posts brought to you by the category “pendantry”
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table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life.
What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated
with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it
will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun
way to find stuff.
see also : Vincent & Bob
rue St. Dominique, Montréal, October
2003
We found Momo the morning after the Party.
Excerpted : And then a rock came flying through the window.
August 26, 2003
Montreal
I got in the car and started driving at 06H30 this morning.
<snip />
I told her I would get up early and fetch her around 07H30 which,
notwithstanding the traffic on the way back in to town, would give me a
couple hours to work before I took her to the airport.
You can see where this all going, can't you?
Everyone said that it only takes about 45 minutes to get to Lachute from
Montreal. And it does. And it did. On the way back. After I threw the
directions that she'd been given in the back seat and simply trusted the
map.
The lesson here is clearly : always check directions against a map. Had
I done that earlier I might have noticed that there are two route 148s
in Quebec (separated by many kilometers), that route 139 doesn't exist,
that the turn off to route 158 isn't actually marked and that route 158
is in fact a very short country road with the second route 148 at one
end and a major provincial highway that leads straight into downtown
Montreal at the other.
I pulled up the driveway at 09H00.
But we made it back eventually. I had baked cookies for her to take up
for the rest of the week and there were still some left which helped
ease the aggravation on the way back.
And then, on my way back from the airport, a rock came flying through
the driver's side window while I was driving 110km on the 20 Eastbound,
ricocheting off my head.
I can't find the rock (which I can only guess came off the big truck
with the tarp that I was passing) and all I have to show for the adventure
is a bump on my head. Otherwise I appear to be fine.
A bit dazed, maybe, but it's hard to know how dazed I already was when I
was struck. I'm just glad I didn't have to figure out how to cross three
lanes of traffic with a face full of blood.
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.86_02
The Washington Post on lifestyle porn for the ruling classes.
Homeland security. First there was the agency. Then there was the
department. Now there is the brand.
"Their real vanishing point is where our incomprehension
meets."
Me : ASCOPE::Class::Null.pm 1.1
Cory Doctorow : Boring profs exposed by WiFi
Profs who bore their students and blame laptops don't get a lot of
sympathy from me -- if you can't convince a room full of young people
who've committed to a lifetime of debt in order to cram their heads
with useful knowledge and skills to pay attention, it's time to
re-evaluate your material and methods.
Jo Walsh : Bot::JabberBot.pm
Iain Truskett : WWW::Yahoo::Groups.pm
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : confute
Confute \Con*fute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confuted}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Confuting}.] [L. confutare to chek (a boiling
liquid), to repress, confute; con- + a root seen in futis a water
vessel), prob. akin to fundere to pour: cf. F. confuter. See {Fuse} to
melt.] To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or
show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence. Satan stood . .
. confuted and convinced Of his weak arguing fallacious drift.
--Milton. No man's error can be confuted who doth not . . . grant some
true principle that contradicts his error. --Chillingworth. I confute a
good profession with a bad conversation. --Fuller. Syn: To disprove;
overthrow; sed aside; refute; oppugn. Usage: To {Confute}, {Refute.}
Refute is literally to and decisive evidence; as, to refute a calumny,
charge, etc. Confute is literally to check boiling, as when cold water
is poured into hot, thus serving to allay, bring down, or neutralize
completely. Hence, as applied to arguments (and the word is never
applied, like refute, to charges), it denotes, to overwhelm by evidence
which puts an end to the case and leaves an opponent nothing to say; to
silence; as, ``the atheist is confuted by the whole structure of things
around him.''
web1913
confute v : prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his
colleagues' theories" [syn: {disprove}] [ant: {prove}]
wn
Bowie J. Poag : MicroBlogger
"as the name implies, is a small, simple,
flexible, reliable weblog engine written entirely in bash script. ...
