More Compact Contractions?

A couple weeks ago I was thinking about how we use contractions. You know, like to shorten sentences and combine words to communicate thoughts faster. An example of the particular contraction I was thinking about would be, “I haven’t done that yet.” The word “haven’t” of course being “have not“. Now change the sentence to [...]

Craig’s List…. of Whores

Like every morning at work I was on Google News today reading various articles under the “Sci/Tech” section. I like learning about new gadgets and software and what’s going on with existing gadgets or software. I saw a headline about Craig’s List and people demanding that they remove their “Erotic Services” section. ….doesn’t the word [...]

Snow in Vegas!

This is something that doesn’t happen often at all and we’ve been lucky enough to have it happen a few days in a row. We don’t get much snow but we’ve been getting just enough to give us a nice change in scenery. I’m currently stuck at the office but here’s a quick little video [...]

CNN turns to Twitter and MySpace for their stories

So the other day I stopped by my moms house on my lunch break for a quick visit. She was on her computer looking up pictures for her new tattoo and had the TV on watching the news. I was talking to her and looking at her ideas and every once and a while I [...]