December 2007
11 posts
Favorit Typos
Does everybody have a few typos that they make all the damn time? My list, with the typo at left and the word I meant to type at right: ration - ratio explicity - explicit Christiopher - Christopher foundatino - foundation taht - that
Bugging Me Today
Why is “teeth” the plural of “tooth” but “door” is not the singular of “deer”?
(College) Life without a Computer
From USA Today, a story on three Carleton students who tried to go without computers for a time this fall. Oof. Sounds unpleasant and unproductive. Ironically, I think I’ve only read about them online.
Nuclear Inhalation
I just read a student essay which mentioned Americans’ Cold War fears of “nuclear attack and inhalation.”
A Regret
That I didn’t bring my cycling shoes into the house overnight: those steel shanks were awfully cold.
An American Dessert
The folks down the hall just called, as they sometimes do, to say they have leftover food. In this case, it was a bizarre but delicious but bizarre “dessert pizza” - regular pizza crust topped with cherry pie filling and sprinkled with peanuts. There was nothing subtle (taste, color, heft) about this dessert, and nothing good for you about it, either.
Stanford Sleepiness Scale →
Is there any behavior that can’t be reduced to a scale by some clever psychologist? For what it’s worth, I’m at a 2.5 right now.
Screechtastic
Working at the coffeeshop this morning, I listened to about two hours of the screechiest female singers around: Billie Holliday (“Solitude” played twice in a row!) and then Bjork. I like both of them a lot, but they both seemed grating at 9 a.m. on a snowy Tuesday in December.
Walgreens v. Target
The difference between good old Middle American Walgreens and vaguely-Euro Target, expressed quantitatively: Walgreens’ knockoff of Old Spice “High Endurance” “bodywash” comes in an 18 fluid ounce (532 milliliter) bottle, while Target’s knockoff of the dams product comes in a 700 mL (23.6 fl oz) bottle. Who’s more chic?
Disturbing Gmail Ad
Gmail generates ads based on the content of your emails. What, pray tell, in my email stack led to this? blessedherbs.com/colon-cleansing - What is known. What is unknown. Real cleansing photos. You decide. And good god, I don’t want to see any such documentation.