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Green water mess? Try green mountain mess:
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20070309_1.htm
I love all the new hacks for voice recognition but I fear this means the end of spelling as we know it. (At least in the Mahavi Desert.)
I prefer the Gobi myself, nobody ever gets out of there alive.
Unles you have a kamuel. lol
Just took a quick look at the ToS for Jotts. While they won’t stake a claim to any content you transfer to the service, they do reserve the right to read it for pretty much any reason they choose. Be warned.
They’ll also shoot ads at you “related to the content of your jotts.” God I hate that.
No! It’s Mahavi Dessert, isn’t it? Spelling is going down the drain faster than yesterday’s French train. I think IM-speak isn’t helping as its use is creeping over into everyday written documents and many of today’s students actually thinking it is acceptable. Regular use of ‘gotta’, ‘shoulda’, ‘woulda’ etc is also going uncorrected more and more often. To top it off, if an error is pointed out to someone, we are said to be pedantic (substitute more common word if desired). How can this be reversed?
My son got another 10/10 on his last spelling quiz. His Grade 1 teacher wrote “Congradulations!” next to the score. My wife (also a teacher) said “Leave it alone” when I wanted to indicate the necessary correction. What does that say?
And now back to the show:
I too am glad the Beatles were British! Now; what are the Rolling Stones considered?
I gotta tell ya, youz shoulda took a look see in the book w/all thems words that lets you know how to spell cause you woulda fownd these as a substitoot for pedantic:
scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finicky, dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist, casuistic, casuistical, sophistic, sophistical, captious, hair-splitting, quibbling, nitpicking, persnickety.
btw, thanks for yestardays speling leson!
NP! Ooopps, I mean; No Problem!
Actually I’ve been referred to as a ‘snob’ (nicely though) during a dinner with friends because I kept defending ‘proper grammar’ and this in the faces of 5/6 university grads; 2 with English majors! Ya, I ain’t got one, wutz it 2 ya?
If we don’t adhere to some form of a language baseline we’ll end up descending into anarchy and all Hell will break loose; and this from a guy promoting online video communications! But at least I make an effort to use proper spelling. Which brings the question: What is ‘proper’? Kids (and more and more adults) today already argue that IM-speak is proper. Well, I say if it ain’t in the dikshunary it ain’t proper.
PS: the onboard spell checker doesn’t flag “ain’t”! Go figure.
OMFGoodness, we’ve already descended into anarchy and Hell has broken loose! As that great Canadian band with the mis-spelled name said “You tell me it’s the institution, Well, you know, You better free your mind instead.” So leave the language baseline anal-nazi talk to the Quebecois, my baseline is Urban Dictionary. Obladi Oblada, I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday. I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob. Yellow matter custard, Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess, Semolina pilchard, Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna. Expert textpert, let my freak flag fly!
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
Dig the flag!
Smoke the flag!
(does it have any sticky stuff on one end? In other words, is it rollable?)
It’s 100% Cannadia Sativa, pure maple leaf rag. These Americans love it.
Man, that’s scary, I just posted about them…do you have a nano-probe in my mind Nab?
I’m not safe here anymore….!
All of us here are just part of your lucid dream.
So where\’s Cate Blanchette?
Cate, is that really you?
I\’ve died and gone to heaven…thanks C the Canadian.. have her phone number by chance?
B-Man, I hear you want my number? Your dream vibes are weak and thus my apparition tiny; please try again first!
Mick Jagger has seen 5 UFOs over the last 3 decades and one of his homes is equipped with a UFO detector, whatever that means…(twilight zone music please) yes the acid flashbacks are still kickin in….
… A jumping jack flash passes gas, gas, gas!
I thought the last line was funny….
a jumping jack flash…passes….oh, forget it!
Since you can’t buy Rocketboom t-shirts here, may I recommend you go here: http://www.rockets.com
Good one! If we could just find out which RB design won we could at least decide whether to spend the $12 elsewhere or hang in there a bit longer for the “Grand Unveiling”.
Stand by, the printer is on the run. THREE new shirts (incl limited edition), a NYC-sytle RB hoodie, a DVD, keychain and video ipod with engraving (inc. archives) all go on sale this Monday, rain or shine.
Yay for RB! Thanx Drew! Just a t-shirt would have been fine but OK.
How does one buy?
Well, you take that small rectangular piece of plastic with all the #’s on it & stick it into the DVD slot on your computer, make sure you have the magnetic strip facing down, that ought to work!
Hey, want me to tell your fortune? Just give me those numbers, and I’ll predict your future!
RB beach towels, underwear, snowboards, skateboards, toothpicks, toothbrushes, RB printed toilet tissue –(sorry)…shower curtains, and DRUM ROLL…how about we make
ROCKETBOOM: THE MOVIE
Casual Friday showed the talent behind RB…we plain folk could submit scripts or collaborate and turn ROCKETBOOM: THE MOVIE into an artsy-beesy-exhibition style video that’ll take the world by storm and win kudos or pretzels at the Sundance Film Fest, where we’ll eat hotdogs with that blonde guy–the horse whisper.
