I was doing a cryptic crossword puzzle the other day and I had one clue left unsolved. The clue was “German sub.” Finally, I caved and looked it up, with the help of Google. The answer was Ersatz. It is defined as something inferior, a substitute for the real thing, such as artificial rubber or coffee […]
Seedy Saturdays have nothing to do with weekend decay 🙂 They are actually days when people get together to exchange seeds from their respective gardens. With all this genetic engineering going on, it’s a way of preserving heirloom varieties and keeping Monsanto’s laboratories out of the flower beds of the nation. I have never considered
Today I did more keying into Google of random words to see what would come up. In fact, I actually keyed in the word “random.” Well, this amazing collection of photographs came up from a NY gallery named “rANDOM.” Click on the link for an fabulous slide show of modern photography. Then I found a
Some of my posts lately have been about “stand alone absolutes,” such as the concept of “nothing” or “something” or just simply “being.” As a result I couldn’t resist a post about the “Ablative Absolute.” Let me explain. The “Ablative Absolute,” which, by the way, this has nothing to do with voiding your bladder 🙂
I wrote a post the other day on idioms using the word “tongue.” It got me thinking of the strangeness of idioms and how I really didn’t have another language to compare our idioms with. Well, a quick google search brought me this article in The Guardian and this amazing list of idioms in other
August 17 is national “is” day. Ironically, today I was looking for a blog topic and I keyed in the phrase “to be” in google. I was hoping to find something meaningful and, you know, “deep” as in “I think; therefore I am” or “I thought; therefore I was” – No, that was yesterday, so
Years ago I heard the term Glossolalia. Biblically it means speaking in tongues – uttering incomprehensible syllables, usually as part of a religious experience. Although it has strong links with Christianity, it is also a practice used by shamans, the Oracle of Delphi and really bad actors 🙂 This got me thinking of all the
I decided to write about this because I wanted to make sure that I didn’t lose the websites. So this is sort of a selfish reason for sharing, but it also looks like a lot of fun!! There are apparently a number of websites that link people together for the purpose of house sitting. That
OK today I keyed the word “nothing” into the title bar of my MAC desperately looking for something to write about (about which to write.) The results were proof that nothing really is something because… 1. Lots of sites came up on the topic of “nothing,” which shows that people are entertained, educated and/or diverted
Another FB post from Mental Floss made me laugh so hard I nearly cried. It’s a post about animals that are illegal on planes, however, some people just don’t get it. First there was the fellow who tried to take his pet turtle on a plane by hiding it in a hamburger bun. Slow food
