-ster crazy
nj () noted, in an LJ entry: I can't hear the word "hamster" without thinking "a peer-to-peer network for the...
Example
In my future-of-sexuality editorial a couple months back, I lamented the lack of (among other things) homosexuality and bisexuality in...
Words easily confused (that have become synonyms) #9
And then there are the words that I think are different but turn out to be acceptable variants of each...
Tiny correction
A couple of people on LJ have recently linked to user "jedidiah" in reference to me. Just wanted to note...
Happy Jed
Method #89-Q of making Jed happy: ensure that he receives the new 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style...
Stelvin closures
Those wacky Bonny Doon Vineyard folks (makers of Le Cigare Volant, a.k.a. the UFO wine—"as noir as anything out of...
Words easily confused (or misspelled) #8
We get an awful lot of stories in which fluorescent is misspelled florescent. Presumably partly because it's another one of...
Body ritual among the Nacirema
I discovered this evening that Kam's parents, despite being dental professionals, had never encountered "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema," an...
Looking at self-portraits
Today I attended the opening of a small gallery of self-portrait photos taken by women in a self-portraiture class at...
Everything?
I was looking something up, fact-checking a phrase for a story I'm editing, and I somehow found myself at Everything2,...
Best voice
On the way to the store, I turned on KALW, one of the several non-KQED NPR stations in the area,...
Slashdot!
My goodness. I just did a search on my middle name, which I use as a username in a lot...