Tuesday July 6, 2004

My (long) weekend: -The only fireworks I saw were the ones that seemed to be igniting just outside my backyard all weekend long (with Kang’s frequent joking-though-slightly-nervous comment, “I *hope* that was a firework…”) -Green Library at Stanford now loans out a vast collection of Xbox, PS2, GameCube, PC, and other classic consoles’ games.  I don’t know of any other […]

Friday July 2, 2004

Don’t you just hate it when you stumble upon what seems like an original idea and then you discover someone else already did it?  For example, an anti-claustrophobic porta-potty whose walls are made of one-way mirrors, so you can see who’s around you while resting in the privacy of the chamber.  I remember trying to […]

WordSpy.com

Another fun word website: http://www.wordspy.com/ Now I can use these trendy terms with confidence: mobile speed bump, furkid, drink the Kool-Aid, crackberry, information environmentalism, nanopublishing, biostitute, jump the shark, undecorating, bridezilla, manscaping, carbon neutral, butt call, egosurfing, spim, IMS. And if you want to find a way to get your old email into Gmail, try http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/ […]

Tuesday June 22, 2004

Wow, I’m getting old.  I’ve had to turn more than once this week to http://www.urbandictionary.com/ in order to look up some unfamiliar word that has somehow slipped into the cultural vernacular without my noticing.  Xanga entries everywhere with foreign words: Pwned?  Dilligaf?  Kthxbye?! What new word have you learned today?