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Entries tagged 'anecdote'
- The Ad Is A Spy
Unlike most people on the internet I understand the importance of advertising revenue for a website and I dont use AdBlock. I dont mind seeing ...
- Space Constraints
As I said I would I have put up a few Skewed updates this week. With a Dungeons and...
- Navigational Emphasis
For the most part navigating around Salt Lake City is a peice of cake compared to some places. The city is laid out in a grid system with major ...
- Layout Space
Way back in the day I bought my first LCD. At the time I didnt want to s...
- Referral Remix
Some time back I was just reminded Notebook Forums ran a contest. The contest was meant to bring in new members and revolved around the forums ...
- Finite Infinity - Triad Rule
Apparently font kerning and leading differences exist between WordPerfect and OpenOffice because I remember these documents having more pages in t...
- Direct Import from Poland
I was driving down the street yesterday heading to the west end of the valley and on the side of the street there was a scrolling marquee. I wasn...
- Call Sign
Ive talked about the Internet Archive once before. It keeps a history of the interne...
- Subcon
It may just be my body protesting against my training schedule but I doubt it because this has been going on much longer than that.Th...
- The Zompire
image02housing.190.jpgcenter0The Zompire has risen. Zombies everywhere will no longer stand alone will no longer be oppressed ...
- Constant/Consonant
The other day in work a coworker was making a joke about another one not a derogatory joke mind you a joke that she often makes about herself....
- Um, lot?
Some words we use in common day to day speech arent actually words in the English language they are loanwords. Some of these can be easily recogn...
- Crawling
So over the weekend I traded off with my mom staying with my brother up at the hospital. I brought my notebook with me and planned on remoting in ...
- A Failure
Buying the mouse I mentioned yesterday isnt my only current activity on eBay. I also have a pile of some Pokemon TCG singles from the latest set t...
- Mission Complete: Hard Mode Unlocked
Ive seen some interesting things over the years in email. Most of it is spam so its not really worth mentioning because its garbage designed to...
- Charlie Gordon
Alright written Rorschach test time. Whats the first thing that comes to mind reading the abbreviation BKCN SHT CAKEGo ahead Ill ...
- Caution: English Construction Next 5 Miles
At my work theres a guy who often mispronounces the names of things. Usually its nothing to bother with but occasionally some unusual words are cr...
- Back from Hawaii
Im back from Hawaii. Actually Ive been back for a few days. I dont have anything to talk about though. Ive been spending most of my free time...
- They Need To Be Rounded Up
Its our supervisors birthday next week and hes taking the week off for vacation. So my teams been planning a birthday party for tomorrow. One p...
- Caffinated
Here is a recipe1 Dictionary antithesis 3 MonstersInstructionsTake one person add 3 Monste...
- You?
So right now theres a Nerd Quiz floating around the OffTopic end of Notebook Forums. The highest...
- Letter Order
TIP When abbreviating the abbreviations come from the first letter of each word in the order that the words are provided. T...
- Buried Treasure
In High School I kept a notebook for stuff related to the AnacondaSoftware title Spiral Island. This is a white notebook with a sheet slid in the...
- Cooldown Period
Between late training all week and the fun of replacing a motherboard and then dealing with driver issues after that this week has been pretty bu...
- A Wrong Turn, Somewhere...
So after I created this site I altered my MSN title to contain information about it. I changed it to The Anaconda RegularSpelling.comb...
- Description and Direction
Most of the time I plan out things in a script format. I have stories told by the characters with conversations between characters explaining the ...
- Internet Language
So Im a librarian at my church. I make copies for people and I manage materials that get checked in and out of the library for the meetings. And ...
- Geek's a Verb?
So being that its Memorial Day its kinda slow around work. Not as slow as say Thanksgiving or Christmas would be but it is slower than usual. Th...
- That's My Name
About a month or so I had to replace my car. Not like it was a big expense I was rearended last November with my previous car and it was declare...
- Regular Spelling Dot Com
So here it is RegularSpelling.com. This is my personal blog and Im going to comment on language here. Not just English and not just human langu...