In which I share what I’ve used Google’s define1 function in the past seven days to better understand.

lemniscate
antipathy
sidereal
basque
DS3
SSP

I often look up words I’m familiar with just to make sure I really do know what they mean. Because sometimes? It turns out that I actually don’t.
Well, that’s not exactly true; I have extremely subtle inference [...]

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July 13th, 2007

In which there’s an example but no rules, really.
Okay, so last night Truck said Carne Estrada to me. I laughed my arse off.
Today, I said Angelina Joie de vivre to him. Which didn’t really impress him, but amused the hell out of me. (Morning isn’t my sharpest time of day.)
So it’s the household’s new word [...]

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May 10th, 2007

In which I quote my roommate, Truck.
Truck and I got stupidly drunk on vodka Tuesday night for no good reason, and probably solved all the problems of the universe in the course of our brilliant discussion… but naturally now we’ve forgotten most of it. I did write this down in the throes of my intoximacation, [...]

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February 13th, 2007

In which I show you what my reading has taught me.
1. catenary
2. Planck’s constant
3. belletrist
4. plethysmograph
5. haptics

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December 28th, 2005

Being a running list, 25-31:

coprophagous
half-life
cynosure

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December 5th, 2005

Being a running list, Dec. 4-10, 2005:

frottage
turducken
turgid

Yes, I have been reading smut as a matter of fact!

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September 21st, 2005

Being a running list, 18-24:
turbot
anomic
diktat
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August 17th, 2005

A running list, 14-20:
proprioceptive
kvelling
apposite
ullage
naff

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August 11th, 2005

A running list, 7-13:
schadenfreude
pederastic
dyspnea
somatization
cladistic
protista
mishugana
arced

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