Posts tagged “words”

An Invalid

You can imagine how stupid I felt when I called someone an “invalid” in high school. As if they weren’t valid. And don’t even get me started on “epitome”. ehp-ih-tohm. Fark this farking language! Drives me nutty sometimes, it does.

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There was no news at hyperbole about my house. So did you get that lost? I, too, love creating new words. And she keeps thinking of better and better ones! In fact I have enjoyed reading cut n’ paste more and more every day for a few weeks now. I have a copy of the

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Phunny Phrases Heard on NPR

Phunny Phrases Heard on NPR This Morning (P2HONPRTM): digital opportunities cyber-regulations

words

I recently read an excellent article on word usage based on perceived hacker v. cracker differences. I would consider myself a hacker while the person who sent it to me is definitely a cracker. The article earned 4,377 cool points for both liberal references to Shakespeare and, amazingly enough, a reference to packet monkeys …

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What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.