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I am...
What North American accent do you have? (Best version so far)
Canadian
People from outside North America probably think you're from the States, but over here we wouldn't make such a mistake.
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Spam Spam Spam Spam
I now have so finely tuned my Mail sorting filters with e-mails from various people, e-lists, subjects, services (notifications from MySpace, Facebook, Livejournal) and so on, that the only e-mail that actually arrives in my Inbox now is spam, or what spam hasn't been shunted into the Spam folder already ( Read more... ) -
The Ides of March
Today is March 15th.
Beware the Ides of March.
Soothsayer Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR What man is that?
BRUTUS A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
CAESAR Set him before me; let me see his face.
CASSIUS Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
CAESAR What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.
Soothsayer Beware the ides ( Read more... ) -
Dreamage
sarcasma and I were in a Queen tribute band. vatch, naturally, was the drummer, as he is in nearly all my musical dreams. Set included "Flash", "Somebody to Love", "Don't Stop me Now" and "'39" (the only one I sang lead for). What I remember most was how much fun it was playing the piano well. (Instead of, to use an Austenism, "very ill indeed"). -
A few words on words
I learned a new word today:
"retronym"
When you rename something to define a difference in a noun which is no longer unique.
Example:
guitar
became
acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar and so on, whereas before electric guitars even existed, the acoustic guitars were just called "guitars ( Read more... )
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