Tag: Words

Ever call someone crazy in an IM or text? Perhaps you even get a little creative and call that person ker-azee. Now you can never run out of ways to call someone crazee with this list of 96 different spellings…

i like how when i google image “Matt” the three results for me are a Brewster Rockit comic, my bulletin board of baseball cards at work, and some iPad painting that I never knew I posted anywhere online.

Don’t call it Willis Don’t call it Macy’s Don’t call it U.S. Cellular But why? Gapers Block sells a five-pack of “Don’t call it that” buttons. The tagline is “Buttons for true Chicagoans.” To complement this pack, I would like…

When the numbers in the current day make an interesting combination, it’s always neat to acknowledge that day. For instance, July 8, 2009 is 07/08/09. It’s fun to get a memoir recording that unique date, because it happens only once!…

Ma ei räägi eesti keelt, mida mälu. Ma ei oska eesti keelt läbi Google Translate. Minu murre on Google Translate murre Eesti. Võin rääkida iga töö Eesti Google Translate olemasolu. Minu väga sõnad siin on tõend selle kohta vööri alla,…

Today’s fun game is to take the first two letters of a word and repeat it twice in a sentence. Today is th-th. [Today is thursday.] I am feeling ti-ti. [I am feeling tired.] This cake is de-de. [This cake…

Ask any question to the “Ask a Librarian” and the Chicago Public Library will answer your question. I’ve done this about five times now, and even if they don’t have a resource in their system, they will point you to…

Oh wow. This is so cool. A family in Oak Park set up their own little library in their front yard. I totally want to visit and contribute a book. If you were contributing a book to a “Take a…

Oh man, that’s so sweet! One year ago today, I declared on twitter that “the new word for ‘sweet’ is ‘savory.'” Next time something really nice happens, don’t say, “sweeeeet.” Instead say “savory!” Try it right now! I’m sure you…

The Oak Park Public Library has one of the best photo streams on flickr. This hand-picked selection of six photos proves to the world that the Oak Park Public Library truly has it going on! Cakes for loan! I want…

The word tortoise is quite a mystery. Tortoise is a weird word. Tortoise. Tortoise. Just look at it. Tortoise. Tor-toise. It almost sounds dainty. But it’s for a clunky turtle. Etymonline.com doesn’t reveal much: 1550s, altered (perhaps by influence of…

I LOVE all caps, they are fun and expressional. ALL CAPS! YEAH! Check out these all cap all-stars: Blog posts Website addresses to adapt all caps and exclamation point features It’s so much fun to type the website address as…

Here I try to give a nice optimistic quote on quotesdaddy.com; and then in the related quotes, Albert Einstein butts in with his juvenile quote. My quote: “Don’t get jealous, instead get vicarious.” Einstein’s quote: “If one studies too zealously,…

If you could add one letter to the end of your last name, what would it be? Here’s how my last name would look: Maldrea: Sounds like a continent! Maldreb: An ameboa? Maldrec: The rec center! Maldred: Painting the town…

Have you needed to use duct tape, but there’s none on hand? Yeah. Local libraries should provide duct tape for people to use. Libraries are resourceful places with such great things. It only makes sense that libraries should have duct…

How do should “parathases” be corrected? Chrome’s spellcheck gave one suggestion: protheses. That is not the correct spelling. Google.com correctly suggested: parentheses. Chrome is is made by Google. Shouldn’t Chrome and google.com have the same spellcheck?

Last week I made a tweet that started with “dear spellcheck.” Dear spellcheck, can we just make up our minds if it’s cancelled or canceled? — Matt Maldre (@mattmaldre) August 1, 2012 This made me wonder how many tweets started…

It would be really cool to name every single Pantone color. All 1,677 of them. Better yet, why not have a website where people can submit their own names? Colorhexa has 746 color names. Colourlovers.com blows them out of the…

An accidental release of alien characters in a captcha field show that aliens have already invaded our planet. They are among us and are getting ready to make themselves known and force their alien language upon us. This captcha form…

Worldictionary $3.99 4.5 stars (122 ratings) The best app on this list, because it includes 22 languages for one price. No additional in-app purchases needed. Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Germany, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish,…

Looking to write something unique in a wedding card? Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. You see it so often. But what does it really mean? At work a card was being passed around for a former coworker who is getting married. “Congratulations”…

The Art Institute posted a one minute video of Roy Lichenstein’s wife talking about her husband’s show now showing at the Art Institute. Out of the 3,745 views, there was one comment. Just one word in the comment, “Lovely.” To…

I was tooling through the comics reading platform of graphic.ly and found there are over 500 free graphic novels. Here’s 14 I added to my library. To view 9 more (including a Mr. T comic), view the full blog post.…

word: pinbombed definition: When someone pins many many pins of the same topic/theme to Pinterest, so it takes over the screen when someone looks through their feed. example: I just pinbombed 30 different photos of potatoes! All my followers will…

word: gomo definition: When you are too tired to say the full “good morning.” example: gomo. i need my coffee tags: good morning, greeting, morning, short, bonjour, buenos dias, good morrow, greetings

Birds have cars. Flying cars. They are invisible flying cars. We just can’t see their cars. but that’s how birds can fly. Yup. Birds leave their invisible cars parked around everywhere. They just hop into one and fly off. They…

word: np definition: Short for “nip it in the bud” example: person 1: This is totally getting out of hand, I can’t stop eating bags and bags of chocolates. person 2: np tags: no problem, abbreviation, acronym, problem, help, control

What do you think is the grossest word in the English language? I’d say “crotch.” Just listen to that word. Crotch. Yuck. I’ll never forget when we were playing floor hockey in fifth grade, and someone whipped their stick up…

word: overload definition: When something is so immensely cute, overload encompasses the object that is cute and the feeling of cute. The viewer becomes completely whelmed, thus one’s feelings goes on overload. And the object of cuteness is an overload…

If a company with the word “solar” in their name, would they have issues with the recent x-class solar flares? Or would they get inquiries about solar flares? Like, maybe the are behind it or something. If your company is…

word: weekstart definition: The start of the work week. Typically Monday. People say “have a happy weekend” on Fridays. On Mondays people greet each other with a happy weekstart. example: It’s Monday, happy weekstart! tags: monday, time, day, week, weekend,…