July 2007
12 posts
An Open Letter to the Blogosphere
Dear every single blog I read:
Thank you for alerting me to Mike Davidson’s new project. While I managed to muster an ounce of interest the first time I heard about five.sentenc.es, I am clearly not as enamored with the idea as the rest of you. So really, please: enough already. I’ve seen it. And I’m tired of the ratio of actual posts to five.sentenc.es announcements robbing me...
“Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever...”
– Thomas H. Huxley
“okay. i am worried you are limiting your daughter’s possible defensive...”
– My brother, Sophia’s Uncle Jason, looking out for her defensive options
“We do NOT stab people with our forks!”
– Me, from the “Phrases I never thought I would say in total earnest, but then I became a parent” collection
Grammar Nazi: Use vs. Utilize
I’ve been writing a section of help on “network utilization graphs,” which has prompted me to educate:
Use and utilize are not synonyms.
Use means, simply, to use. There’s really no other way to say that.
Utilize carries more complex meaning.
Look at the form of the word: utility turned verb by the (awful) -ize suffix. Think of other -ize words:
bastardize: to...
Play "JEREMY!"
Brother: I would rate the Connells Ring as the second best album of the 1990s
Me: First being August and everything after?
Brother: yeah. of course
Brother: i don't know anyone who isn't a nirvana fanboy that argues that point
Me: you don't know any pearl jam fanboys, then, huh?
Brother: pearl jam is the lynrd skynrd of the 1990s
“ I’m a Web two point ho… of course I want an invite.”
– Chris Harrison, in response to my offer for a Pownce invite
