"Dance Hall Days" is by Wang Chung, not David Bowie.

Ghostbusters for the Wii!Maybe someone else has already thought of it, but I want it ( Read more... )

Wow... 34 weeks since last entry. I rule.

Lots to tell. No time right now to post it. (Amanda, I will write back soon!) New wife. New home. New job. The usual ( Read more... )

What does it mean if I read the words "blood sugar"
and my brain translates that as "maple syrup"?
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I had to wait in line at the Post Office today. After ten minutes, I was finally at the front of the line and about to get my turn. A man then walked into the lobby. He carried a package yet seemed very much out of place. It might have been his brown uniform. He proceeded to bypass the line, walked up to the front counter, and exchanged the ( Read more... )

"I am Chiquita Banana
and I'm here to say
how to get rid of your teacher
the EASY way.

First, you peel a banana
And you throw it on the floor,

And then you watch teacher
go flying out the door."
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I just had a co-worker attempt to correct my usage in a document.  Ashamedly, I had typed "in regards to".  Yick!  However, her correction was not the offending plural.  She wanted it to read "with regards to".  Wow.  Step in the wrong direction there, but at least it let me catch the actual mistake.  "With regard to" is tolerable and has a subtle ( Read more... )

The OED is a lexical whore.
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Ok, that was really freaky.  I was just reading yet another exciting technical document.  I absentmindedly took my cell phone out of my shirt pocket and rolled it through my fingers.  Then I leaned it against my chin.  I slowly, just barely pushed the two halves of the phone apart with my lower teeth when I suddenly heard a woman's voice and jumped ( Read more... )

This is especially for
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