Just look at Captain Kirk up there... He decided he was going to use
PHP4, MySQL, CGI, Perl, and JavaScript to make his "Captain's
Log".....Poor guy, he tried to overdo it with PHP-Nuke, and all he got in
return was angry and constipated! As the picture illustrates, you
shouldn't have to strain to make a log. There really is no need for any
other foo-foo gingerbread features like SQL servers and exotic Apache
mods.. Its just freakin' HTML for petes sake. Its not supposed to be
complicated. So, just look at that picture, and think back to all the
time and hassle you spent learning a skill thats obsolete in 6 months. If
all you want is a simple, full-featured weblog, you've come to the right
place."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : shosho
something that does not work as it should
ex. That firecraker was a shosho.
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
whangdepootenawah
In the Ojibwa tongue, "disaster." An affliction that
strikes hard when no one expects it.
ex. Whangdepootenawah.
see also :
whangdepootenawah dict-ified
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : bednaw
Better not, should not do something
ex. Bednaw make me come over there.
From the "Not ready for prime-time, but it works" department :
Kip Hampton : Multi-Interface Web Services Made Easy
"There is little doubt that the hype associated
with web services has reached astronomical proportions. Notably missing
from the current flood of information, however, is a nuts-and-bolts
examination of how to build applications which provide both browser-based
access for human users and programmatic access for automated clients. ...
This is not about the relative merits or weaknesses of SOAP, XML-RPC, or
REST, nor will it attempt address the reasons why you might choose one
and not another. The goal here is to demonstrate that, with a little
forethought and a few Perl modules, you can easily create useful Web
applications that can accessed from any or all of these types of
clients."
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is :
regurgiburp
The expulsion of gas from the stomach through the mouth,
accompanied by the taste of stomach acid and partially digested
food.
submitted by Peter Cohen
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : jocund
Jocund \Joc"und\, adv. Merrily; cheerfully. --Gray.
web1913
jocund adj : full of or showing high-spirited merriment;
"when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such
a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly
old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas";
"peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: {gay}, {jolly},
{jovial}, {merry}, {mirthful}]
wn
W3C : Speech Synthesis Markup Language
Benjamin Trott : "I've started implementing the common weblog API
in Movable Type."
I'm going to try and suspend my disbelief
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is wiseacre
| source : web1913 | Wiseacre \Wise"a*cre\, n.
[OD. wijssegger or G. weissager a foreteller, prophet, from weissagen to
foretell, to prophesy, OHG. w[=i]ssag?n, corrupted (as if compounded of
the words for wise and say) fr. w[=i]zzag?n, fr. w[=i]zzag? a prophet,
akin to AS. w[=i]tiga, w[=i]tga, from the root of E. wit. See {Wit}, v.]
1. A learned or wise man. [Obs.] Pythagoras learned much . . . becoming a
mighty wiseacre. --Leland. 2. One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom;
a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce. |
source : wn | wiseacre n : an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic,
insolent comments [syn: {wise guy}, {smart aleck}, {wisenheimer},
{weisenheimer}]
Haruki Murakami : Honey Pie
Me : jabbergroups
Call me crazy, but I don't think I would suggest
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is solecism
| source : web1913 | Solecism \Sol"e*cism\, n.[F.
sol['e]cisme, L. soloecismus, Gr. soloikismo`s, fr. soloiki`zein to speak
or write incorrectly, fr. so`loikos speaking incorrectly, from the
corruption of the Attic dialect among the Athenian colonists of So`loi in
Cilicia.] 1. An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination
of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a
language or from the rules of syntax. A barbarism may be in one word; a
solecism must be of more. --Johnson. 2. Any inconsistency, unfitness,
absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners. C[ae]sar, by
dismissing his guards and retaining his power, committed a dangerous
solecism in politics. --C. Middleton. The idea of having committed the
slightest solecism in politeness was agony to him. --Sir W. Scott. Syn:
Barbarism; impropriety; absurdity. | source : wn | solecism n : a
socially awkward or tactless act [syn: {faux pas}, {gaffe}, {slip},
{gaucherie}]
Brad Marshall : System Authentication using LDAP
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is irenic
| source : web1913 | Irenic \I*ren"ic\, Irenical
\I*ren"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?.] Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific;
conciliatory; peaceful. --Bp. Hall. | source : wn | irenic adj :
conducive to peace; "irenic without being namby-pamby"; "an irenic
attitude toward former antagonists"
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is aegis
| source : web1913 | AEgis \[AE]"gis\, n. [L.
