As much as I like the motivation that group posting events like National Blog Posting Month, aka NaBloPoMo, provide, I also detest failure. I have had enough failure in my life already. Because I am a stubborn, I tend to hang on longer than I should. The concept of cutting my losses is not one […]
Word Play – Wonks, Geels, Nerds
I've been accumulating apps which allow me to play with the graphic presentation of text. Nerdy, in a wordy sort of way. TypeDrawing created this image: Symbolizer did these: ⓝⓔⓡⓣⓗⓤⓢ ЯƎᗩƧ⚙И C̤̈ЯƎƎƘ And, while watching puppy, I have also been wasting time wondering about what distinguishes a wonk from a geek from a nerd. […]
Why Language Matters, Mitt
I absolutely loved the Semiotic, Non-verbal Communication, and Linguistic Anthropology courses I took as an Undergraduate and Graduate Student with Myrdene Anderson and the late, great O. Micheal Watson. This summer, after I found out O. Michael was in hospice due to esophageal cancer, I tried to compose a very short note to send to […]
Cobwebs
The word cobwebs sounds like a word Gertrude Stein could have invented. Inverted it could have been webcobs which could easily be mis-heard as copse. Web copse or web forests sounds spooky and eerily like something that the beings of Middle Earth would encountered beyond the Shire. And we know that spiders are very nasty […]
Another Fragment & Forward Friday
Fragment Fridays provide an opportunity for me to collectively address the accumulation of ideas that have not made it into into print this week that either I really wanted to develop into full posts or were enticing thoughts that I just did not get beyond the “jotting down” stage. Twitter and #ff Mania I totally understand […]
CAPTCHA, I Just CAN Quit You.
It is a wonderful, wacky Wednesday and instead of an iPhone and/or iPad app, I am singing the praises of a WordPress Plug-in, Akismet, this week. If you blog, you are targeted by spammers. Google owns Blogger / Blogspot.com and zaps spam for you. But if you need to own and control your own blog […]