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Crime Wave?
We call them eggcorns—”tiny little poems, a symptom of human intelligence and creativity”. The Guardian calls them “word crimes”. On July 7, Oxford University Press published a new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, and apparently sent around a…
Tuesday, Tuesday
I actually had a good night’s sleep! As a result, I was able to get up and make my own breakfast this morning—that doesn’t happen very often. Before 6 am, even! Unfortunately, my body has decided that it’s a good…
Movies
One of the advantages of not watching many movies is that I’ve seen only two out of the IMDB’S 100 Crappiest Movies of All Time, and 22.5 of their Top 100 Best Movies of All Time. Quite a few of…
Catching Up
Let’s see – shadowkatt, curiousmay9 and ridinrabbit returned from their New York city jaunt LATE last night. sambear and I then delivered the girl to my parents, and she’s off to the beach with them for most of the week.…
Color Correction for Photos?
Any of you wizards able to correct the color in some photos and willing to help me with them? I found a program that does SOME of them automagically, but not enough of them to justify its price. I’m NOT…
Overheard on LJ
squigglz in customers_suck via dot_cattiness: “If you’re Gods gift to women, I hope we kept the reciept.” jabber in dot_cattiness: “He’s not poly. He’s pining for the Swedish Bikini Team.”
Catching Up On the Poetry
what she was wearing by Denver Butson, from illegible address. this is my suicide dress she told him I only wear it on days when I’m afraid I might kill myself if I don’t wear it you’ve been wearing it…
The Flood Begins
I have a whole mess of posts bouncing around in my skull. Part of it is due to being offline for the last couple of days, but some are older than that—I just haven’t had time or energy to write…
Wow: Walking the Labyrinth
Thanks to patgreene for sharing her words with the world: Walking the Labyrinth You must walk the path. No one can walk it for you. You must walk the path. Walking around the path, looking at the path, watching others…