Acute (v.) Use and modify analogously to "attract" ("to be acuted to (smthg.)"; "to acute (smthg.)"); pronounce as homonym. Meaning to appeal to subject by being cute (in the manner of fluffy bunnies, not in the manner of a member of the relevant sex). In a sentence: "I am acuted to bunnies ( Read more... )

My fellow vegetarians, I present to you: the soy alternative to barbeque for use as the third three-letter abbreviation in an exclamation of astonishment.

OMGWTFTVP*.

*TVP = Textured Vegetable Protein. Om nom nom.

So I just got on board with Google Reader. For those who know as much about Google Reader as I did 24 hours ago, it is a browser-platform thingamajig which watches like a hawk for updates on the pages you tell it are interesting to you. Then, when you visit the Google Reader site, it tells you which of them have changed since last you looked. ( Read more... )

A Stumbleupon result and some subsequent link-following had me reading a lot of blogs about race and racism over the last couple of days. One theme I noticed that was common to all of these blogs (and one video series and one siteful of political cartoons) was the assertion that the election of Barack Obama does not signify that we live in a post- ( Read more... )

I have lived here for nearly seven months. I will continue to live here for the foreseeable future ( Read more... )

I will not engage any more than I already have ( Read more... )

I declare "shareful" to be a word by stipulation ( Read more... )

I want to know how to invest my money. I have some, now, that I could sanely lock up for five or ten years. Not a lot, but it occurs to me that it's probably possible to invest relatively small quantities of money. So, I wanna do that ( Read more... )

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Can anyone point me to free or dirt cheap software (online app or downloadable for Macs) that will let me make family trees? They're not for my family - they're for the MUCH more complicated family relationships of the characters in Elcenia, which I have a lot of trouble keeping straight. The software doesn't have to be pretty, but I have to be ( Read more... )