I’m kinda busy nanoing. Read the Santa thing for for yourself. [Link from Jewlicious.]
Am I the Last to Hear This?
Jimmy Carter shot his sister-in-law’s cat in order to “sting” it so that it wouldn’t catch a bird. But he killed it. [Thanks to Truth Plus Lies for the link.]
Do you love your name?
A seemingly ridiculous study seems to show that people whose names start with a C or D are more likely to make poor grades than people whose names start with A or B. Also, baseball players whose name starts with K (the sign for strike-out) are more likely to strike out than those with other […]
Get Rich Get laid
Someone I knew told me that someone HE knew used to look around ATMs for receipts that people would throw on the ground (instead of in the trash can exactly 1 foot from the machine). He’d find one with a big number in the account, then use it as “scratch paper” next time he wanted […]
Dreams Deferred
Man, I had a post all ready to write. It was about how much I hate the Chinese government, and just about everything that comes out of China (except the people). Seriously. When they’re not arresting people for no reason, or being slipshod in their quality control and health standards, they’re taking over other countries […]
Pink
I assume that this is legit. A very rare albino dolphin. I wonder if it gets burnt by the sun. Like, don’t albino humans have to be careful of sunburn?
Bemused Again
In my post about “bemused,” Kevin left a comment that made me wonder about the word, and how the abridged MW had a definition that the unabridged MW didn’t. I wrote to MW (of course?) and their response more or less confirms what I figured: Sense 3 of bemused in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary is a […]
NANOWRIMO
I’ve added a link under “friends” to right. It’s not to a friend’s site, but to another blog of mine, which I just started. I’m going to try to do the whole NaNoWriMo thing in November, and the new blog is to record it. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then go click […]
Bemused and Presume
Two words frequently pop up and make me wonder. Let’s start with Presume, as in “presumed innocent.” To me, strictly speaking, presume means that even though you lack all the facts, you have a high confidence that you’re right. “Doctor Livingstone, I presume,” meant that there weren’t a whole lot of white folks around, and […]
Big Book
Hurtling through physical space to my door is the latest translation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I’ve never read it before, and I don’t plan to start any time in the next month or two, but I’m glad to have it. It’s sort of famous. It’s 1296 pages of Russiany goodness. And this translation is […]