Thu Sep 15 11:52:54 EDT 2016'CycleBar' Coming to Columbia Pike
September 12, 2016 at 11:00 am
A new indoor cycling studio is coming to Columbia Pike.
CycleBar, which offers vigorous instructor-led spin classes set to "mind-blowing" music playlists, is coming to 3400 Columbia Pike, according to its website.
Its next-door neighbors include Sugar ( Read more... )

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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:29:48 +0000

How come "increment" and "excrement" are not opposites? inspiration and expiration? init and exit? imposition and exposition?

Where are the words extroduce, extelligence, exdeed, exstead, extuit*, exgest*, exterlude*, exfer, exterest*, exter*, exterpret*, exquire, exquisition*, exbibe, excipient, inceed*, ( Read more... )

Fri May 27 11:50:58 EDT 2016

I think programmers have a fundamentally different understanding of how language should work. I keep seeing things in my email and thinking "How could you write that? How can you not see that your punctuation doesn't make sense? How can you not see that your construction is not balanced?"

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Sat Apr 16 03:32:26 EDT 2016

Heard on the BBC News after 2 earthquakes in Kyushu, Japan:After the two quakes, the strongest of which....
Comparative vs superlative.

Saturday 14:05

Heard on NPR News, about the same earthquakes:Bridges have collapsed and roads washed away.
"...roads washed away" what? It's obvious she meant "... roads have been ( Read more... )

Sat Apr 9 13:11:43 EDT 2016

I realize "Christian" is considered a perfectly normal name (in this culture), but can you imagine naming your child "Muslim", "Hindu", "Jew", or "Zoroastrian"? It's like "Jesus" is considered a normal name in some cultures. Or "Mohammed".

Maybe Jesus, Mohammed, and Zoroaster were just ordinary names at one time?

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Sat Feb 27 01:06:00 EST 2016

The Dork Side of the Farce

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Wed Feb 10 13:07:26 EST 2016

Lately I'm hearing in news reports 'something or other' "to death", e.g. "suffocated to death."suffocate
to die because you are unable to breathe
to kill (someone) by making breathing impossible
If you didn't die, you weren't suffocated ( Read more... )

Sat Jan 9 19:34:53 EST 2016

Collective noun: "a rumble of velomobiles"?I think that riding it [Paris-Brest-Paris, 1225km (761mi) within 90 hours] on a recumbent bicycle might actually be described as cheating. It certainly makes it very much less challenging as it takes away almost all of the elements of pain and discomfort. It becomes just a ( Read more... )