People can do all sorts of things with Photoshop and PaintShopPro and Adobe and scanning and cropping and such so I wouldn’t believe anything you see on that site for a few days…
Crush of the Week
Guess who’s the crush of the week at malapropism?
My Name Is Not Dick
Contrary to popular belief, my name is not Dick.
How to Fight
How to Fight So The Other Guy Goes to Jail
Getting Older
The beginning of June is always a strange time for me. My birthday is coming again and I’m always sort of troubled that another one of my very few years on the planet is finished. This one has been the busiest yet and it doesn’t look like there’s any chance of slowing the roller coaster
Beer Solves Problems
haHA! On the cover of this month’s issue of Men’s Health: FIX EVERY PROBLEM WITH BEER
Hemisphere
Dave goes meta … Somehow I drifted to the other Hemisphere this afternoon. I just started reading when I came to something that made me laugh out loud.
Pronunciation of Gagne
My family and I pronounce it Gag-nee. The French, and technically correct, pronunciation is Gahn-yay. It is not Gayn-je or Gang-ee. It’s not Gag-en or Ganj-ee.
Mooshy
An eMail from my dad: The Portsmouth Pirates Under-14 Girls team took the RI CUP DIV I State Championship yesterday with a crushing defeat of Barrington, 6-0. Led by the brilliant coaching of Debbie Roberts and assisted by Debi Seddon, the Pirates scored 13 unanswered goals during the championship elimination tournament which started on Thursday.
Phenomenon
From Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, by Edward Tenner (p.11, 1996, Vintage Books) When innovation opens a new space, there is at first a euphoria of endless horizons. Somehow, though, a new frontier is never stable. Either people lose interest and it becomes a series of literal or metaphoric