Do you resemble the any of the people in Twilight? (Except you would be older - because Twilight is about teenage vampire sex and angst. People who read this blog don’t have any of those.)
I’m not talking about blogging about Twilight, I’m talking about blogging in the Twilight.
I like it, and recommend Twilight computer use [...]
The Junk Drawer Blog is goofing off somewhere this week, but she left an assignment for her commenters. She stole a comment game from Comedy Plus.
The Junk Drawer Blog is fun, but whoooo boy, her commenters are just so vanilla, so white bread, so unimaginative.
Here’s how SHE explained the Comment Game.
It’s very simple. I start [...]
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When I was a young lad, my family’s best friends were Rubened. Ruby and Eddie Hodge. Rubened to every one. They even signed their Christmas cards Rubened. Eddie went to a business school to become an accountant and one of the requirements was exquisite handwriting. My Aunt Morna attended the same school and their handwriting [...]
Reading one of my favorite writing sites, Daily Writing Tips, I learned a new word that is just so appropo. Retronym.
It’s just such a perfect word for Baby Boomers who have seen so much change in technology.
Here’s the Oxford English Dictionary definition of retronym:
A neologism created for an existing object or concept because the [...]
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Of course you recognize this from the baby boomer at The Junk Drawer.
I wonder how young you can be and not recognize this? is this another bygone of the Baby Boomer era? Do they still have pencil sharpeners in schools? (BTW: it’s a picture of the blades of a pencil sharpener.) If they do have [...]
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Since I went of on my tirade against Craig Cobbs I was reminded of the time I played poker against the guy who invented the jagged line underneath missppelled words.
I had not spent a lot of time pondering who invented this ever-present highlight when I type in Microsoft Word. But somebody had to have the [...]
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As I sent emails to Boomer blogs suggesting that the Hey Jerrie video was something fun that should be shared with their readers, I ran into a total asshole.
Boomercafe.com is not a site I visit. But I had them in my blogroll and this seemed right up their alley. So here’s what I wrote:
I hope [...]
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Family Gems, not Family Jewels, you perv. Nancy used to go to an office where a Daniel and she hung out and collected a paycheck. Some work got done, but a lot of play got more doner. Daniel and his accomplice wrote a book which was just released. She and I read it while we [...]
