Browsing the blog archives for December, 2009
2009 has come and is almost gone. This decade has come and gone, and despite the year and decade not even being over yet, the best of and worst of lists are already appearing in full force. Maybe it’s my ability to procrastinate or maybe it’s my nondesire to think about the future at a [...]
November first, the clock read when Mia woke up. The atmosphere was oddly still as she turned on her laptop and looked at where she had left off, all five hundred thirty words that she had written. So much for writing the daily quota before going to bed. Ten o’clock, the clock read. Mia walked [...]
I’ve written about trending topics on Twitter before. I’ve even made fun of aforementioned trending topics. Today the grammarians may have made a comeback.
Maybe.
Then The Oatmeal posted a comic called Ten Words You Need To Stop Misspelling. I cheered–even more so when “Stop Misspelling” (spelled correctly!) began to trend in the afternoon.
This makes me wonder: [...]
As Mia pushed the door open, she saw that even more novelists were typing furiously as midnight started in their area. Still more novelists had blue bars over their heads, signalling the start of NaNo in their time zone, and Mia wondered what would happen if she started typing before midnight. She opened her laptop [...]
In another fit of unemployment, I inventoried my inboxes: my main inbox, the one mentioned on my contact form, and another inbox that I use to pretend that I’m an adult. There is no mention of sushi or writing in this address, and everything from this inbox forwards to my main inbox, where it is [...]
I’ve discussed the wonders of autocomplete before. But have you ever considered what happens if you put in something besides a letter? Let’s experiment.
“recipe”: Suggested results include recipes (obvious), recipezaar, recipes for kids, recipes for chicken, ground beef, and pork chops, and interestingly, recipes for kids. This one’s not crazy, but it certainly stands out.
“milk”: [...]
Mia looked around the forums. In some parts of the world, it was already November first, and she watched as some Wrimos sat around the website, laptops in hand, writing away. Some had muses and characters at their sides. Others had plot bunnies nibbling their feet. Mia, on the other hand, looked at the big [...]
Christmas was fun when I was a kid. My brother and I would stare at the presents under the tree, trying to see through the boxes and figure out what wonders were contained inside. Our parents would tell us to be good because if we didn’t, Santa wouldn’t bring us anything. The real fun began [...]
There were more signs around Wrimonia now, and the countdowns that Mia passed on the way from forum to forum told her that less than twenty-four hours remained until the beginning of NaNoWriMo. She stopped for a moment on her way out of the Plot Doctoring forum and looked around
Wrimos of all sorts walked around, [...]
Some days I wonder about the caliber of people in the world. Most days I do, actually. But when #youknowyourfat became a popular topic on Twitter this afternoon (or a trending topic, as those who are Twitter-hip call those popular topics), I groaned. Really, Twitter populace? Did the person who started this topic even think [...]