If You Value Your Productivity
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Year 2005
Winners When It Counts
Losers of 7 of their last 10? Season series swept by The Pack? Doesn’t matter now. Philly’s going down next week.
Your Scottish Slang Scots Word O’ The Day: Glaikit
Third in a series glaikit (glai·kit) Dialect, chiefly Scot -adj. 1. (intr.) stupid; senseless, silly. (often in “He stood there wi’ a glaikit look oan his fizzog“) 2. (tr.) giddy, thoughtless. 3. affected. 4. petty.
Your Scottish Slang Scots Word O’ The Day: Braw
Second in a series braw (br·aww) Dialect, chiefly Scot -adj. 1. fine, pleasant, esp. weather (“It’s a braw day the day” or “It’s a braw, bricht, moonlicht nicht the nicht“). 2. attractive, pretty (often in “You’re really braw, hen. Fancy…
Your Scottish Slang Scots Word O’ The Day: Mauchit
First in a series mauchit (maw·kit) Dialect, chiefly Scot -adj. dirty, filthy, sticky, muddy. Cf. Mauchy, Mochy, Maukie, Mawkit. (see also Manky, Clarty) (often used in ‘Lookit the colour o’ ye, ya mauchit wee to’rag’).
Channelling Dave Barry
Narcoleptic wiener dogs would make an excellent name for a band.
Geek Credentials
Is it just me or does theRobosapien Version 2 sound incredibly cool? He also bears a striking resemblance to Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still…
I Think Ford Motor Co. Is Trying To Kill Me
I recently had a bit of a struggle with the cigarette lighter in my ’02 Taurus (yes, that Taurus), wherein it refused to release a cellphone car charger. After a good bit of tugging, it finally let go its quarry,…
Great Googly Moogly
Stephen Green has compiled a must-view montage of how he spent his Christmas vacation , fit for every LEGO/engineering geek out there. Wowsers.
Epiphany
epiph·a·ny Pronunciation: i-‘pi-f&-nE 1 capitalized : January 6 observed as a church festival in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles or in the Eastern Church in commemoration of the baptism…
