by David | Jul 30, 2014 | reading & writing
I was minding my own business, trying to sleep during a presentation at a marketing conference, and was abruptly awakened when the presenter said something like, “to prevent those people from receiving this email, you would disclude them on this...
by David | Jul 16, 2014 | reading & writing
I’d been using the word festooned for some time – this is the third blog post using it – probably because it’s fun to say, but I recently discovered there’s a noun, festoon, lurking behind that fun verb. So sayeth wikipedia: A Festoon...
by David | Jul 2, 2014 | media, reading & writing, technology
I was reading an ebook on my phone (soon I’ll give in and just say, “I was reading a book”) and got to a part that included a recipe. I wasn’t about the actually try to prepare it, not least because I was on the train at the time, so I...
by David | Mar 26, 2014 | reading & writing
I was going to write a long screed in defense of the idea of satisficing, but this is probably enough to make my point. Satisfice is a portmanteau of satisfy and suffice, and I’m almost always satisfied with a good portmanteau. By contrast, a maximizer would be...
by David | Feb 26, 2014 | culture, reading & writing
Via a random illustrated meme, I became aware of the term librocubicularist, meaning somebody who reads in bed. And I love the -ist ending that implies that reading in bed is not just something you do from time to time but something that you do regularly and with...
by David | Feb 24, 2014 | culture, design, media, reading & writing
Finger firmly fixed on the pulse of SciFi fandom, io9 asks, “Are bookshelves becoming obsolete?” Seems to me the question is more, “are paper books on their way out?” and I can dispense with that questions quickly with a simple,...
