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May 29, 2005
Some Things Best Left Said
It seems that, under my nose, Merriam-Webster went out onto the net and sought out the most popular words that weren’t in the dictionary.
Mine is: oop (interj): a comment of slight surprise or realization of a mistake too small for a whole “oops”
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May 24, 2005
More Pirate Standards
Beware the Literary Pirate.
(The designer of this flag did not know you could spell “Catie” with a “C” and has since been flogged and thrown in the brig.)
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May 21, 2005
Broken Things
Things are breaking on me this week. My calendar page (sneakily hidden, until I can get the security working again) won’t upload calendars via WebDAV, I can’t keep the screens in my apartment windows, and today one of the pedals broke off my bicycle. Gah!
Recently, big-money England football (nee soccer) team Manchester United was bought by Tampa Bay owner Malcolm Glaser. Manchester United fans are upset, to say the least. (In spite of what we might be told, most of England doesn’t really care for their neighbor across the pond.) For anyone who remembers when Japanese companies were buying United States property hand over fist, their reaction is much like ours was. Or imagine if Sony bought the Lakers. Yeah, now you’re getting it.
To add injury to more injury, during today’s FA Cup Final, the Superbowl of British football (er, soccer), Man U’s opponent’s fans taunted the team by chanting, “U-S-A! U-S-A!” Inspiring to us, not so much to Manchester.
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May 17, 2005
Even Sweet Girls Get the Urge to Pillage
Don’t hurt me.
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May 15, 2005
Pirate Chicks
Pirate chicks wear color-coordinated eye-patches.
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May 13, 2005
Vroom
I would like one of these, please!Posted by jenkins at 12:04 AM | Comments (0)
May 9, 2005
A Moment of Zen
Thought of the Moment: “It takes all kinds. That’s me.”
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May 8, 2005
Smoking, Not Smoking
In spite of the fact that I believe smoking kills in horrible and inventive ways, I am nonetheless defending it in a school group project. While I don’t believe that smokers should be alienated or looked down upon, but most smokers are inconsiderate toward non-smokers. There is a certain etiquette about smoking — where you blow the smoke, when you don’t smoke, asking before you do — that is simply ignored. In the face of this, the rallying cry of, “We’re being discriminated against!” is less impressive. The flagrancy of many smokers toward non-smokers as-is borders on the profane.
Not all smokers. Just a lot of them.
Still, I fully support the smokers’ rights to smoke.
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May 5, 2005
The First Snowflake of Spring
A lot of excitement comes about with the first snowflakes of winter — generally kids hoping for enough to close school or drivers nervous about potentially slick roads. People don’t get quite as excited about the first butterfly of spring. Maybe it’s because by this time, there have been flowers galore. Still, I can’t help but be a little moved on seeing the first.
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