Learning to read is boring.
You might remember about 2 months ago I submitted a picture of Turbo after he got home from the vet the day after he raptured a disc…same one he raptured 3 years ago, had surgery and was doing really well…WELL take a look at him running around the back yard!! When he can get traction either in the yard or on the carpet, he is walking and running around! It kinda looks like his back end is “drunk” hehe but we are amazed that he has gained back some of his mobility back there!! This dog amazes me each and every day!!
His drunk booty is sooooo cute!!!! =]
I’m such a sucker for conceptual design. I adore the notion of someone’s imagination running wild, whimsical ideas scribbled and scratched out on paper, evolving to finally end up in a presentation room, sparking the imagination of those around them and prompting them to say, “Without a doubt. Yes. We must make that happen.”
Case and point, the ISM Parinee Ohm Tower, a proposed 30 story luxury condominium tower in Mumbai, India includes convenient glass-walled balcony pools. The tower was designed by Hong Kong-based James Law Cybertecture.
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This is a real mini golf course where every hole is shaped like either a penis or vagina….
What the hell…
curiosity counts: Questioningly: Words came in, marked for death...
Last Friday, we débuted “Questioningly,” a Twitter-based game show. In the first installment, we asked readers to propose a single English word that should be eliminated from the language. Suggestions were made via Facebook or Twitter, with the hashtag #tnyquestion. We started the contest with high hopes that readers would help to streamline the language, but the first wave of responses was not auspicious. One of the earliest words proposed was “Obama,” and then a little while later, “Washington.” But we were committed to a lexical purge rather than an electoral one. We moved on. The nominations piled up, in the hundreds and then the thousands. People who like words, as it turns out, also hate words. Superfluous adverbs took a beating: people unloaded on “literally” and “actually.” One woman challenged anyone to think of a case in which a deleted “actually” changed the meaning of the sentence. But there’s reason and then there’s rhythm, and “actually” is actually useful as a useless dactyl. Other entries were conceptual: a number of readers wondered if eliminating “hate” would eliminate hate. We checked. It would not. (Nor would “war.”) Words came in, marked for death. Popular objects of dissatisfaction included “awesome” and “epic” (pointlessly inflationary), “phlegm” and “fecund” (pointedly ugly), “bling” and “swag” (self-conscious slanguage), “impacted” and “efforting” (boardroom blather), “like” and “but” (only ever taking up space), and “irregardless” and “inflammable” (are they even words?). That was how the pack travelled, in the main.
