February 21st, 2006
Pronounced: in-so-mania
Insomania is what you get when you can’t sleep. Marathon-class insleepability.
So many things to get done in the morning and no way to put your body to bed. Soon I’ll be operating movie theaters in the wee hours of the night and splicing Egyptian pictogram porn into local releases of MI:III. It could only help that schlock.
I’ll then form an army. Malcontents they will all be. We’ll spread across the land like a plague. The locust variety. We’ll eat your food. Sleep in your beds. We’ll borrow your car and bring it back on empty. Not even enough fuel to reach the gas station one block away.
Then we’ll move on.
We’ll trash your hummers. Sharpie moustaches on your pets. We’ll laugh at your woes and call your very lives insignificant in the eyes of the great god GORGO. We’ll have fun on levels unknown to man or God.
I know all of this because Groonk knows this.
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January 11th, 2006
I’m not a big fan of riddles. But this one amused for all of 2 minutes and I need some filler while I balance the real world with the interwub.
A part of the bird.
That is not in the sky.
Which can swim in the ocean,
And always stay dry.
Answer after the jump…
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October 16th, 2003
“In the story of flowers red is the color for ‘determination'”
Trigun “FLYING SHIP”
Well kinda. Geranium’s actually mean Preference.. according to this page anyway. A quick search on dictionary.com’s thesarus informs me that preference and determination are close enough not to raise too much of a fuss.
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September 17th, 2003
NOUN: A medieval missile launcher designed on the principle of the crossbow.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English arblast, from Old English, from Old French arbaleste, from Late Latin arcuballista : Latin arcus, bow + Latin ballista, ballista; see ballista.
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September 13th, 2003
extreme programming, noun
A method of software development that combines all the charm of backseat driving with all the efficiency of a marital squabble.
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September 13th, 2003
If the Devil’s Dictionary meaning is right.. I should receive the call any minute now:
flash mob, noun
An impromptu gathering, organized by means of electronic communication, of the unemployed.
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September 3rd, 2003
\Hi”er*o*man`cy\, n. [Gr. “iero`s sacred + ?
divination: cf. F. hi[‘e]romantie.]
Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.
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August 27th, 2003
dour \DOO-uhr; DOW-uhr\, adjective:
1. Harsh; stern.
2. Unyielding; inflexible; obstinate.
3. Marked by ill humor; gloomy; sullen.
Dour probably comes from Latin durus, “hard, stern, severe.”
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August 25th, 2003
vainglory \VAYN-glor-ee; vayn-GLOR-ee\, noun:
1. Excessive pride in one’s achievements, abilities, qualities, etc.
2. Vain display.
Vainglory is from Middle English vein glory, ultimately from Latin vana gloria, “empty pride,” from vana, “empty” and gloria, “glory, pride.” The adjective form is vainglorious.
His vainglorious efforts to be cool only increased my want to smack him in the nose with a louisville slugger.
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