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Friday, 2010 August 13, 12:15 — heraldry, mathematics

wiggly lines

A few people will recognize immediately how and why I did this.

Tuesday, 2010 August 10, 09:24 — general

so many misspellings, so little time

My Wikipedia watchlist grew beyond my ability to keep up with it, so I cut it back from 3082 to 1502.

Tuesday, 2010 August 10, 09:03 — language, religion

neologism of the day

I don’t care to log in at Kos for one comment, so I’ll put it here.

Daily Kos writes:

What natural means isn’t specified. But I’m sure there’s an Tex-aytollah somewhere ready to let us know.

Allow me to suggest ayatexah. Besides letting the /t/ and the last /a/ do double duty, it preserves the tatpurusa structure of the original: an ayatollah is a something-or-other of God, an ayatexah is a something-or-other of Texas.

Sunday, 2010 August 8, 21:14 — general

linky-stinky-dinky

Some channels will show any old rubbish.

Bon mot from Falkenblog:

It seems all great advice can be boiled down to one essential truth: Always—or is it never?—do X.