Drew, Joanne…et al…how about it?
ROCKETBOOM: THE MOVIE
(we can exhibit it around the world)
Speaking of green, the ice has gone out of the Tanana River and all us squirrels here on the ranch are waiting for green up. Then the many shades of green will return to our boreal forest.
Is it March 17th or did I miss something here? 4 leaf clovers, green water, Irish music…”hey, that’s my last box of Lucky Charms, don’t eat them all”
Watermelon art, pumpkin art, veggie art….soooo cool. I tried my pressure washer on the watermelon, didn’t work.
later people
Thirteenth!!!
I assume RB got paid for the Jott placement?
Nope, never spoke with anyone from there, we just found out about it while surfing around. We have never sold our editorial to anyone for any price. No product placement in Rocketboom.
Sorry I missed KAM DAY yesterday. Quite a b-uzzzzy day. Like today. Say. K.
Loved the Hand Chair. Do you make a Finger Chair as well…you know which finger.
Now we have jott speech. Hmmm, I have an idea, why not just leave a voicemail…
Anyone familiar with The Rapture?
That’s when all good Christains get swept away from evil Earth before doomsday.
Well….according to one source…remember the disappearing bees?
Well, the bees have been the first to be rapturized.
The rest of us get pasturized.
jot that down…or send yourself a voicemail…
Didn’t miss much. I don’t make finger chairs, I made a thumb chair once though, used to sit on it while I was hitchhiking.
This is an old old joke but I can’t resist.
Milkman gets a request from a woman on his route for 10 gallons of extra milk. He asks her why she wants so much & she replies “It’s for my milk bath to soften my skin” He asks her “You want it pasturized?” “No, just up to my boobs” she says. (groan)
A 90-year old man goes to the doc because he’s oversexed. He says “Doc, I want to lower it.” The doc responds, “But sex is all in your head” To which the old man replies, “I know, which is why I want to lower it!”
ta da!
It was a revelation to me see how quickly we were able to watch RB on Andy\’s phone. I will have to get a video capable phone now!
I’m glad you had a revelation Jonny. Those are nice to come by from time to time. Is RB faster on a phone? Or did you find yourself faster while able to watch RB on Andy’s phone?
I find using phones for phone calls so overrated.
Welcome to the it’s more quickly world on a phone and thank you for taking the time, however fast it turned out to be.
Phone calls are so over-rated?
but life is a long and winding road…so who knows….thank God the B-eatles were B-ritish)
People would kill to have a conversation with you Jo.
That British accent, the inflection of wit and whimsy…plus phone calls are one 0n one. Something that is lacking in today’s twittering world. No? Yes…bien sure, ma cherie! (I know you’re not my cherry, cherie
I do hope this isn’t a trend towards phoning in your Rocketbooms, Joanne…!
That million dollar thing – for a documentary there’s very little ‘documentary’ about it and an awful lot of random cut shots of people handing over cash. Is the alternate filming title “How many suckers will pay me to point a camera at them”? I only mention it because it’s at least the second time it’s appeared on RB and I’m not so sure it’s that meritorious a venture as to deserve the mentions? Diplomatically speaking.
The guy\’s a charlatan hack!
I kind of like the mentions. It’s a silly project, and I probably wouldn’t follow it regularly, but I don’t mind Joanne keeping up with it. I’m going to kick myself if this guy does make a million dollars though.. I wish I had thought of it.
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Hello I thought I would leave some numbers for you
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1/bns1201/Untitled-1-2.jpg
The standard English that some people would like to mummify is derived from invaders tongues, slang, sport, technological and medical words, Latin etc., etc., etc..
As a word becomes accepted as common usage it eventually finds its way into Webster’s and the OED.
While I am also tempted to rigidly support the rules, I also know that it’s futile. Language is ever-changing; words come and words go in poetic, dynamic and organic shifts from decade to decade.
You’re hot.
I know!
Hot is the new cool.
Regarding cell phones: In light of the recent devastations of bee colonies (which you alluded to back on March 5), and later information that suggest that cell phone signals may be playing a role, I wonder if it might not be ecologically wise to minimize cell phone useage until the cause of colony collapse disorder is definitively determined. This may seem like a radical step given the extremely preliminary data available, but the enormous stakes involved suggest that a “guilty until proven innocent” approach is not out of line.
Found 7,000 bees:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/01/ap/strange/main2750757.shtml
Maybee they were making their annual honey donation.
The story didn\’t mention they were all B+ve…
….and a couple of them fainted…when they saw the honey bag.
…or was it waffles.
Mojove phone booth?
Nice to see it on RB
But honestly it was one of the 1st sites
I came across my first year on the web.
I called the both religiously
night after night and talked with some great
folks who made the mecca.
Old but again, nice to see on RB
It is a great story
http://www.deuceofclubs.com/moj/mojave1.htm
Please also remember to visit CardHouse.com
Deuce split off shortly after the Mojove Incident.