26
Jun
2007
Kameron Hurley
“I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.”
- Vita Sackville-West
Archive for the ‘trivia’ Category
25
Jun
2007
The Origins of "OK"
“For instance, a lot of kids online spell “cool,” “k-e-w-l,” says McKean, senior editor for U.S. dictionaries at Oxford Press. “They know how to spell cool, but it just looks cooler to spell it “k-e-w-l.”
It was cool in certain East Coast cities in the mid-19th century to substitute OK for “all correct.” McKean says it was common for people of that day to use inside lingo — shorthand full of puns, purposeful misspellings and abbreviations. For example, they’d use “SP” for “small potatoes,” or “TBFTB” for “too big for their britches.”
15
Jun
2007
Because it Doesn’t Always Have to Be That Way
Whenever people start arguing about biological roles and restrictions and “that’s just the way it’s always been” and “it’ll always be that way,” it always pissed me the fuck off, not only because things could be really differet, but because sometimes, things are really different (fast foward to about minute 4 if you’re impatient).
It’ll just “always be that way” until a bunch of you decide that it isn’t.
03
Jun
2007
01
Jun
2007
Interrobang
It sounds vaguely dirty and illegal, don’t you think?
29
May
2007
In the End, Everybody DIES
Not exactly uplifting, is it? (wait for the gifs to begin scrolling – it’s a little slow)
11
Apr
2007
And Then There Were Some
Some stuff you don’t often hear about being done by women.
Women Gladiators:
Women Bullfighters:
11
Mar
2007
Some Seasonings
Bullshit bingo for the workplace (something to do during all those meetings!)
16
Feb
2007
15
Feb
2007
Names I’ve Given My Hardware
I was never one of those people who had names for my cars, mainly because I never actually owned them – my parents did. I got my first laptop as a graduation present when I finished highschool, and though I never named it at the time, the person I gave it to when I upgraded starting calling it “The Beast” because it weighs something like ten pounds (it also, unlike two of the three laptops that followed it, still works).
I had a nice, big-screened Gateway computer after that, which also went unnammed, though I certainly whispered many and varied terms of endearment over it when it actually managed to store 20 gigs worth of music.
When that one blew up on me, I bought one of those tablet PCs and called it “bird” because of it’s small size (I think it weighed 2lbs).
When that one gave out on me last year or the year before, I bought this new Sony Vaio with the slick looking screen and comfy keyboard. It’s reasonably light, but far from compact, and I’ve got a big wide screen for watching movies and a big keyboard for comfortably typing up a lot of fucking books.
It also just so happened that I was hip-deep in God’s War about that time, and when I had to type in a name for this computer, the first one that popped into my head was the name of GW’s heroine: Nyx.
My ipod, which I got soon after, has the name of Nyx’s female sidekick: Anneke (that’s the little name that shows up next to the drive letter and everything. It always makes me snicker).
If I keep burning through computers like this, I may have to shelve the old shells on the ego shelf with the actual books whose characters I named the hardware after and whose pages were typed on the same machines.
Books and dead laptops filed away on the same shelves feels very Gibson.
Novels
