonder how long that will last. (It also seems ( Read more... )