Gotta love the attention getting factor that any exclamation of “Zombies!” carries. The CDC even understands this one. They used an outbreak of flesh eating zombies to reach a difficult to engage demographic group with information about emergency preparedness. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this until I Googled “Fox News Zombies.” And look […]
Never Had a Yacht, Never Will Have a Yacht: Musings on the Letter Y
“Yacht” is a status word, vessel, and club. Yachts serve as the secret X-ray decoder rings for the upper class in our society. I wonder if it is related to the word “yah?” yah 1 |yä| nounBrit. informal an upper-class person: the cafe is full of yahs whose daddies own chateaux in France. ORIGIN representation […]
The eXceptional World of The Letter X
I have been looking forward to writing a post centered on the letter “X.” The letter probably took on it’s first exceptional association for me when as a child I associated the letter with Treasure Maps. I so wish International Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 19, came more than once a year. Coming in […]
W is for WordPress (continued) Widgets and for Weekday Blogging in May
I had intended this “W” post to be about weekday blogging as a variant of the daily blogging challenges that are popular with the more vociferous of bloggers. I started a series of articles on WordPress security and easy fixes with updates to various parts of blogs that use this publishing platform that is overlapping […]
The Quixotic Q in Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Life
I love the word “quixotic” but I think it should be pronounced |kēˈhōtē tik| rather than |kwikˈsätik. To dream the impossible dream… No I’m not likely to have my cause to see the character Don Quixote remembered with the proper pronunciation of his name in a word that is derived from his rather removed from […]
Outrage!
I started another post for my “O” entry for the A to Z April blog challenge. During the time between two medical appointments today I updated the operating system on my desktop computer. I had begun blogging on my iPad but by this evening when I had planned to finish the blog, I shifted from […]