Non-words of the day: “loveually” and “buttaulted” »

Typical usage:
Man says priest loveually buttaulted him and his brother in the early 1960s (…)
As a former altar boy walked up the steps of a Denver home Thursday to pbutt out fliers about clergy abuse (…)
lawsuits filed against the Denver archdiocese since the loveual-abuse (…)
Thanks to Dennis for pointing out what a profanity replacement engine [...]

My name in Arabic »

Thanks to a friend at work, i can now present thee my name in Arabic:

الهلسنكي كريستيان بن الباسم لورين روبن رونيا ابو

If your Arabic looks like a string of boxes, you probably aren’t viewing this with a Unicode font.
Update: OK, maybe i need to comment on how to read it. The approximate translation of [...]

Word of the day: hypobaric »

hypobaric – below normal pressure [via]; sucks more than usual. Usage: “The food at Sodexho is hypobaric today”.

The Dickens you say! »

I had a discussion this morning with my colleague (hello chief, i know you’re reading!) around the coffee pot. Since it was early and none of us really had got a sufficient caffeine fix, our faux-brittishisms didn’t really turn out as eloquent as was worthy for the moment.
Thus, i present thee a registry of idioms, [...]

Critical batteries »

My batteries are getting critical. Wonder if it’s the excessive clicking? And i have moved around with the mouse quite a bit. But isn’t it a bit steep to dump the old batteries just because they are getting critical on me? Can’t we talk about it? Make it good? Maybe we can understand each other [...]

Mämmimössö »

Sometimes our desserts are truly weird. Of course, this is little compared to what they serve somewhere else…

Like a fish needs a bicycle »

An old African saying leapt back into my conciousness today.  It went something like
Eating rice without a spoon is like kissing a man without a moustache.
I never really understood what it means.

Learn a language »

Whoa. The world shrinks again. BBC has opened a new free service to learn languages. Courses in German, French, Spanish (yay!), Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Portugese and Greek are on line, as well as little intros and snapshots on a whole bunch of other languages, such as cymrw.. uh, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic, Japanese and [...]

Word of the day: insipid »

Insipid - utterly lacking in intelligence or depth; foolish.
They insisted upon watching an insipid show about a singing monkey.
Also, “flat; lacking character”. Found in a compleatly unrelated context. Synonym: vapid (which also is a terrific word of the day!)

Skyltar »

Aftonbladets resesektion har en serie lustiga skyltar man lätt ödar en kvart på. Fast vad är det för kul med “Omväg“?