Geez.

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Sep 302008

I just realized that I haven’t blogged with real content for quite a while (copypasta doesn’t count). I’ve just been tired to put real content up lately…

Horoscope + Rant

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Sep 262008

Friday, September 26

Things might really get under your skin today, dear Taurus. It might be a result of someone moving too slow for your taste or a criticism that is made. Perhaps it will have to do with a lack of patience with yourself. Regardless of the cause, consider taking as many breaks throughout the day as it takes to keep your temper in check. It can be too easy to blurt something out that you wind up regretting later. Take things as slow and easy as possible today.

That’s real promising. Luckily it’s a short day for me.

Also, Dear Timmy’s:

Because it’s your children’s day or something like that, your restaurant was full. I stood in line for 15 minutes so I could get my overpriced sandwich and a tea. However, about five people from cash, I realized you had a sign flat on the counter where no one can see it that said that debit and credit was down. Please put something in the window to inform people so they don’t waste their time like I did.

Thank you, though, for forcing me to have a healthy breakfast at work.

No love,

- Cas

Obscure Words

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Sep 252008

Writing prompt: use as many of these words in your writing as you can.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.
20080925.woldwords25/BNStory/International/home

Abstergent: Cleansing or scouring.
Agrestic: Rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.
Apodeictic: Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration.
Caducity: Perishableness; senility.
Caliginosity: Dimness; darkness.
Compossible: Possible in coexistence with something else.
Embrangle: To confuse or entangle.
Exuviate: To shed (a skin or similar outer covering).
Fatidical: Prophetic.
Fubsy: Short and stout; squat.
Griseous: Streaked or mixed with grey; somewhat grey.
Malison: A curse.
Mansuetude: Gentleness or mildness.
Muliebrity: The condition of being a woman.
Niddering: Cowardly.
Nitid: Bright; glistening
Olid: Foul-smelling.
Oppugnant: Combative, antagonistic, or contrary.
Periapt: A charm or amulet.
Recrement: Waste matter; refuse.
Roborant: Tending to fortify.
Skirr: A whirring sound, as of the wings of birds in flight.
Vaticinate: To foretell; prophesy.
Vilipend: To treat or regard with contempt.

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Sep 252008

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.
20080925.woldwords25/BNStory/International/home

Some of the words threatened with expulsion from the British edition of the Collins English Dictionary.

Abstergent: Cleansing or scouring.
Agrestic: Rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.
Apodeictic: Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration.
Caducity: Perishableness; senility.
Caliginosity: Dimness; darkness.
Compossible: Possible in coexistence with something else.
Embrangle: To confuse or entangle.
Exuviate: To shed (a skin or similar outer covering).
Fatidical: Prophetic.
Fubsy: Short and stout; squat.
Griseous: Streaked or mixed with grey; somewhat grey.
Malison: A curse.
Mansuetude: Gentleness or mildness.
Muliebrity: The condition of being a woman.
Niddering: Cowardly.
Nitid: Bright; glistening
Olid: Foul-smelling.
Oppugnant: Combative, antagonistic, or contrary.
Periapt: A charm or amulet.
Recrement: Waste matter; refuse.
Roborant: Tending to fortify.
Skirr: A whirring sound, as of the wings of birds in flight.
Vaticinate: To foretell; prophesy.
Vilipend: To treat or regard with contempt.

Everyone who’s played D&D knows what a periapt is…

Of all the...

Cas Has a Moment of Crisis, Writing 3 Responses »
Sep 222008

So apparently the Edmonton NaNoWriMo group has a “theme” for this year’s NaNo. In order to spur inter-region competition, they’re going to… wait for it…

They’re going to sort us into “houses”.

That’s right. This year, for the first time ever, the Edmowrimos will be sorted into four Houses. [...] This is a concept that was popularized by the Harry Potter series, but dates back much further than that in the British school system. The Houses of the Edmowrimos will compete against one another in word wars, fundraising challenges, and other exciting events throughout the month. If you’re motivated by the idea of challenging a stranger in another city, imagine how motivating challenging someone sitting across the room from you will be! We’ll have contests at each write-in to see which house can write the most, month-long challenges to see which house has the highest word count, and fundraising competitions to see which house can raise the most money for the Edmowrimos and NaNoWriMo Headquarters! This year HQ is debuting an inter-region challenge for fundraising, so we’ll be competing as a group to prove the eminent worthiness of the Edmowrimos. After all, school pride is greater than House pride!

So wait. They want us to raise money, too? Donations are supposed to be voluntary. I gave $25 last year and planned to do so again, but I don’t want to if they’re going to be this pushy.

Each house will be led by an ML – Sarah, Karen, Patrick, and Denton, our special guest Head of House. You will be sorted in a special ceremony at the Kick-Off (or at subsequent events if you can’t make the kick-off party) into one of our four houses: Exclamation Mark House, Question Mark House, Ellipsis House, or Parentheses House. Or, as we prefer to call it, House! House? House… and (House).

Not only can I not make the kick-off, but I never intended to. And the “house names” are all sorts of stupid.

I have a hard time getting people to take NaNoWriMo seriously (“You’re writing a book but not publishing?”), and this is just making it worse.

Once the NaNoWriMo page is back to normal, I’m going to remove my affiliation to Edmonton and go rogue.

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