T-Minus LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO ROFLCon!!

I guess I haven’t talked about my involvement with ROFLCon too much on this blog, but I’m going to try to summarize it right now. It has consumed/is still consuming my whole life since October. Because of it, I’ve seen the wrong end of the sunrise every day for [...]

Is there a word yet to describe two words that use the same input sequence of phone keystrokes during text messaging and thus are often erroneously typed instead of the other? Homotexts, perhaps?

I’m taking an ill-advised break from paper writing (17-25 pages in the next 6 days?!) to blog because, and pay attention now:
Merriam Webster’s Word of the Year has zeros in it.
Yes, Merriam Webster, esteemed dictionary organization, just announced that its 2007 Word of the Year is “w00t.” With two zeros.
Granted, Merriam Webster’s contest is user-voted [...]

My flip flops are the dirtiest things I’ve ever worn continuously. My barefoot lifestyle has left its mark–literally, in the form of a large, foot-shaped print (complete with toes!)–on the shoes from when I slip them on after, say, walking through Boston barefoot or wandering around a party for six hours. But really, it’s not [...]