In an announcement that will surely send shockwaves through the the technology industry, Sun Microsystems has revealed that they have just purchased Hewlett & Packard! You can find the full announcement at the Sun Blog!
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Continue reading →: 9 Weird Words That Amuse Me
The English language is full of weird or interesting words describing minuscule or gigantic occurrences. Some are remarkably specific and some are obtuse. Enough with the intro! Onto the list!
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Defenestrate: I love this verb. It means to throw out a window. With only one more syllable you could just say “thrown out a window”.
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Agnomen: It’s another name for a nickname. The mind boggles… Personally I just like the way it rolls off my tongue. Plus it sounds like a name for an evil wizard.
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Crapulous: Describing one who ingests to much food or alcohol. A specific word that has been simplified to have a more general meaning. Here I thought that crap was just slang for fecal matter.
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Doppelganger: This is another one of those words that is just fun to say. Try it. Now try it again. See? A doppelganger refers someone or something that resembles a person in some way. Also if the word is used in literature the doppelganger is always evil.
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Ambergris: Such a lovely word. Ambergris is a product used in expensive perfumes. People have described Ambergris’s raw scent as sweet and earthy. It’s so rare that just a gram of it is worth 20$. So now what is this Ambergris you ask? Simply put its whale vomit.
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Deus Ex Machina: This one gets special mention because for the longest time I pronounced the “Deus” part like “moose”. Turns out you pronounce it like “day us”. Deus Ex Machina refers to an improbable quick solution to a current arduous plot.
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Frabjous: Random fact about me. I can recite “The Jabberwocky” from memory. Ask me some time. I even have voices and hand gestures for it. Anywho, frabjous means joyful, wonderful, great, or any other positive word. Most commonly uttered as “Oh frabjous day!” while chortling with joy. The word and many more were penned by Lewis Carroll of “Alice in Wonderland” fame.
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Fop: A fop was the middle ages version of a metrosexual. It describes a vain man who is mainly concerned with his clothing and appearance. The word is even funnier in its adjective form, foppish.
- Hemidemisemiquaver: A musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note. There is absolutely nothing funny about this whatsoever.
Now that you’ve finished reading this you might ask yourself, “Why is this list here?” Well its rather simple really. Its for a contest. Plus it was pretty fun to come up with weird words. Heres a link to the contest if you’d like to try your hand at it. Hurry up though since it ends this Thursday.
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Continue reading →: Vibram Five Fingers: Shoes With Toes!
I just heard about the Vibram FiveFingers Shoes. After a little bit of searching on the ol’ Google I came across some more info on them.
The legend of Fivefingers goes that Marco Bramani, grandson of the founder of Vibram—the Italian shoe-sole company responsible for that elongated yellow octagon on the bottom of your hiking boots—asked his grandfather’s successors to design shoes that would allow him to retain the sensation of traipsing barefoot on his sailboat while boosting his traction and protecting his toes from deckside hazards. Eighteen months later, Fivefingers was born.
Via ID Online
The shoes are also gaining popularity among the barefoot running crowd. One reviewer had this to say about the shoes.
Get this, I did (ran) about 15 minutes on pavement and 15 minutes on dirt, gravel and mud trails. During the trail run, I could feel the ground – I could even feel the texture of sand. And nothing hurt.
That just sounds amazingly cool, spiffy if you were so inclined. The shoes are selling for 70$ plus S&H. Although some of the colors appear to be out of stock until September. This shortage includes the black colored size 11s 😦
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Continue reading →: 1/12th Scale Gundam Model
When you think about it this isn’t any geekier than those life size Super-Man models that are sold at Sharper Image. At least the Gundam has 15 points of articulation. You can purchase a Gundam of your very own for the cheap cheap price of 350,000 yen, which converts to roughly 3050.00 US dollars. This certainly manages to out geek the Stormtrooper armor at any rate.
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Here’s the Wikipedia page explaining way more that you want to know about Gundams.
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Continue reading →: If you thought the US DMV was bad…
If you thought the DMV in the US was a horrible tortuous proccess, you should read about the process in China.
Sounds like fun. I wonder why China hates ballpoints.
Source: Whiteboard Infinity
