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hi nice lists.
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I saw your citation for winsome from the Chris Smither song. I love that song. Nice reference.
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Are you, perhaps, teaching in China or Korea?
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So I see a reference to wordie on a Lockergnome list I subscribe to, and it says to see edwardvielmetti's list as a good example of what's out there. Hmm, I know an edward vielmetti, think I, so over I come to see yooper, which cinches it.
Nice list of words, indeed. Good to hear (and see) you again.
Your old chess playing pal,
Pat Clancey
edwardvielmetti commented on the word juju
variously "good juju" or "bad juju"; cf. mojo.
Oct 18, 2008
edwardvielmetti commented on the word nado
for tornado
Mar 15, 2008
edwardvielmetti commented on the word haircut contagion
A fall in value in assets in a hedge fund provokes a margin call, forcing the fund to sell assets to bring leverage back to its initial level. However, the lender now imposes a higher margin, or "haircut", as the assets are now riskier. This in turn forces further borrowing and further sales.
Mar 10, 2008
edwardvielmetti commented on the word unarmed
compare disarmed, disarming
Mar 9, 2008
edwardvielmetti commented on the word proffreader
from digital-text mailing list:
Klaus Graf recently used a new but potentially very useful word, probably by mistake, "proffread". I am going to use this word to mean "reading by academics". Perhaps I should issue a version of each of my books, full of mistakes, specially for proffreaders, to keep them happy.
Dec 16, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word structuration
http://www.religiousworlds.com/text/ag-struct.html
Dec 14, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word djangonaut
"So we have another Djangonaut in Prague that is travelling around
Europe and asked if he could meetup with other Django users "
http://groups.google.com/group/django-cs/browse_thread/thread/82b761c13d17dab
Dec 4, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word micropolis
Granbury, Texas, Isn't a Rural Town: It's a 'Micropolis' Census Bureau Adopts Term For Main Street America, And Marketers Take Note Beans, Ribs and Starbucks
WSJ 2004
Dec 3, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word omphaloskeptic
Steven Goldstein, formerly nsf Program Officer for International Networking, was the primary nsf contact for nordunet for many years. In his view, nordunet in the early 1990s was clearly
distinguished from other European networks: “nordunet seemed to be the only networking organization in Europe that understood the real world. The rest of Europe at the time was mired in
omphaloskeptic network protocol politics over the osi suite, ptt monopolistic intransigence, and hierarchic government sponsor control. I can recall one nordunet meeting in Helsinki where one
of the speakers kept referring to ‘nordunet and Europe’ – down there, pointing as if there were a map on the whiteboard – as if they were very separate and distinct entities.�?
The History of Nordunet.
Nov 30, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word unemplloyd
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071118/ap_on_sp_co_ne/fbc_michigan_carr
"carr out as michigan coach"
Nov 19, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the list foodie-wordies
My son Saul says: "This is making me hungry".
Nov 17, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word martini luge
ice sculpture with a channel carved for pouring alcohol through it to make it very, very cold.
Nov 10, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word roflcopter
In Soviet Russia, the roflcopter laughs at you.
Nov 10, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word 《♜�?☣》
you're going to the top floor of the chemistry building to make some quiet phone calls?
Nov 5, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word parochial altruism
The Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War , Science
Excerpts: Altruism - benefiting fellow group members at a cost to oneself
- and parochialism - hostility toward individuals not of one's own ethnic,
racial, or other group - are common human behaviors. The intersection of
the two - which we term "parochial altruism" - is puzzling from an
evolutionary perspective because altruistic or parochial behavior reduces
one's payoffs by comparison to what one would gain by eschewing these
behaviors. But parochial altruism could have evolved if parochialism
promoted intergroup hostilities and the combination of altruism and
parochialism contributed to success in these conflicts.
* 35 The Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War, Jung-Kyoo Choi ,
Samuel Bowles, 07/10/26, Science : 636-640.
