Archive for February, 2005

woo hoo!

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

New digs! Thanks to M. for the fancy upgrade and useful advice on how to meddle with it. The header is a picture I took two weeks ago — the Cascades at sunrise from upstairs. (Easy to see why we wanted the deck!)

WordPress rocks.

And another word

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

The word swarthy is excellent, no? But did you know swart is a word? Adventuring along in KOL (in the Obligatory Pirate’s Cove) this comes up:

This is a very swarthy pirate. His swart knows no bounds. That’s actually what swarthy means: full of swart. Seriously. Look it up.

And, for real, it does.

How about that!

Best word of the week

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

STOCHASTIC

Here’s a word I’ve been practically surrounded by here in the library for the last ten years, and never looked it up before. It is an excellent word.

According to OED:

1. Pertaining to conjecture. Now rare or Obs.

2. a. Randomly determined; that follows some random probability distribution or pattern, so that its behaviour may be analysed statistically but not predicted precisely; stochastic process = random process s.v. RANDOM a. 1b.

etc.

Style points to anyone who can find an everyday usage outside the context of math or computing.

Runner-up: coyoteo. Coyoteo is fun to say.

Ouch!

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

Terrible phrase of the day:

monster splinter

Sounds like something one might encounter in KOL‘s Spooky Forest. Yikes!

Polar Bar

Friday, February 11th, 2005

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