I jokingly called Mirriam-Webster [1] a tool of the descriptivists in the middle of a grammar war. And then someone literally made my brain asplode.
[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/
[2] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
Asides
Village Inn Jolt
Chasing nicotine lozenges with coffee seems like something I would have done in my youth.
Madpants
My shit is all fighty today. Is the looming vacation this weekend making this better or worse?
DEFENSE
Thank [higher power] for defensively written XSLT. Epic poop storm narrowly averted.
Branching fun
Code Analysis? More like Code Analcyst! Amirite?!
A modern haiku
Automatic flush
Porcelain technology
It works when I stand
Sixty percent of the time it works every time
So the store lacked the antiperspirant I normally deploy. In fact it lacked nearly all aerosol antiperspirants so I bought the one they did have. Brut. By Faberge.
I smell like my dad. This has been weirding me out all day.
Aren’t you thirsty yet?
- Supraliminal Message:
- An image in your field of vision that is so long lasting that you cannot see it with the naked eye yet it imprints its information on the subconscious mind.
Cruft
At what point do you unsubscribe from a feed or podcast instead of just bulk deleting the stuff it throws at you because you’re not interested in reading or listening? For me that threshold is remarkably high. I think I delete at least half of the stuff in my feed reader without even skimming these days and the same goes for podcasts too.
Million dollar idea
Overheard in a meeting in re sneaking alcohol onto a plane:
Time release shots
Perhaps I need to talk to my father about putting this together. He needs something to do in his retirement from organic chemistry.