Nov 5, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word �?�
not in the big character set!
in the little character set it's �?�
the name is floral heart
Nov 2, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word fleur-de-lys
is that this?
floral heart �?�
Nov 2, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word crufty
When referring to URLs, 'cruft' is the parts which are only relevant or meaningful to the people who created the site, such as implementation details of the computer system which serves the page. Examples of URL cruft include file extensions such as .php or .html, and internal organisational details such as /public/ or /~users/john/work/drafts/ (see also Clean URLs).
Oct 31, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word cruftless permalinks
see also crufty
Oct 31, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word cruftless permalinks
For cruftless permalinks, you must use mod_rewrite, and IIS (common on Windows servers) does not support mod_rewrite. If you are using Apache 2.0.54, on Windows, mod_rewrite may work (provided it is enabled in apache\conf\httpd.conf).
Oct 31, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word ♖☞
see towers open fire
Oct 31, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word papeles
Directed by Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People), this science-fiction thriller presents the story of a doomed love affair set in the near future. Here, privileged classes live and work inside cities; while non-citizens are left to eek out a miserable existence outside the city walls in vast deserts. No one may leave their designated zones without special visas known as “papeles.�? William Geld (played by Tim Robbins) is a Seattle investigator sent to Shanghai to ferret out the culprit responsible for producing fraudulent papels. During his investigation, William meets Maria Gonzalez (played by Samantha Morton), a woman with whom he has a passionate affair that leads him to break one of the society’s most severe laws – Code 46. 93 Minutes
Oct 31, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word twopointopian
Did you catch that? Listen closely - First she says twopointopians are “cultists who don’t like disagreement�? and then, when I disagree with her, she changes tactics and says “the twopointopians don’t like it her blog post because it’s critical.�?
(David King)
Oct 30, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word calculor
In the final Greatwinter book the emerging technology is zapped by Mirrorsun, EMP-style. This forces fallback to the old human powered/slave conscript calculors full of scientists and mathematicians.
Oct 30, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word sofa pillows
from sopapillas
Oct 30, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word arbcamp
not barcamp
Oct 28, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word bee space
Langstroth's crucial insight -- "I could scarcely refrain from shouting 'Eureka!' in the open streets," he wrote of the moment of revelation -- was the concept of "bee space." He realized that while honeybees will seal up passageways that are either too large or too small, they will leave open passages that are just the right size to allow a bee to pass through comfortably. Langstroth determined that if frames were placed at this "bee-space" interval of three-eighths of an inch, bees would build honeycomb that could be lifted from the hive, rather than, as was the practice up to that point, sliced or hacked out of it.
(via Jason Kottke)
Oct 27, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word flashconf
flash mob + conference
Oct 26, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word dotcomrade
I was looking at the Urban Dictionary and found a great word that communicates what many young people are experiencing. Many people in today’s culture have long distance friendships through the internet. The word that is being used for this is “dotcomrade.�? It means to have an acquaintance or someone that you chat with but have never actually met. Basically digital friendships! So who’s your dotcomrade?
Oct 26, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word dotcomrade
As one gamer told a Stanford University researcher, in “real life ... we have little reliance on others and individuals are rarely thrown into life-or-death situations.�? These games attempt to simulate those missed experiences which require mutual trust for survival. In real life, we may not have comrades-in-arms, but online we can have “dotcomrades�?—friends to whom we pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor (virtually, that is).
Oct 26, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word hedgetard
No word on which hedgetards are involved but again let me say: Faceberg, you are some kind of wonderful. I mean it. Wow. Much love. (Fake Steve Jobs commenting on the Facebook deals of the day.)
Oct 25, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word placelessness
Wow. Another new term: Placelessness = designing applications without knowing the physical context of the users. (Dan Brown, twitter)
Oct 24, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word cold reboot
The future is here! I think I have to cold reboot the toaster because the software reset isn't working. (Mike Kuniavsky, twitter)
Oct 24, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word dotcomrade
as noted by Nicole Burguess on Urban Dictionary.
Oct 24, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word litost
"Litost is an untranslatable Czech word. Its first syllable, which is long and stressed, sounds like the wail of an abandoned dog. As for the meaning of this word, I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it difficult to imagine how anyone can understand the human soul without it."
- Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
Oct 24, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word pseudoplasmodium
The identical amoebas within this pseudoplasmodium – or slug – begin to differentiate and take on specialized roles.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=901
Oct 23, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word locative art
from wm gibson spook country.
see also locative, neogeography
Oct 23, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word pyrogeography
Biogeographer and remote sensing specialist Stephen Yool runs the Pyrogeography Research Laboratory (PRL). The PRL specializes in the biogeography of wildfire - pyrogeography, to coin a term.
Oct 23, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word pyrography
Pyrography is the art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object. (wikipedia)
Oct 23, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word social shaping
Steady at number 2 is Social Shaping, although not a new term by any means it crops up a lot in papers and grant applications at the moment. In short the term can be linked back to MacKenzie and Wajcman's 1985 publication 'The Social Shaping of Technology' where they state that the characteristics of a society play a major part in deciding which technologies are adopted.
Oct 22, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word robodoughnut
see citation at robodonut.
Oct 22, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word robodonut
"punk rock robodoughnuts in the market!!!! they double bag them 'cause the grease will eat through just one bag. delicious"
Oct 22, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word winsome
Chris Smither's song "Winsome Smile", last stanza:
Time will wound all heels
And it ain’t pretty
With any luck at all
She’ll find some dope that you can pity
Your loss is measured in illusions
And your gain is all in bittersweet intelligence
And your winsome smile will lose some of its innocence
Your winsome smile
Your winsome smile will lose some of its innocence
Oct 22, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word strozzapreti
ah, sorry - should have footnoted my comment @chained_bear - that was a quote from the Cook's Thesaurus.
Oct 22, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word steampunk
Half the excitement about the online steampunk revival seems to source from the fact that it's only been done once before. That's what it comes to, in the anachronesis condition: it's exciting because it's only a bit old.
Warren Ellis,
http://suicidegirls.com/news/culture/22516/
Oct 21, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word anachronesis
Partly that, maybe? Partly because we're in Reynolds' "anachronesis" -- living in a time of constant, delusional recursion, in a limbo of a dozen different pasts. Re-enactment, like living as a medieval soldier for a never-ending Renaissance Faire. Being Lenny Kravitz. Being the White Stripes. Record collection bands. People who like Amy Winehouse.
http://suicidegirls.com/news/culture/22516/
Oct 21, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word freundesnetzwerk
Am Markt gibt es viele sogenannte "Freundesnetzwerke", gegen die sich mapmyriends behaupten möchte. Einen wichtigen Beitrag soll dazu die Integration von Google Maps beitragen. Jeder Nutzer hat die Möglichkeit, seinen aktuellen geographischen Standort (sein Wohnort, sein Urlaubsdomizil, ...) als Adresse bei mapmyfriends zu hinterlegen.
(openpr)
see social network, social graph
Oct 21, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word vaguery
"Vaguery is the primary tool of songwriters," Frey said. " 'I've seen fire and I've seen rain.' What the hell does that mean? But it works, it means whatever the listener wants it to mean."
http://www.eaglesfans.com/info/birdwatching.htm
Oct 21, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word scanning bee
On December 18th ,1999, residents of the Letcher County community of Blackey brought over 100 family photographs for scanning to the C.B. Caudill Store and History Center on Route 7 in Blackey for the first Appalachian Program Scanning Bee. Participants received color prints and enlargements of their images for a nominal fee, and the History Center and the Appalachian Archive kept digital copies of the images for their own collections. The event in Blackey was co-sponsored by the SKCTC Appalachian Program, the C.B. Caudill Store and History Center, and Appalshop.
http://www.secc.kctcs.edu/AppalachianCenter/Program/Public.htm#scanbees
Oct 20, 2007
edwardvielmetti commented on the word enspiming
mysticbob. @vaguery what a coincedental word. i'm enspiming things for a client right now. parking that word firmly my the lexicon (via twitter)
Oct 19, 2007