Here is a hodge podge of reading links I have been saving in my tidbits folder for you: Astronomers strike gold – and platinum – as they watch two neutron stars collide Kodak’s First Digital Moment In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling “Lizzie…
Tag: words
A play on words, or I should go out and take more sun-pixels
I love the web comic xkcd, as it is so much more than a comic with layers of commentary and critique – some so grokkingly subtle. Yesterday’s xkcd was a delightful, gentle play on words – Winter: Today, the Economist has an article on…
Eschew Obfuscation
The other day, while driving north on PCH near Long Beach State, I saw a beater of n car driving towards the university with a bumper sticker that said, “Eschew Obfuscation”. I had a good laugh and thought, “That must be a grad student…
On Being a Spaz
I am a spaz. I am not insulting myself. My hands shake. Almost all the time. Sometimes it is hard to hold objects without pain & tremors and it is getting harder recently to hold a pen or other small, thin objects. I have…
Poetry Ear Worms : We Were All Beautiful Once
For as much as I can get ear worms of songs stuck in my head for weeks at a time, I also find that a line or two of poetry can worm into my head, reverberate, expand, and live a full multi-week life, and…
Normob
I hate that word/phrase. It is vaguely insulting and has airs of superiority from the person who utters it or types it. Normob is a shortened catch phrase for “Normal Mobile” or the average mobile user, to indicate that the person one is speaking…