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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...