Words

“In the 60’s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.”

I got tired of going to the ad-ridden dictionary.com and thesaurus.com at work in order to look up words. Enter: ninjawords.com (a free dictionary) freethesaurss.net (obviously) These are my new best friends.

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Scholars and professional translators have determined that “ilunga” — a word in the Bantu language of Tshiluba for a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time; to tolerate it a second time; but never a third time — is the “most untranslatable word in the world. “Shlimazl”, a Yiddish word

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”~ Samuel Beckett

In a discussion about the origins of the word “geek,” a coworker pointed me to the Wikipedia entry for the word, where, among the uncited definitions, I found this: A definition common among self-identified geeks is: “one who is primarily motivated by passion,” indicating somebody whose reasoning and decision making is always first and foremost