Illuminatea

This isn't aimed at anyone in particular whose blog I read, or who I know reads this blog, but more of a general comment prompted by the reaction of a friend who just received a huge Battlestar Galactica season 3 (the current season) spoiler on Digg: If you're talking about the current season of a TV show, or a recent book or movie, do ...

Words mean things. If I have one word such as "request" that functions both as a noun and a verb, and I have another word such as "ask" that is a synonym for it as a verb, that does not mean that "ask" is a synonym for "request" when used as a noun. "Ask" is not a noun, dammit. How lazy does one ...

I just discovered an amusing typo in a technical document. Instead of a section on prerequisites, it has a section on perquisites. Okay, so it's not earth-shaking, but I got a much-needed chuckle. Now off to brew a pot of peppermint herbal tea to share with my office mate. 

Whoa! I just now saw that folks on the LJ feed (possibly on the RSS feed) got to see the Firefly review I did all over again. Sorry about that; it wasn't intentional! (I was just fixing a couple of transcription errors that kept the hyperlink to Nick's blog from working...)