Tag: Words

The colon: The colon likes to explain things. The colon likes to demonstrate ideas. The colon likes to list things. Good job, colon! Aside from its function, they are two dots–one atop the other. Not touching. Keeping their distance from…

The following poem was inspired by the super loud firetruck horn that just blew down on Michigan Avenue. I’m up on the 14th floor and it was quite loud from up here. The horn musta been so loud that it…

What if inanimate objects could talk? What would they say?

I’m designing a brochure for KRT Campus, and I was looking for some dramatic images. Normally, you’d do a search for: drama, dramatic, powerful, happy, sad, joyful, and all those other words in the thesaurus. But here’s a trick… look…

I have a notepad with a monthly updated to do list. This page gets looked at very frequently. It would be a good idea to put some bible verses at the bottom to be a good reminder of how God…

When outside and looking at windows of tall buildings, you’d think that you would be able to see stuff occuring inside the building. But you rarely ever see see any activity. It seems fairly lifeless. But humans outside the building…

There are 6,142 congregations in the LCMS (Lutheran Church Missiouri Synod). Here are the twelve most common names: source: lcms.org

A time and a place Capturing a certain feel of a time period Extreme Lots of hand lettered type squeezed into one space Industrial Strength –Dymo (those Dymo stamp machine things) -Stamped in steel (dog chains, phone booth) -Industrial Strength…

Yesterday someone told me something that I thought was quite poignant. To make sure I was spelling it correctly, I looked it up on dictionary.com and the meaning is a bit different than what I thought. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=poignant. Poignant was always…

Here’s another style… well, not really a style, but an accessory. I don’t like having lots of things in my pockets, so the travel leg bag is quite helpful—and James Bondesque. WHAM BAM! Whip that cell phone out of your…

Such sheer joy should not be allowed. My feet are wrapped in essence of cloud. Walking along pleased and proud, A new pair of socks they were endowed.

After many, many, many, many, many posts on anti-pigeons, maybe they aren’t all that bad. They are tough survivers and add a non-human element to urban areas. They do have nice different colors. And they do walk in a funky…

There are four known acronyms for OOH: * Occupational Outlook Handbook * Orbital Operations Handbook * Out of Here * Out of Hours And one for OOOH: * Out of Our Heads

The State of Illinois building is where I get my hair cut. To me the entire building is just simply known as the barber shop. One really big building just to get your hair cut. Similiar semantic construction with the…

I’m joining a football fantasy league this year and I need to come up with a great team name. My brother‘s team name is Fighting Tokugawas. Oh this is like the bowling team names. Anyone have some good suggestions?

Libraries are great places to explore books, but it would so fantastic if there was a Netflix for books. Oh wow, to have your own list of books that you are interested in and you get three books at once…

The Mayans had two calendars: Solar Calendar: 18 months of 20 days each, totally 360 days (with five days tacked on at the end of each year to get 365) Ritual Calendar: 20 weeks of 13 days each. Both calendars…

Did you know that "smarmy" originally meant "smooth and sleek?" Discover the fascinating history behind this word and how it came to mean "ingratiating, unctuous."

A couple days ago i heard someone on the el say, “I went back to my building after lunch” (in reference to her work building). I like that I don’t refer to the where i work, the Tribune Tower, as…

Ever get hungry while in front of your computer with no food? Now you can pig out on pizza right from your own keyboard! Here’s some ascii pizza emoticons for you to devour! o small pizza O medium pizza @…

I’ll give one word. The first person to comment will leave a word related to that initial first word. The next person will leave a word related to the second word. The next person leaves one word related to that…

biphonal adj. Holding multiple phones to your ears or in front of you at the same time. From the Daily Candy

Here’s a new way to play Scrabble. Players are allowed to use an anagram machine, like the one at wordsmith.org. Yeah, yeah. First thing is that you think is that it’s cheating. But if all the players are allowed to…

The phrase that acoynmfinder spits out when you search for “much” is quite funny: “Sorry, much was not found in the database” Say it out loud, it’s quite funny.

Dropping truck driving terms in an office conversation is like an air-horn of fresh thinking. (From the April 2004 issue of Men’s Health) Bad Load: Cargo that doesn’t pay much. “The Tate project is such a bad load, I can’t…

When designers are talking about a PMS color, they are speaking about the Pantone Matching System. It’s quite a ubiquitous term in the industry to say, “oh i wanted a PMS 186 on that job.” But click here to check…

How does one spell the word Cutsie/Cutesie? Cutesy: 1,300,000 google results Cutsie: 409,000 results Cutezee: 351,000 results Cutesie: 208,000 results Cutsey: 163,000 results Cutesie la-tootsie: 1 result (this very blog post) Cütesîe: 0 results Three observations: Cutesy is the clear-cut cute winner. Cutezee…

Cybho noun 1. A cyber whore. 2. A person who uses 3 or more different instant messanging programs at the same time. [Cyber: from cyber (netic). Whore: Middle English hore, from Old English]

Okay, it’s not really a new word. But here’s a new definition for it. slope noun 1) A merging of two words: slow and dope. “I’ve been so lazy at home lately, i’m feeling like such a slope.” 2) Someone…

Based on this page which has 318 classic horror and sci-fi movie posters, what do you think is the most common word to use in the title? beast black blood cat creature dark dead dr dracula earth frankenstein house king…

nightenorning n. 1. The period between night and morning. “Oh wow, it’s 4am, where did the time go, I should really get a couple hours sleep. Good Nightenorning.” [Middle English, from Old English niht.] [Middle English, from morn, morn.]