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If you have known me for awhile, you’ll know I’m an impeccable speller. At least I used to be. Yes, I’ve lost some neurons and can’t always remember how to spell things, and have even caught the “I’m staring at this word thinking it looks really weird” bug every once in awhile. But something alarming […]

Remember Sniglets? Ahhh, the 80’s. Sniglets were invented by Rich Hall on Saturday Night Live, they are words that “aren’t in the dictionary, but should be.” I think that so-called neologism (fancy talk for making up words) has become more mainstream these days. Of course, it’s been around forever, that’s how languages are born and […]

OK, if you’ve been within 10 feet of me, or the internet equivalent of one degree of separation over the past few months, you know that I have been “living with Windows Vista” and it is completely horrible. Crashes, file loss, slowness, lots of software incompatibility, and the feeling that no one at Microsoft will […]

OK, I’m on the Facebook bandwagon, or put more eloquently “adults are the fastest growing demographic on Facebook.” What’s cool about FB is that you can make your own sidebar Ads that appear to very specific groups–I just created one for a new charity that I’m involved with. So, I chose to show my Ad […]

Someone at work was looking for engraved placards to put outside our offices and conference rooms, and she asked me ideas for a Google Search that would result in what she wanted. That was a tough one . . . I gave her some ideas, and she got close while I was standing there–I assume […]

There was a 1982 made-for-TV-movie called Mazes and Monsters that made an impression on me. In the movie, Tom Hanks plays a college student who gets involved in role-playing games (RPG), and ultimately cannot separate real life from the game, and ends up believing that he is his game character for the rest of his […]