aegis, fr. Gr. ? a goat skin, a shield, ? goat, or fr. ? to rush.] A
shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of
Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection. |
source : wn | aegis n 1: kindly endorsement and guidance; "the tournament
was held under the auspices of the city council" [syn: {auspices},
{protection}] 2: armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a
cuirass [syn: {breastplate}, {egis}] | source : foldoc | AEGIS
<operating system> A {Unix} variant that was used on {Apollo}
{workstations} before Apollo was bought by {Hewlett Packard}. AEGIS has
some advantages over standard {BSD} or {System V} Unix. It includes
faster file access and a richer command set; there are commands to find
out which {process} is running on a particular node, which process is
locking a particular file, etc. (1997-02-25) | source : foldoc | Aegis
<programming, tool> A {CASE} tool for project change management,
from the {GNU} project. (1995-03-27) | source : vera | AEGIS Advanced
Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is efficacious
| source : web1913 | Efficacious
\Ef`fi*ca"cious\, a. [L. eficax, -acis, fr. efficere. See {Effect}, n.]
Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to
produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law. Syn: See
{Effectual}. -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ness}, n. |
source : wn | efficacious adj 1: marked by qualities giving the power to
produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than
the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine
is efficacious in stopping a cough" [ant: {inefficacious}] 2: producing
or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect;
"an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for
rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching
methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance";
"his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an
efficacious law" [syn: {effective}, {effectual}] [ant: {ineffective}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is wag
| source : web1913 | Wag \Wag\, v. i. 1. To move
one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate. The resty
sieve wagged ne'er the more. --Dryden. 2. To be in action or motion; to
move; to get along; to progress; to stir. [Colloq.] ``Thus we may see,''
quoth he, ``how the world wags.'' --Shak. 3. To go; to depart; to pack
oft. [R.] I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag. --Shak. | source :
web1913 | Wag \Wag\, n. [From {Wag}, v.] 1. The act of wagging; a shake;
as, a wag of the head. [Colloq.] 2. [Perhaps shortened from wag-halter a
rogue.] A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a
wit; a joker. We wink at wags when they offend. --Dryden. A counselor
never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used
to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to
call it the thread of his discourse. --Addison. | source : web1913 | Wag
\Wag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wagging}.]
[OE. waggen; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vagga to rock a cradle,
vagga cradle, Icel. vagga, Dan. vugge; akin to AS. wagian to move, wag,
wegan to bear, carry, G. & D. bewegen to move, and E. weigh.
[root]136. See {Weigh}.] To move one way and the other with quick turns;
to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part
of the body; as, to wag the head. No discerner durst wag his tongue in
censure. --Shak. Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and
wag his head. --Jer. xviii. 16. Note: Wag expresses specifically the
motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport,
and mockery. | source : wn | wag n 1: (informal) a witty amusing person
who makes jokes [syn: {wit}, {card}] 2: causing to move repeatedly from
side to side [syn: {waggle}, {shake}] v : move from side to side, as of
fingers and tails; "The happy dog wagged his tail" [syn: {waggle}]
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is commensurate
| source : web1913 | Commensurate
\Com*men"su*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Commensurated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Commensurating}.] [Pref. com- + mensurate.] 1. To reduce to a
common measure. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To proportionate; to adjust. --T.
Puller | source : web1913 | Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, a. 1. Having
a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as,
commensurate quantities. 2. Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.
Those who are persuaded that they shall continue forever, can not choose
but aspire after a happiness commensurate to their duration. --Tillotson.
| source : wn | commensurate adj : corresponding in size or degree or
extent; "pay should be commensurate with the time worked" [ant:
{incommensurate}]