Category Archives: miscellany

wordsmith

27 Friday Apr 2007

Posted by in books & writing, language, miscellany

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Have you ever heard of Wordsmith?

Wordsmith.org is a worldwide online community of some half-million readers who share a love for words, wordplay, language, and literature. They hail from Australia to Zimbabwe and almost all other places in between.

One of my favourite services that they offer is A.Word.A.Day, which sends you a new word every day by email, along with background information and also a daily quotation. Usually the words for the week are chosen around a theme. This week’s theme was rather cool: words having vowels aeiou once and only once, and in order. Which include the following:

  • abstemious
  • caesious
  • anemious
  • facetious
  • annelidous

Can you think of any others?

random posts

27 Friday Apr 2007

Posted by in blogging, miscellany

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Have you seen the latest cool WordPress toy?

By adding ?random to the end of your WordPress.com URL it will redirect you to a random post on your blog. You can then use it as a link in a sidebar text widget as I’ve done, or else just go to the admin bar when you’re logged in and when you hover over “blog info” the first menu item is a random post link.

It’s quite fun visiting random posts on other people’s blogs, especially on those that I’ve only come across recently. 😎

wear sunscreen

19 Thursday Apr 2007

Posted by in culture, life stuff, miscellany, music, philosophy, video

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An oldie but a goodie . . .

Once attributed to the late Kurt Vonnegut, though in fact written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997, I was reminded of this when I recently advised Nog to do one thing every day that scared him (and no, living with me doesn’t count 😉 ).

Then today I found this rather nice video of the Baz Luhrmann version.

gaaaaaaa! [redux]

19 Thursday Apr 2007

Posted by in gaaaaa!!!, home, miscellany

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They’re baaaaack . . .

That is to say I had a very unpleasant surprise last night when I went to put something in the kitchen garbage bin and … gaaaaa!

This really is awful. As I mentioned over here, until a couple of years ago the usual thing was to find one or two of the fuckers over the course of the summer (and usually ‘patas arriba’ thanks to my dearly departed Lua). But then they started showing up during the summer months very much alive and scuttling. Luckily this only started happening after Nog came here to live because I honestly don’t think I could deal with them on my own.

Anyhow, time to get serious about finding some sort of roach killer (other than Nog) that isn’t harmful to cats.

summer wardrobe

17 Tuesday Apr 2007

Posted by in clothing, home, life stuff, miscellany

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Gaaaaa I hate sewing!!!

Which may come as a surprise to those of you who have seen this place, but of course I have very talented seamstresses who sew the production for that – though I do sweat blood making up the first samples myself.

Anyhow, it is not only sandal weather but it turns out it is also suddenly no longer light jacket or sweater weather. Which means I’ve got to seriously revamp the summer wardrobe that sadly didn’t get revamped last year.

Which means I’ve got to sew myself some clothes!!!

*waits for the inspiration f_fairy.gif to come and visit*