Edit: Replace "Cashe" in the first question with "Cash." I'd originally typed Cache and only half fixed it.

Poll Conjugating a Phrase

I received in the mail today a blurry photo of some flowers or weeds. On the back was an Irish stamp, my address, and nine lines of Japanese. I quickly deduced the sender to be my brother, even though he didn't know any Japanese last I checked. The following is my attempted transcription of the message using Apple's Japanese Kana Palette. I'm ( Read more... )

Installing Ubuntu updates this morning, the details included the line
Unpacking replacement wine...

Maybe the original wine turned to vinegar. Or maybe someone dropped a case and we had to scramble to have enough for the party.

Monotheism is the belief that "God" is a proper noun.

Polytheism is the belief that "God" is a count noun.

Pantheism is the belief that "God" is a mass noun.

Polyatheism is the belief that "God" can be any part of speech as long as it helps communicate.

esoteroticWhere the turn on is enhanced by the knowledge that few others will be turned on.

At yesterday's party, Joe said "I often wonder why languages have some words but not others. For instance, 'orgasm' is when one of the people having sex has an intensely pleasurable sensation. But why don't we have the word 'andgasm' for when both people have that feeling ( Read more... )

The words "verbose" and "perverse" had a baby in my head this afternoon.

Verberse, adj. Discussed at length in the hopes that the subject will somehow make more sense.

"His presentation was quite verberse, but it's still a terrible idea."

George Carlin's compiled list of dirty words and euphemisms.

Edit - IM discussion of the foregoing:Me: Haha. I've never heard breasts referred to as "umlauts ( Read more... )

I really dislike the euphemism "adult" for "sexual ( Read more... )

At the recommendation of Savage Love, I filled out sex survey from the University of British Columbia. Questions are standardized from the '70s and '80s, so some of the are a little odd for liberal-minded folks today. But what really bothers me is the BIDR section asking general questions about my personality. The answers are fuzzy with 1 as " ( Read more... )