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3 September, 2010 (14:13) | Ramblings

WTF am i missing here? I went to dictionary.com, typed in “bousy” and it said it wasn’t a word. Then i googled for “bousy” and it came up with a result on dictionary.com

WTF

I would like to build something

3 September, 2010 (12:00) | Top 10

Here are the top 10 Precarious Building according to TIME.  I’m particularly fascinated with the Sutyagin House, Archangel, Russia, because when I look at all these buildings, I think about how they were built and how they got the materials to where they ended up. Modern structures are easy to fabricate when you have a bunch of heavy equipment and cranes and such. When your building is on a crazy rock formation, or you’re doing it all by yourself, that’s truly impressive.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1995297_1995295_1995294,00.html

What a coinky dink

1 September, 2010 (12:00) | Pittsburgh

When you use google earth, the red dot indicating the Hill District is on my house.  Weird.  How appropriate that I’m the ambassador now.  :)

http://goo.gl/maps/OwT1

Hall’s Rules of Social Order #234

30 August, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

Organized dancing has an expiration date.  Ballroom and other styles of dancing are perfectly acceptable, what I’m talking about is doing dance recitals and creating a routine to a song.  Here’s a graphical aid.

Settlers of Catan in LEGO

27 August, 2010 (12:00) | Creations with LEGO© bricks

I realize that I won’t be able to blog frequently on my own LEGO creations, so I’ll showcase the works of other people as well. This one was displayed at Brickfest by Suzanne Rich

Settlers of Catan in LEGO

It’s Give or Take

25 August, 2010 (12:00) | Wax Poetic

Give someone a shove,
and they take flight.
Give one some love,
and they take your night.

Take someone’s breath away,
and they give you love.
Take the time in a day,
and they give answers from above.

Hall’s Rules of Social order #66

23 August, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

The Driver is the authority on music. He or she may delegate to passengers at their will.

Pour some shook up ramen

20 August, 2010 (12:00) | Geeked Out

A malapropism (AKA dogberryism or acyrologia) is a phrase or word that can substitute to sound like another word phrase. Just like when you have some misheard song lyrics (These are called mondegreens btw), usually these have funny stories if they come up in real life situations. Here are a few examples of ones I’ve come across:

While on a tour at a winery, the tour guide was showing the different sizes of bottles and what they are called and used for. He pointed to a very large one and I swore he said, “This one is the annihilator.” What he really said was, “This one is the nine liter.”

Mahatma Gandhi walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet
became quite thick and hard. He also was quite a spiritual person.
Even when he was not on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and
became quite thin and frail. Due to this diet, he wound up with very
bad breath. Therefore, he came to be known as a . . .

Super calloused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis.

Do you have any examples of #phrases that sound like other phrases?

Going to a lake of fire to fry

18 August, 2010 (12:00) | Poll the People

Is it rude to cut steak all up before you eat it?

Is it rude to cut all your steak before eating it?

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Hall’s Rules of Social Order #103

16 August, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

The only time it’s acceptable to wear a band’s t-shirt to the same band’s concert is if you’re in the band.




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