Tag: Words

My top five favorite tweets I made in October and November 2009 via @spudart: For one week I’d like each car on CTA trains to play a different genre of music. Just to see if people pick a particular car…

This year I’m going to call Thanksgiving to be “Thank You Day.” The term thanksgiving often loses its meaning, because we don’t think about word actually is: Thanks giving. We are to give thanks. One method is to thank other…

The following is what I submitted for the “Incident Description” field on chicago.stolenbike.org. They ask, “Describe in your own words what you think happened to your bike. Please include any important or unusual details that make your situation unique.” Was…

It’s Halloween. I’m at home feeling sick. Laying around was only making me feel more sick and I really wanted to be able to volunteer at the mens’ shelter tonight, so I take a bike ride to get some fresh…

Etymology. There’s no app for that. Dear iPhone developers, Please give the world an app for etymology. Much love, matt

Yesterday we talked about how the word Styrofoam has origins in trees. I’ve put screenshots styrofoam’s etymology on my iPhone, so it can be a conversation starter whenever someone is drinking out of a death cup. Please feel free to…

What does styrofoam mean? Styro. You’d think that’s made up, right? Styrofoam is a trademark name by Dow Chemical Co. in 1950. It’s based from the word polystyrene. (see polystyrene) What does polystyrene mean? Etymonline.com says: 1927, so called because…

“Have a good weekend!” Co-workers wish each other this all the time. How about when you get back to work? I’m gonna start saying “Happy weekstart!”

I waited on the CTA Red Line to text my number-loving friend Tom on 09/09/09 at 09:09am. He texted me first. At exactly 9:09.

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Without looking at the dictionary, I think the origin of the word “thousands” is when someone said, “Thou give me as many cookies as there are grains of sand.” Eventually it got shortened down to thousands.

A new social media bar appears on spudart.org featuring many of the social media places that I participate in. Please feel free to connect with me via any of these social media: Blogs Spudart blog Spudart’s image clippings and notes…

alongwhile def: When awhile takes a long while example: I have some instant iced tea stuff in my drawer. I haven’t used it in alongwhile. this isn’t in urbandictionary.com yet, but don’t worry, it will be soon. I just submitted…

photo courtesy dancoulter via creative commons license I just submitted a new definition to urbandictionary.com for OTR: Over Thecounter Robot. When someone starts a chat with you and it says, “Encrypted OTR chat initiated.” It doesn’t really mean “off the…

A friend recently posted on her facebook status, “Goodnight moon… please children, scootch closer.” That’s really neat. I like thoughtful, short, simple poetic quotes. It would be cool if there was a twitter account that posted just one interesting poetic…

Need to spice up your question? Try using two question marks back-to-back. Papergirl covers the double question mark issue with her blog post “Questionable Punctuation.” She totally hits the nail on the head with the tone differences between using one…

Fuzzy Wuzzy, Outer Space, and Bittersweet are just a few of the standard Crayola crayon colors released over the years. These 133 names are considered to be a “core color” by Crayola. Hard to believe that Razzmatazz is considered a…

if you got a goodreads invite from me, you can ignore it. That was a total mistake on my part. I thought I was adding friends that were on goodreads already. I didn’t mean to send it out to my…

amehzing Definition: Combination of “meh” and “amazing.” The situation where one person finds something amazing and the other person finds it meh. In order to come to a conclusion about the situation, both parties can agree to call it amehzing.…

The U.S. Census Bureau offers free pdf map downloads. Fantastic! I downloaded the county map with the intention of making the county lines thicker than the state lines just to see what would happen if instead of states, we had…

Matt’s resume tip #34: Spice up the text version of your resume on Careerbuilder with some FIREWORKS: .·: * :·. Everyone loves fireworks. Tell me someone who does not like fireworks. Therefore, you should put fireworks into your text-version of…

Oh the days of Scrabulous. Playing the super-duper fun game of Scrabble online. See what fun words my friends would come up with. Oh yes. After IMing my brother about how I miss Scrabulous, I did a google search for…

I’d like to see a tv show named “First Season.” Whenever someone says they are watching the first season of another television show, it’ll be promo for the tv show named “First Season.” It’ll be great. “I’m watching the first…

A fun two-line poem: ============= no delete co plete ============= yes! It rhymes and it forces you to complete the poem in your mind. You have to add the m. See! The m, it’s missing, but your mind adds it.…

It’s so much fun to type the website address as ALL CAPS into a browser. I’m going to TWITTER.COM. By typing it in ALL CAPS it tells my browser that I’m totally serious about going to twitter. Give me the…

According to acronymfinder.com there are only three acyronyms for D.U.M.B. ‚Ä¢ Duke University Marching Band ‚Ä¢¬†Deep Underground Military Base ‚Ä¢¬†Disasters Usually Motivate Backups Shouldn’t there be more? There’s only two for S.T.U.P.I.D. ‚Ä¢ Smart Talented Unique Person in Demand (via…

The etymology of joy reveals that joy means to cause a person to be in a state of gladness.

When I intially saw these super cool gloves on etsy a few months ago, they were sold out. The wondeful etsy seller Xmittens made s’more and posted ’em on etsy. When I saw the gloves got reposted, I bought them…

You know what’s a funny word to say over and over? Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy.…

super-fragglistic definition: 1. Adjective. (to describe something that is really good). 2. Interjection. (used to express delight or happiness). example: as in, “Wow! This is super-fragglistic coffee!” etymology: Fraggle Rock. Because Fraggle Rock rules. You know it.

A search for “declaration of independence” on a stock photo site shutterstock.com results in many images that are not the Declaration of Independence. Sure it looks like the Declaration of Independence, but it does not start with “We the People.”…