May 2009
19 posts
“Carbon nanotubes are no longer the proud boast of 21st century materials...”
– MEDIEVAL FTW - Carbon nanotubes: Saladin’s secret weapon
5 ways you can tell you're in a small Texas town
1. Laserwash car wash 2. Bucee’s convenience store 3. Brookshire Brothers grocery store 4. Movie Gallery movie store 5. Sands Motel
“A seed is potential wealth — brand new wealth that does not exist, but waits the...”
– 1889 - My Handkerchief Garden - City Farmer News
"wow! Luigi! You're face looks so much... →
From Funny Typos, Misspellings and Bad Engrish blog.
Randomly
it’s vs its. Only if it’s posssessive.
toward vs. towards. The second is British English.
supposedly vs. supposably. The second doesn’t exist.
should have vs. should of. Should of is not a verb. It’s not even a verb construction, because progressive tenses in English use variants of “have.”
for all intents and purposes vs. for all intensive purposes. An...
Lose vs. loose
Grammar Day Pet Peeve #1: lose vs. loose. I see this many places from so many people. But you don’t loose something. Loose is not a verb, it’s a noun. It can become an intransitive verb as in “to let loose” or “to make loose” or “to cut loose” but loose, by itself, is a noun that means something isn’t tight or rigid. A loose knot. Loose...
Cheerios, the new Wonder Drug →
“Coming to the UK is a privilege, and I refuse to extend that privilege to...”
– UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith [2 Americans banned from UK lash out at British Cabinet minister]
“What Colin Powell needs to do is close the loop and become a Democrat instead of...”
– Rush Limbaugh (who doesn’t understand the concept of “moderate” Republican)
I Have to Go Now →
A story from the New Yorker I just found. I have had that coffee experience, and I know people have had that experience at my house also.
Excuse me for looking through every cupboard!
I will remember to get the morning diet Coke for Melissa and my Mom now.
Ancient tsunami 'hit New York' →
300 BC tsunami being proven via unusual sediment and fossil deposits.
Don’t tell movie writers, or they’ll do something incredibly unscientifically stupid with it.
Whyever would you want a judge?
“I would like to see more people from outside the judicial monastery - somebody who has had some real-life experience.”
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)
What an idiot.
It’s the Supreme Court. The appropriate person is inevitably a lawyer, a respected judge, and above all one with solid experience in Constitutional law. That’s the whole point of...
