doctoral candidate in rhetoric and scientific and technical communication
Archive for February, 2005
nerdy
07 years ago
by dawn
in just a thought
I found this on daisies’ site and it just confirms everything I ever knew about myself.
AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Heh.
word of the day
07 years ago
by dawn
in word of the day
incisive
adjective ~ impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation)
The reviewer’s incisive comments possessed a rapier-like quality that slashed through the pianist’s shabby performance.
photo friday
0Today’s Photo Friday image is up. The theme for this week is “Distorted”.
I think it’s important to mention that I don’t like touching up my photos. I like displaying them “as is” except for resizing, cropping, and adding a border. This shot is an “as is” shot.
word of the day
07 years ago
by dawn
in word of the day
bicoastal
adjective ~ of or relating to or living or working on both the east and west coasts of the United States
Tammy and Tony sustained bicoastal romance for four years while he was at Stanford and she was at Princeton.
Did you know? –> “Bicoastal” is a linguistic newcomer that reflects our mobile society. It first appeared in print in 1972 in the Saturday Review but then disappeared until 1980, when The New York Times began using it; national magazines picked it up in 1981. An article with a Los Angeles dateline printed in The New York Times in 1983 declared it “a popular term among an affluent, mobile set of Angelenos,” but “bicoastal” didn’t become truly bicoastal (journalistically, that is) until 1985, the year it finally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
quote of the day
07 years ago
by dawn
in quote of the day
“I am so small, I can barely be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes, they are so small but they see enormous things.†-Jalaluddin Rumi
where i’ve been
0I’ve actually been to almost every state in the US but I don’t remember them so I didn’t mark them. We traveled a lot when I was young. I snagged this from mizmidnight…
create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.
word of the day
07 years ago
by dawn
in word of the day
obfuscate
verb ~ 1a. to darken; *1b. to make obscure; 2. to confuse
*The witness provided the court with a series of misleading statements in an attempt to obfuscate the evidence in the case.
word of the day
07 years ago
by dawn
in word of the day
Cook’s tour
noun ~ a rapid or cursory survey or review
The course turned out to be a Cook’s tour of British literature from Shakespeare to Doris Lessing, scantily covering many of the major writers in between them.
word of the day
07 years ago
by dawn
in word of the day
unctuous
adjective ~ 1. fatty, oily; *2. insincerely smooth in speech and manner
*The unctuous passenger in the adjoining seat used every pickup line in the book, hoping to win me over.